Round Table - The Foreign Legion Affair

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complete gen fic: The Under the Ice Affair

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Now complete: The Under the Ice Affair

Rating: G

Summary: Illya and his team of agents are stranded north of the Arctic Circle, and the only way Napoleon can get there is to commandeer a submarine and go under the polar ice cap.

As he races north, Napoleon is preoccupied by the thought that this may be one of their last missions together before they retire from the field.

With illustrations by loxleyprince!

I posted a link to Act 1 of 4 here last week. Now the final three chapters are up on AO3 too, and the fic is complete.

S1-S4 subtitle files, and some analysis of nicknames and catch-phrases

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Cross-posted from here on muncle, at glennagirl's request.

A little while back, I came across a Section VII post from last year Round Table - Catch Phrases discussing the providence of various nicknames that turn up in fic, like 'tovarisch' and 'partner mine', and thought I'd see if I could source some of the ones people weren't sure about.

A little background context first: Frustrated by the lack of complete episode scripts for The Man from UNCLE available online, I recently went through the process of ripping the subtitle files from my DVDs and posted them online (details in another muncle post). These aren't a proper substitute for episode scripts, as there's no character attribution to most of the dialogue, and some lines do get mis-transcribed or abbreviated to save space, but they're close to the next best thing. Download links below for those who'd like their own copy.

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Of course, the really nice thing about having all the scripts available in text format is that it's then pretty trivial to write some code to search them all for particular quotes. So I set about running a search for a few obvious candidates, and turned up some interesting results – including some real surprises about how the different seasons handled the thorny issue of Illya's ethnicity.

( Details are at the original muncle post linked above, but also copied under the cut here )