A New MFU Convert...

[glennagirl.livejournal.com]

This is a nice article from a new fan who hits the proverbial nail on the head: the real men from UNCLE are stil Vaughn and McCallum
The Real Men from UNCLE

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[carabele.livejournal.com]

Oh, definitely the whole Anglophile phenomenon fostered by the Beatles played a huge part in the success of the series. But you know that was the fangirl part.

MFU did (and does) have "fanguys" too, and they weren't looking at the whole thing from the McCallum phenomenon. (My brother was a huge fan of the show, just to give a personal example and it wasn't McCallum that hooked him. It was the premise and the action of course. ;-)

I think sometimes it is forgotten that we fangals are not the whole of the MFU fandom by a long stretch.

[carabele.livejournal.com]

And it's funny but Americans have always been Anglophiles in one form or another. :-)

I mean that's what made and is making Dowtown Abbey such a success in the U.S.

We got our independence but still kept an emotional attraction to all things British it seems. [lol]

[glennagirl.livejournal.com]

For so many of us it is the faraway homeland. Unfortunately we are sometimes regarded by those distant cousins like the redheaded stepchild, not always a fond embrace.

[glennagirl.livejournal.com]

My dad was a fan, we watched it together. No doubt Mr. Vaughn would have been his choice but I don't remember him saying one way or the other.
I think the show has obvious qualities that appeal to various interests, but the phenomenon that is was has to be due to the other contributing factors of the era, and that is primarily that it resonated with an age group highly influenced by the music and trends of 1964.
I imagine the young men who were fans were drawn in by the fantasy life they could enter as they saw themselves being those characters, whether Solo or Kuryakin. It's always about the fantasy, the what if.
Hey, I posted a comment in the canteen regarding our discussion here. Join in if you like, we'll make it more interesting :D