"The best I can say, is it seems there was an impressive level of talent there going to waste.

When M starts to be a bumbler, it seems to me a certain line has been crossed. I'm thinking of that opening scene in The Living Daylights in which M was too much of a dimwit to see an executive desk with loose papers might not be a good thing to have around during a parachute drop. Oh, DRAT!

Low, low, low point in the history of the M character.

You want comedy from M, I think Lee took it as far as it needed to go in The Man With The Golden Gun. Even there, the "oh, shut up, Q!" thing was taken a bit too far. But you ask me what I think, and I didn't like Brown's M. M is not a klutz. He is a fellow civil servant, a superior officer, and most importantly, he/she FROWNS UPON BOND'S SHENANIGANS.

"Now that Blofeld's dead, the least we can expect from you, is some good, solid, old-fashioned work!""