Everyone has a favorite Bond. Everyone. Even people who aren’t particularly fans of the Bond films. Even those who’ve never even seen a single one of the films in the twenty-four film franchise (depending on who’s counting.) A lot of people go for Sean Connery, because he was the first, and therefore greatest, man to ever portray 007. Others love Roger Moore, because he was the most debonair and had the cleverest quips (or at least the best double entendres. Dalton only did two films, but there are of course people who liked the grittier turn his films took.

Others, like those in our generation, loved Pierce Brosnan as Bond because they came of age in the 90s and loved playing Goldeneye on Nintendo 64. Daniel Craig has even taken a silver medal in many fans’ minds as the best Bond since Connery, an opinion with which we agree, and would even argue that the gritty, three-dimensional James Bond we’ve seen since Casino Royale is the finest iteration of Britain’s Greatest Weapon that has ever been seen on film. We’re in the minority, sure, but if Craig was first instead of Connery, we’d be giving him a knighthood as we speak.

But regardless of who your favorite is, and it’s perfectly fine to have preferences in life, we should never elect one as “best” and dismiss the rest as “less than.” That timeless maxim of “Different strokes for different folks” is not just something that makes for great titles for 1970s sitcoms, but that should be applied to all aspects of our lives, films included. Someone may think George Lazenby was underrated as James Bond and should’ve had a longer run in the series (assuming he didn’t abandon the franchise after On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, paving the way for Connery’s return.

Point being, we’re FUCKING TIRED of seeing the constant lists of who the best Bond is/was, or a ranking of the Bond films, or a collection of the great Bond Girls (actually…we’re OK with that one.) But let;s decide, once and for all, to lay these inane rankings to rest, and agree that there’s a Bond for everyone, a Blofeld for all seasons, and a movie that inevitably has “Gold” in the title can appeal to anyone, regardless of their tastes and personal preferences.