again, sorta canon. In the original development notes and Norman Felton's original conception, he is. His parents worked at the Hotel Frontenac. However, NBC was nervous about the Solo character being tied in any way to Ian Fleming after Fleming bowed out of the project. [They identified Canadian with Fleming's Britishness ---go figure]. SO, they sorta changed it by having him apparently serve with Col. Morgan during apparently the Korean War which may have been Army Intelligence but we don't know for sure.
But actually, we know more about Illya's background [and yes, he is Soviet Russian ---both Sam Rolfe and Norman Felton told me to my face, in person] than we do canonically about Solo.
Fanfic writers [yours truly included] have gone out of their way to preserve some of the original concepts [did you know Solo was also a widower? It's in the notes they handed RV ---he remembered reading it] that sorta float in the background and in dialogue of some episodes, especially the first season.
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Date: 2020-01-07 08:58 pm (UTC)again, sorta canon. In the original development notes and Norman Felton's original conception, he is. His parents worked at the Hotel Frontenac. However, NBC was nervous about the Solo character being tied in any way to Ian Fleming after Fleming bowed out of the project. [They identified Canadian with Fleming's Britishness ---go figure]. SO, they sorta changed it by having him apparently serve with Col. Morgan during apparently the Korean War which may have been Army Intelligence but we don't know for sure.
But actually, we know more about Illya's background [and yes, he is Soviet Russian ---both Sam Rolfe and Norman Felton told me to my face, in person] than we do canonically about Solo.
Fanfic writers [yours truly included] have gone out of their way to preserve some of the original concepts [did you know Solo was also a widower? It's in the notes they handed RV ---he remembered reading it] that sorta float in the background and in dialogue of some episodes, especially the first season.