I agree with adapting your own timeline. I had Illya completing all his education, University of Ukraine, Sorbonne and Cambridge before coming to UNCLE. (as well as doing his mandatory military service in the Navy. In my stories he was a Soviet operative while completing his studies and as he was already a trained agent I had him under Harry Beldon's tutelage for several years. He attended Survival School prior to his transfer to NY ( the big leagues) This all under Waverly's direction.
I ignore the inconsistencies regarding his scientific abilities on the show. In the reunion movie as I recall, David McCallum suggested the role reversal, he being the women's clothing designer instead of being the owner of the computer company. He wanted to shake things up a bit. And it did you fans I suppose as it really didn't make sense for their characters to go in the directions they did. If it were the reverse, it would have made more sense, and possibly made the movie better for the fans. oh well, it is what it is and I admire your taking it on, but as I said, developing your own time-line would be more logical in that illogical and inconsistent world that the MFU writers gave us.
The stories you've written are great and are helping make the "reunion scenario" more palatable, so keep up the good work.
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Date: 2012-04-03 01:30 pm (UTC)I ignore the inconsistencies regarding his scientific abilities on the show. In the reunion movie as I recall, David McCallum suggested the role reversal, he being the women's clothing designer instead of being the owner of the computer company. He wanted to shake things up a bit. And it did you fans I suppose as it really didn't make sense for their characters to go in the directions they did. If it were the reverse, it would have made more sense, and possibly made the movie better for the fans. oh well, it is what it is and I admire your taking it on, but as I said, developing your own time-line would be more logical in that illogical and inconsistent world that the MFU writers gave us.
The stories you've written are great and are helping make the "reunion scenario" more palatable, so keep up the good work.