working on timelines...

[glennagirl.livejournal.com]

Some of you may have paid attention to a recent trend in my stories that have to do with validating the Return Movie, that most vilified of MFU non-episode yet solidly canon film in which we have Messrs. Solo and Kuryakin no longer with UNCLE but out having a life elsewhere.


I'm also delving into pre-New York life, particularly Illya's, in which there must be a reasonable timeline established for his remarkable assortment of degrees, accomplishments and general Illya-ness.
The other night I watched the Gazebo in the Maze Affair, in which Napoleon states that he and Illya encountered Emory Partridge seven years prior.  Now, the episode was shown in the spring of '65, so I'm going to go with that, which means they would have been in South America routing Emory sometime in 1958.  
Illya graduated Survival School in '56, correct?  He would have already had his Bachelor's from the UG in the Ukraine by then, and before heading off to South America he should have finished the Master's at the Sorbonne.  He would then, after ruining the Partridge's party, have needed to head straight for London and start on his doctorate at Cambridge while working, we have all surmised, for Harry Beldon.  Now, I'm not sure how long it takes someone to gain a PhD in Quantum Mechanics from Cambridge, but I'm thinking he's going to just make it to New York in time to film the pilot in 1963... tongue in cheek here.
Does that track with people here, or am I missing something?  Those writers in Season 3 should have checked on what happened in Seasons 1&2 before they started handing out doctorate degrees to a man on such a tight schedule.  No wonder Illya doesn't show a lot of interest in women, he's probably still pooped from all of that academic overload.

''Can I just rest now?''

Comments

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

I resented them like crazy for getting more hours credited for the time they spent in class and labs

Whereas us poor scientists resented the free time the arts side had. The scientists were the only people who made it to breakfast on a regular basis as we had 9am lectures every day, followed by six hour labs on three days. We fitted in more lectures on the other two days.

[glennagirl.livejournal.com]

We were all over worked, I'm sure. I had a lab (don't roll you eyes at the idea of an art lab, they exist) five days a week and received one hour credit. Science majors had the same amount of time and an hour for every actual hour. An Associates degree (two years) in Fine Arts or Music took three years unless you took more classes than was reasonable to expect. But I beat the system haha! I quite. One does not need an art degree in order to paint, happily. It might help you to get a job, but hey... details.

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

five days a week and received one hour credit.

No, that's not fair. If you were required to be there then you should get the credit for turning up and working.

And I'm sure there were people doing practical stuff that was a lab equivalent, it's just that I hung out with theologians and linguists who only had to read books (and then only enough to get by).

[glennagirl.livejournal.com]

Pre-computer... hand lettering. Do I need to say more?

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

I was early computer, I never did get the hang of programming with punched cards.