Round Table - UNCLE IQ

[glennagirl.livejournal.com]

What is Illya thinking?  The look on his face is somewhere between amusement and sympathy for his partner, who has a smile on his face that just might be covering up for the fact he has no idea what George Dennell is talking about.
I know Napoleon is smart, but this  photo seems to tell a story of some sort.
There also seems to be a lot of static electricity in the air ;)

The screencaps are from Lisa's

Who: George Dennell, Illya Kuryakin, Napoleon Solo Where: U.N.C.L.E. HQ When: Dennell: "...but has the advantage of being able to cover a 175-degree arc on the earth's surface without having to go through a relay station."

And then there's the Virtue Affair, in which the brainiac Russian who we are later told has a Doctorate degree in Quantum Mechanics, cannot explain the workings of this missle aparatus.  Outside of a lack of continuity, is there another way to explain this lapse?

Who: Illya Kuryakin Where: Robespierre's lab complex When: Illya: "Now, if this piece does not work as it is designed to do, every single piece of the mechanism will not work."

 In contrast to Illya's struggles, Napoleon rigs up an ingenious method of electrocution in order to escape?  Now's who's clever?

Comments

[jantojones.livejournal.com]

In the first one, it really does look as though Illya is thinking, 'Napoleon hasn't got the first clue what George is saying'. Which is somewhat unfair. You don't get to be CEA of an organisation like UNCLE if you're thick. He's not a scientist, but one must assume you'd need some scientific knowledge to be an agent.

I have no explanation for why Illya struggled in 'Virtue'

[glennagirl.livejournal.com]

I agree that Napoleon would most certainly have enough background in a number of subjects to keep him clued in. Last week we discussed his astute observations that led him to explain a number of things in the Alexander the Greater Affair, enough that Illya seemed to admit he wouldn't have deduced the same conclusions.
Virtue… it's adorable, but defies his supposed degree and intellect.

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

But why should you assume that a theoretical physicist would understand a piece of engineering. I can handle almost any experiment on the school science syllabus, but I couldn't substitute for the lab tech in DT or IT, and they couldn't have substituted for me.

[glennagirl.livejournal.com]

I think he could have done better than what we saw, even if it was a different area from his. Improvisation is a necessary skill and it seems his were a little lame, all things considered. However, you are right in that it is not his area of expertise so we can cut him a little slack. Not a lot, but considering how cute he is here… who cares about science.