I tend to forget that Dench was in the Bond films before Craig -- perhaps because their dynamic was so intense and interesting, and perhaps because I am not all that interested in Bond outside of their dynamic. (OK, and because of that moment early in Casino Royale when Craig's Bond walked out of the water and for the first time, it seemed, it was Bond being presented to the female(and gay male) gaze as an object . . . which seemed only fair.)