More thoughts on James Bond:
I think that each era should have something that makes it unique.
1.) Connery Bond: Is a more serialized affair; SPECTRE is the overarching antagonistic force (save for Goldfinger, a one off). Starts out every bit as unpleasant and dated as OTL, but Marilyn Monroe refusing a role and dismissing it as trash forces somewhat of a reevaluation. A possible retcon is that due to the weather being good OHMSS gets made in 67; Connery is impressed with the script, and so decides to stick around.
Interestingly, OHMSS is the first Bond film that can REALLY be called feminist. Connery and Rigg share fantastic chemistry and we get to see Bond as a much nicer person (the events of Casino Royale are hinted at, but not shown). This makes Tracy’s death far more tragic.
As a result, YOLT is a much stronger film. Bond is still visibly grieving Tracy’s death, and in a truly ballsy move for the time, Kissy is given a much more developed role. She’s Bond’s third love, and she helps him come to term with Tracy’s death. The climax not only involves Blofeld unleashing his evil plan, it also involves him threatening Kissy and taunting Bond about “loosing another one” (the scene in Spectre where bond has to race to save Madeline but 56 years earlier and different). Blofeld is defeated and killed, as is Irma Bunt.
Diamonds are Forever is a sort of epilogue, with SPECTRE’s rebirth being thwarted.
Glover Era: More Episodic; there’s no overarching big bad, but there are call backs which clearly establish it as the same continuity. Someone suggested Kissy show up in 1977, as a sort of amicable ex. It’s mentioned that she and Bond have a son together
I’ll need to see how the timeline goes to guess the later stuff, but I think that if there is an evil organization Spectre isn’t brought back. Even leaving aside copyright the story ended conclusively.