Round Table - Sorry I'm Late...

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The Girls from Nazarone Affair is one of my favorites.  It has the style and atmosphere that made Season 1 so irresistible, and it has shots like this:


Arguably one of the most appealing photographs within the series is this table side discussion between our heroes.  Illya, with drink in hand contemplates what his partner is telling him regarding the ominous activities of Dr. Egret and her blonde assassins. Each of them will meet with some type of danger, and as I watched the episode this past week, I wondered if the writers turned Kuryakin into the physically agile, human monkey that he sometimes is? Or did David McCallum's natural athleticism inspire scenes like him being thrown to the bottom of a well and climbing straight up and out of it?
Would they have ever put him on a stationary bicycle to peddle his way to exhaustion, as they did Napoleon?  And again, once Solo and the innocent are tied to rafts and left to die it is Illya who dives (with very good form, by the way), into the pool and saves them both.
Someone may know definitively how it all came about, but I'm still wondering if it was a natural evolution or just what seemed right to those in charge of scripting such things.
Anyone?

Non-Challenge Fic: The Deadly in My Fashion Affair

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This is the beginning of a multi-part story I started years ago. Time to stop tweaking it and just put it out there.

The Deadly in My Fashion Affair

Somewhere in Soho, New York City

The week-long silence that hung over the loft was at last lifted by the grating of the cargo elevator making its ascent. The elevator's gate slid open with a metallic groan, and its sole occupant stumbled into the room. A sigh, followed by a prodigious yawn, echoed through the cavernous space.

Faustina Pemberley felt her way to the spiral staircase, her shins becoming reacquainted with each piece of furniture on the way. Had she really created this obstacle course? Aesthetics be damned. Tomorrow she was rearranging it all.

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Non-Challenge Fic: The Fifty-Millionth Frenchman Affair, 2/?

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Title: The Fifty-Millionth Frenchman Affair, chapter two
Summary: The group prepares for the search on the morrow, in spite of their concerns and questions.


( Defacing Private Property, Mr. Kuryakin? )

Welcome to America - Non Challenge Fic (Technically)

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I started this for the picfic a few weeks ago but didn't nearly manage to get it finished. It's a two parter, and I'll get the second part posted later this week. And yes, I know this is now my third work-in-progress. *cough* I'll get there.

Welcome to America

Really, there were worse places to be heading on a crisp fall morning than Coney Island. But with the air of injured silence in the car, apparently Napoleon was the only one who thought so.

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