It's Been the Same James Bond This Whole Time - A 007 Nerd's Chronology

When No Time to Die hits screens, James Bond will enter his 7th decade on Her Majesty's Secret Service. From Sean Connery in Dr. No, through Roger Moore and his longest tenure as 007, Pierce Brosnan hitting and missing from Goldeneye to Die Another Day and an actual continuity with Daniel Craig, the Bond franchise is populated with mostly standalone adventures. BUT... what if we wanted to try and make sense of it?
The most popular theory, that James Bond 007 is a codename passed from spy to spy, might be the easiest to swallow, let's have some more fun with it. What if he was literally the same guy the whole time? How could we reorganize the Bond Chronology to make sense of all the recasting, the different M's and Q's and Moneypenny's?
Here follows a frankly bananas exercise in Bond chronology, with all of the logic leaps, delusions and suspensions of disbeliefs you'll need to entertain to watch all the Bond films like he's been the same guy through all of them. It's not perfect but it IS fun and we'll call this watch order...
"The Spy with Her Majesty's Quantum Finger!"
1. Casino Royale (2006)
2. Quantum of Solace
3. Goldfinger
4. Dr. No
5. From Russia With Love
6. Thunderball
7. Live and Let Die
8. The Man with the Golden Gun
9. Moonraker
10. You Only Live Twice
11. Diamonds Are Forever
12. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
13. For Your Eyes Only
14. The Spy Who Loved Me
15. The Living Daylights
16. License to Kill
17. Goldeneye
18. Tomorrow Never Dies
19. The World is Not Enough
20. Die Another Day
21. Skyfall
22. Spectre
23. Octopussy
24. A View to a Kill
25. Never Say Never Again
26. No Time to Die
27. Casino Royale (1967)