Talk Elections

The List:
Dr. Julius No
Rosa Kleb
Auric Goldfinger (immune until Round Eight)
Emilio Largo
Ernst Stavro Blofeld (immune until Round Sixteen)
Dr. Kananga/Mr. Big
Francesco Scaramanga
Karl Stromberg
Hugo Drax
Aris Kristatos
Kamal Kahn
General Orlov
Max Zorin
General Georgi Koskov
Brad Whitaker
Franz Sanchez
Alec Trevelyan
Eliot Carver
Elektra King
Renard
Gustav Graves
Le Chiffre
Mr. White
Dominic Greene


Each round will last roughly 24 hours, and the method of elimination will be outlandish and completely unnecessary.  In case of a tie, a runoff will be held.

Round One: divvy up ten points however you please -- the villain with the most points will be eliminated -- and vote for another to immunize for...oh let's say seven rounds.  That will work.

Round Two: normal elimination

Round Three: cast seven votes  4-2-1; the villain with the most votes will be eliminated.

Round Four: vote to eliminate two villains and keep one.

Round Five: normal elimination

Round Six: cast ten points however you please to keep and/or eliminate as many villains as you desire.

Round Seven: vote 4-2-1 for three villains to eliminate.

Round Eight: cast your vote 3-1 for two villains to eliminate and 1 to immunize another.  Auric Goldfinger is no longer immune.

Round Nine: vote to eliminate one villain.

Round Ten: You have ten points to vote towards eliminating however many villains you desire and another ten to keep.

Round Eleven: vote 4-2-1 for three villains to eliminate.

Round Twelve: normal elimination.

Round Thirteen: vote to eliminate three villains and keep two.

Round Fourteen: apportion 15 votes 5-4-3-2-1.

Round Fifteen A: normal elimination.
Round Fifteen B: vote to eliminate either King or Largo.

Round Sixteen: vote to eliminate two villains; the highest vote getter dies.  Ernst Stavro Blofeld is no longer immune.

Round Seventeen: vote to eliminate two villains and keep one.

Eliminate:
3 Renard
3 Gustav Graves
2 Eliot Carver
2 Hugo Drax

Immunize:
Auric Goldfinger

Eliminate:
4 Renard
2 Gustav Graves
2 Eliot Carver
2 Dominic Greene

Immunize:
Auric Goldfinger

Eliminate:

5 Gustav Graves
2 Eliot Carver
2 Renard
1 Aris Kristatos

Immunity:

Since Goldfinger's going to win, I vote Blofeld.

Eliminate
6 for Gustav Graves
4 for Dominic Greene

Immunity for Blofeld

Eliminate:
4  Gustav Graves
4  Max Zorin
2  Dominic Greene

Immunity:
Auric Goldfinger

10 Gustav Graves

Immunity : Goldfinger

Gustav Graves is hereby sucked through an airplane turbine.  Auric Goldfinger is immune for seven rounds.

Eliminate: Gustav Graves: 30; Renard: 9, Dominic Greene: 8, Eliot Carver: 6, Max Zorin: 4, Hugo Drax: 2, Aris Kristatos: 1

Immune: Auric Goldfinger: 4;  Blofeld: 2

Round Two is now open.  Vote to eliminate one villain.

(Sorry about not being able to close the round yesterday.  I proofed a friend's term paper and she took forever to get it to me.)

Renard

Dominic Greene

renard

Renard

Renard has been shot in the head.  Good news (for him): the bullet is traveling so slowly we don't know when he'll actually die.

Renard: 5; Dominic Greene:1


Round Three is now open.  You have seven votes to cast 4-2-1; the villain with the most votes will be eliminated.

4 Eliot Carver
2 Hugo Drax
1 Dominic Greene

4 Elliot Carver
2 Dominic Greene
1 Aris Kristatos

4 Dominic Greene
2 Hugo Drax
1 Elliot Carver

4 Dominic Greene
2 Hugo Drax
1 Aris Kristatos

4  Max Zorin
2  Hugo Drax
1  Dr. Kanaga/Mr. Big

4 for Dominic Greene (After Graves this seriously is the lamest villan, though i realise that Carver, Drax and Stromberg are strong contenders too)
2 for Hugo Drax
1 for Elliot Carver

Zorin MUST stay, Walken is hilarious in that one, almost it looks like the guy just accepted to be in the movie for the laughs ;D

Dominic Greene has been found dead in the Bolivian Desert full of bullets and motor oil.

Greene: 15
Carver: 10
Drax: 10
Zorin: 4
Kristatos: 2
Dr. Kananga: 1

Round Four is now open.  Vote to eliminate two villains and keep one.

Eliminate:
Carver
Drax

Keep:
Sanchez




If I recall correctly, Walken only turns down roles when he can't fit them into his schedule.  It explains a lot of his movies.

Eliminate
Carver
Kristatos

Keep
Zorin

Eliminate:
Carver
Drax

Keep:
Dr. Kanaga

Eliminate
Carver
Drax

Keep
Zorin

Eliminate:
Carver
Drax

Keep:
Zorin

The founder of Carver Media Group Network has been found dead in an apparent suicide aboard his luxury yacht in the South China Sea.  His former board of directors fears hostile takeover attempts by News Corp. and Mirror Group Newspapers are imminent.

Carver: 7
Drax: 6
Kristatos: 1
Zorin: -3
Dr. Kananga: -2
Sanchez: -2

Round Five is now open.  Normal Elimination.

Drax

Kristatos

Zorin

Christopher Walken was and is brilliant, but the character Zorin sucks

Hugo Drax has taken a step back for mankind.

Drax: 4
Kristatos: 1
Zorin: 1

Round Six is now open.  Cast ten points however you please to keep and/or eliminate as many villains as you desire.

Eliminate
4 Stromberg
4 Dr. Kananga/Mr. Big

Keep
Dr. No
Trevelyan

5 to keep kananga

5 to eliminate kristatos

Eliminate
5 Kristatos
2 Whitaker

Keep
3 Stromberg

Eliminate

4 Kristatos
2 Whitaker

Keep

3 Kananga
1 Trevelyan

Eliminate:

5 Stromberg

Keep:

5  Kristatos

Eliminate
8 for Stromberg

Keep
2 for Kristatos

Karl Stromberg has been eliminated, and by "eliminated," I mean killed.

Stromberg: 14
Kristatos: 7
Whitaker: 4
Dr. No: -1
Trevelyan: -2
Dr. Kananga/Mr. Big: -4

Round Seven is now open.  Vote 4-2-1 for three villains to eliminate.

4 Largo
2 Kristatos
1 Orlov

4 Largo
2 Kristatos
1 Whitaker

4 Kristatos
2 Whitaker
1 Orlov

....to save Largo!!

4 Kristatos
2 Whitaker
1 Sanchez

4  Zorin
2  Sanchez
1  Orlov

4 for Orlov (though his bizarre speech near the start of the film is hilariously epic ;D)
2 for Mr White
1 for Le Chiffre

"Et tu, Columbo?"

Kristatos: 12
Largo: 8
Orlov: 7
Whitaker: 5
Zorin: 4
Sanchez: 3
Mr. White: 2
Le Chiffre: 1

Round Eight is now open.  Cast your vote 3-1 for two villains to eliminate and 1 to immunize another.  Auric Goldfinger is no longer immune.

Eliminate
3 King
1 Orlov

Immunize
Sanchez

3 Orlov
1 Whitaker

Immunize Le Chiffre

Eliminate
3 Whitaker
1 Sanchez

Immunize
Blofeld

Eliminate
3 King
1 Orlov

Immunize
Whitaker

I'll leave this round open for a bit longer so Edu and BenNebbich (or anyone else, for that matter) can vote and hopefully break the tie for immunity.

thank you.

eliminate
3 orlov
1 largo

immunize
blofeld

3 for Orlov
1 for Mr White

Immunity for Blofeld

3 for Emile Largo
1 for Kamhal Kahn

Immune: Blofeld

General Orlov has been shot by German border guards.

Eliminate: Orlov: 11; King: 6; Largo: 4; Whitaker: 4; Kahn: 1; Sanchez: 1; White: 1

Immune: Blofeld: 4; Le Chiffre: 1; Sanchez: 1; Whitaker: 1

Round Nine is now open.  Vote to eliminate one villain.  Ernst Stavro Blofeld is immune until Round Sixteen.

King




Not a problem.

Whitaker

Largo

Mr White

Whitaker

Brad Whitaker was killed by the Duke of Wellington while reenacting the Civil War.  He might have survived if he better knew history.

Whitaker: 3
King: 1
Largo: 1
Mr. White: 1

Round Ten is now open.  You have ten points to vote towards eliminating however many villains you desire and another ten to keep.

Eliminate
4 King
2 Mr. White
2 Dr. Kananga/Mr. Big
2 Largo

Keep
5 Sanchez
5 Zorin

Eliminate:

5  Dr. Kananga/Mr. Big
3  Zorin
2  Largo

Keep:

5  King
5  Mr. White

Eliminate
5 Kananga/Big
4 Sanchez
1 Largo

Keep
5 Scaramanga
3 Blofeld
2 Goldfinger

eliminate

10 largo

keep

10 dr. kananga

I can't let BenNebbich's vote stand.

Eliminate
10 Dr. Kananga

Keep
10 Emilio Largo

ojojojojojojoj!!

Well.

I think you've learned that heresy is not tolerated around here. ;)

as Cannonball Adderley put it: mercy, mercy, mercy

Eliminate
8 for Mr White
2 for Le Chiffre

Keep
8 for Kananga
2 for Largo

Ben, homely, there's only one way to settle so grievous a difference of opinion:


Shame, really, to see it come to this.

Mr. White’s death is as mysterious as his life.

Mr. White: 5
Dr. Kananga/Mr. Big: 4
Largo: 3
Le Chiffre: 2
Sanchez: 2
King: 1
Zorin: 1
Goldfinger: -2
Blofeld: -3
Scaramanga: -5

Round Eleven is now open.  Do the 4-2-1 thing, I guess.  Perhaps one day I'll attempt to be creative with the rules.  Not today, though.  Not today.

4 King
2 Dr. Kananga/Mr. Big
1 Largo

4 Kananga/Big
2 Sanchez
1 Le Chiffre

4 Kananga/Big
2 King
1 Sanchez

4 Kananga/Big
2 Zorin
1 Largo

4 for Le Chiffre
2 for Largo
1 for Kananga

Ben?

it's christmas time and as i am a beekeeper i have a lot of business at the moment.

but here we go:

4 le chiffre
2 king
1 largo

i'm prepared. i prefer axes as weapons. (be aware of the fact, that i own a little piece of wood, in which i name the trees after my enemies and then......)

A beekeeper who kills people with axes and names trees after his victims?

Curiouser and curiouser!

Dr. Kananga/Mr. Big: 15
Le Chiffre: 9
King: 8
Largo: 5
Sanchez: 3
Zorin: 2

Round Twelve is now open.  Normal elimination.

King

Largo

Sanchez

It's a tossup for me between Sanchez and King...

Eliminate Sanchez

(...not Largo.)

I was going to vote for Le Chiffre again, but i must try to save Sanchez.

King

Franz Sanchez has DIAF.  He is survived by his iguana and creepy televangelist.

Sanchez: 3
King: 2
Largo: 1

Round Thirteen is now open.  Vote for three villains to eliminate and two to keep.

Eliminate
King
Le Chiffre
Largo

Keep
Trevelyan
Kahn

Eliminate

King
Koskov
Kahn

Keep

Le Chiffre
Largo

Eliminate
Le Chiffre
Largo
Koskov

Keep
King
Kahn

Eliminate
Largo
Le Chiffre
Koskov

Keep
Scaramanga
King

Eliminate:

Max Zorin
General Georgi Koskov
Rosa Kleb

Keep:
Le Chiffre
Francesco Scaramanga

eliminate
largo
king
le chiffre

keep
kleb
zorin

General Georgi Koskov has been disappeared.

Koskov: 4
Largo: 3
Le Chiffre: 2
King: 1
Kleb: 0
Zorin: 0
Kahn: -1
Trevelyan: -1
Scaramanga: -2

Round Fourteen is now open.  Apportion 15 votes 5-4-3-2-1.

5 King
4 Le Chiffre
3 Largo
2 Kahn
1 Kleb

5 Largo
4 Le Chiffre
3 Kahn
2 Zorin
1 King

5 Kahn
4 King
3 Kleb
2 Largo
1 Scaramanga

5  Max Zorin
4  Rosa Kleb
3  Elektra King
2  Kamal Kahn
1  Emilio Largo

5 for Le Chiffre
4 for Travelyan
3 for Goldfinger
2 for Dr No
1 for Scaramanga

5 Largo
4 Le Chiffre
3 Zorin
2 Kahn
1 Scaramanga

I'm curious: Why don't people like Le Chiffre?

I never really liked the Le Chiffre character (not even the novel or the Orson Wells one).

I don't find the story about him losing the money and then organizing a poker, Baccarat or whatever tournament to win the money again. I like playing poker, but watching it just bores me to death and in the Craig movie it is a boringly obvious affair. Watching poker is not exactly my idea for a Bond film, not very exciting to say the least.

He also gets killed by someone other than Bond like 30 minutes before the end of the film. Fail.

And i don't like the actor, something which goes in direct opposition to my usual feelings about other Bond Villains.

I may also be a bit prejudiced against the new movies.

And finally i believe his time to go has come (personally i would have preferred it to be a few rounds ago).

It just wasn't in the cards.

Weird wiki tidbit: Fleming based him on Aleister Crowley.

Le Chiffre: 17
Largo: 16
Kahn: 14
King: 13
Zorin: 10
Kleb: 8
Trevelyan: 4
Goldfinger: 3
Scaramanga: 3
Dr. No: 2

Round Fifteen is open.  Normal elimination.

King

I agree with a lot of Edu's argument - aside from not liking Mikkelsen as an actor (I haven't seen enough of his films to make that pronouncement) - but I think most of my disapproval comes from how I find his character anachronistic given the new, more realistic take the producers are shooting for.

I also don't like the Craig era in general, for what that's worth.

Largo

largo

King

Largo

As Largo and King are tied 3-3, they go to a run-off.  I'll sit this round to ensure an odd number of voters.

(Not that the result will be in any way unpredictable :P)

largo

Largo

King

Emilio Largo has been shot in the back with a spear gun.  Damn problems with peripheral vision!

Largo: 3
King: 1

Round Sixteen is now open.  Vote to eliminate two villains; the highest vote getter dies.  Ernst Stavro Blofeld is no longer immune.

King
Zorin

King
Kamal Kahn

Kamal Kahn
Max Zorin

King
Zorin

King
Kahn

Elektra King has been shot by a jilted lover.  Shame.

King: 5
Kahn: 4
Zorin: 3

Round Seventeen is now open.  Vote to eliminate two villains and keep one.

Eliminate:
Kahn
Zorin

Keep:
Trevelyan

Eliminate
Kahn
Zorin

Keep

Kleb

Eliminate
Kahn
Kleb

Keep
Trevelyan

Eliminate
Kahn
Scaramanga

Keep
Zorin

Eliminate
Kahn
Scaramanga

Keep
Trevelyan

Eliminate
Zorin
Blofeld

Keep
Scaramanga