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

[glennagirl.livejournal.com]

My first thought is the writers hadn't yet decided to give him a Ph.D. in quantum physics. However, he is the intellectual half of this duo and might have done better than this.

[rosywonder.livejournal.com]

Hmm, perhaps it's a good job Napoleon wasn't there to witness the abysmal performance of the boy wonder. Eternal retribution might have followed ....

[carabele.livejournal.com]

This is definitely the case. This was a Season 2 episode and the writers didn't go with the degree in quantum physics until Season 3 and then promptly forgot it in Season 4. Re the reference in THE MAZE about it being handy being imprisoned with a physicist refefering to Febray.

This thing with VIRTUE comes up again and again in discussion, and you really do have to put it down to a bunch of different writers for the show and thus little consistency.

Myself I think the writers did the character of Illya a disservice when they came up with that angle of a quantum physics degree. Personally I think his degree should have been in something that was demonstrated as part of the character many times, Languages.

[glennagirl.livejournal.com]

Yes, it makes more sense for him to not be a scientist of any kind. He really does exhibit more creative traits, such as music and languages. He even ends up impersonating fashion designers ;)
He definitely never spent time in any labs during the series, a scenario that always sort of surprises me when I see it in stories. Of course we all pick and choose when it comes to certain things, so it's all fine. I just don't see him in that role.