TIME TO POLL!

[glennagirl.livejournal.com]

We haven't had a poll lately and Friday seems a good day for it.  Please feel free to talk about your answers and other possible answers to the questions.  Especially the last one, I'm curious about that and how the two movie actors would have fared 50 years ago.[Poll #2035876]

Comments

[the-wretching.livejournal.com]

Great questions!

As to the first: I don't like the idea. It seems like part of what is attractive to them, and to the viewer, is the dangerousness of it. Plus why ruin such a lovely little divertisment with something so crass as love?

Second question really seems to require knowledge of the workings of the KGB, which I do not possess, but I would think that they would take his experience as useful to them as soon as he convinced them (he could in a heartbeat--he's Illya) that he was all in and not a traitor.

I just don't know about the last one. It's hard to picture. I suspect it would not have had the staying power.

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

Just to clarify, (not that your comment is directed to me) but I never saw Illya as a traitor, as he was following orders to serve UNCLE given him by the GRU, (the military branch of Soviet intelligence.) but in my stories I have him thought of as a traitor by the KGB, because he wouldn't spy for them.

Though he's loyal to his home, he swore an oath to UNCLE which he takes seriously, but the KGB, which is the Soviet secret police, thinks he shouldn't.

Very interesting and eye opening are the books written by Viktor Suvorov, an ex-Soviet spy. He was condemned to death by the Supreme Military Court in USSR for defecting and betraying his homeland. (apparently he's still alive but lives in hiding with his family)