Yes, all those little elements you mentioned are canon, and that's what I meant with the references being small and subtle.
But real AU, where the guys are something other than U.N.C.L.E. agents and never were U.N.C.L.E. agents and there is really no supposed accepted premonition of U.N.C.L.E in their future (as in childhood stories), doesn't work for me as MFU fiction. It's fiction, and it might be enjoyable, but it just isn't MFU.
And not sure that was clear by I meant that the "accepted premonition of U.N.C.L.E. in their future": such IS indeed part of childhood stories (even if not referenced directly, the precursing is always there in some form), which is why they can work for me.
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Date: 2013-02-28 05:38 pm (UTC)But real AU, where the guys are something other than U.N.C.L.E. agents and never were U.N.C.L.E. agents and there is really no supposed accepted premonition of U.N.C.L.E in their future (as in childhood stories), doesn't work for me as MFU fiction. It's fiction, and it might be enjoyable, but it just isn't MFU.
Like I said, I'm a traditionalist. [chuckle]
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Date: 2013-02-28 05:56 pm (UTC)