The Man from UNCLE Purists

[glennagirl.livejournal.com]

That's the name of a group of fans over on Yahoo.  First of all, if you are one of the 7 members of this group, I don't want to offend you by what I'm going to say here, but this is a little scary.  This is sort of like MFU Militia.  What, exactly, are the consequences of violating the following directive?

Group Description

Members believe that the original television series, The Man from UNCLE and the ACE Novels based on the series are the ONLY true and acceptable version. That ONLY the original cast can play in the original roles and that re-interpretation of such characters and the series itself in any other form is blasphamous and an insult to UNCLE fans, everywhere. Purists are the most devoted of all UNCLE fans for they hold true to the original series and ONLY the original series, without exception. If it was not seen in a episode or was not written in the original ACE Books...it is NOT The Man from UNCLE.

At the risk of being facetious, what is the penalty for not putting a period after every letter in UNCLE?
I guess what I really want to know is this: Is this a joke?

Comments

[jkkitty.livejournal.com]

where in the world did you find this? Someone has to either be kidding or nuts.

[laurose8.livejournal.com]

The use and misspelling of the word blasphe/amous suggests it is a joke. Maybe the poster was annoyed at someone's purism.

[carabele.livejournal.com]

I think that group was formed a couple of years ago when all the movie talk was going on, but everything was getting nowhere. (And oldsters were constantly being pitched for the role of Solo.)

I could be wrong, but I think it was serious. But as you can see it never was popular and still isn't.

[carabele.livejournal.com]

And of course if they were that "purist" any fanfiction at all would be [cough] "blasphamous".

[renn.livejournal.com]

The Ace novels aren't canon. Group is made of fail. (We won't even go into the missing periods in "U.N.C.L.E.")

[st-crispins.livejournal.com]

It is not a joke. It's been around for a while now. It is serious. [sigh]

As far as the periods, there's been worse. Some first cousins really get annoyed if they leave out the 'and' in United Network Command for Law and Enforcement.

My reply to any 'purism' in MFU is: "The series contains a man riding a stink bomb and a dancing gorilla. Please."

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

What would you even talk about on that group? Isn't it kind of a gigantically boring echo chamber?

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

St. Crispin sums it up perfectly :"The series contains a man riding a stink bomb and a dancing gorilla. Please." So much for purism.