I see your crackpot whovian theory and raise you my Cracked.com theory:
http://www.cracked.com/article/18367...movies-better/
I watched a bit of a James Bond movie marathon the other day, and a thought popped into my head. How is it that they cast James Bond as new actors every few movies as he goes through the years? Is it the same Bond, or just some identity a new agent picks up? Well, I looked up an explanation that I came up with, and I’m not the only one who thinks that something about Bond seems a bit fishy.
http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/11/sky...is-a-time-lord
I see your crackpot whovian theory and raise you my Cracked.com theory:
http://www.cracked.com/article/18367...movies-better/
Or, he's paying homage to his predecessor's dead wife out of respect because he's English and therefore classy.
Or, when his predecessor retired out of grief, such an act was to lead enemies attentions onto the new Bond as some sort of ruse to make them think they may be one and the same, therefore letting his predecessor have fewer things to worry about.
Or some combination of reasons. It still maintains some degree of realism within the Bondverse, without throwing your arms into the air and shitting all over it, and rearranging the fecal matter into "lul timlord"