@Hobnobber said:

Can't overlook the Derek Flint flicks.

I liked the first Flint outing better. Then things declined. I actually preferred The President's Analyst over In Like Flint. The Helm series declined somewhat but then recovered with The Wrecking Crew. But neither series can match Connery's Bond--not that they were ever intended to.

@Hobnobber said:

Pretty sure the intent was parody to satirize Connery's Bond.

Duh.

Come to think, the Bond character sort of did as well over time.

Of course he did.

@Hobnobber said:

Pretty sure the intent was parody to satirize Connery's Bond.

Pretty sure PT 100 was alluding to that when he had said previously [emphasis mine]:

But neither series can match Connery's Bond--not that they were ever intended to.

Thus his curt reply.

@SixtiesHoldout said:

@Hobnobber said:

Pretty sure the intent was parody to satirize Connery's Bond.

Pretty sure PT 100 was alluding to that when he had said previously [emphasis mine]:

But neither series can match Connery's Bond--not that they were ever intended to.

Thus his curt reply.

Yes, to anyone familiar with the Bond series and the parodies thereof, it was obvious that: the parodies were parodies, even when they had plenty of drama and suspense; and the Bond series itself gradually became more tongue-in-cheek, and even occasionally downright self-referential, as when George Lazenby said in On Her Majesty's Secret Service, "This never happened to the other fellow," referring cryptically to Sean Connery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biSKZZXZbYE