tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75557205567764834.post3684228393684634121..comments2024-01-29T04:14:06.026-08:00Comments on Preppies of the Apocalypse: The Man From U.N.C.L.E.: “The Candidate’s Wife Affair”Morgan Richterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14479288651753689466noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75557205567764834.post-87764159654182312672017-06-12T01:29:51.236-07:002017-06-12T01:29:51.236-07:00Would love to have seen the judo match between the...Would love to have seen the judo match between the two comely female judo experts and our boys!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75557205567764834.post-29076037395959252332017-01-24T09:22:28.354-08:002017-01-24T09:22:28.354-08:00Oh, that could work! The funny thing is that the w...Oh, that could work! The funny thing is that the woman Napoleon kind of fell for didn't really exist. She wasn't Miranda but she really wasn't Irina either. And if she were Mara it would be a third kind of weird palimpsest, or fourth or more since Mara was taken as a child, brainwashed by Thrush, created herself again for Napoleon, then willingly re-brainwashed by Uncle. Aconitum-Napellushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02132750527925948980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75557205567764834.post-762593970723297992017-01-24T08:37:20.086-08:002017-01-24T08:37:20.086-08:00A friend has a theory that Fake Miranda/Irina is a...A friend has a theory that Fake Miranda/Irina is actually Mara, the THRUSH scientist who was ordered to seduce Napoleon in "The Nowhere Affair", who was also played by Diana Hyland and who ended up with her memory erased by UNCLE at the end of the episode. I like this theory a lot -- it makes sense* that, after she established a new life as a judo instructor named Irina, THRUSH would track her down, brainwash her, and send her after Napoleon again. <br /><br />*I mean, obviously it makes absolutely no sense at all, but within the boundaries of this weird, delightful series, it would totally work.Morgan Richterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14479288651753689466noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75557205567764834.post-18048902858080111182017-01-23T12:30:14.901-08:002017-01-23T12:30:14.901-08:00This is one of those episodes I overlook but actua...This is one of those episodes I overlook but actually rather like. Illya schooling Napoleon over his spy skills. Banter. Mad scientists playing with Illya’s hair. I loved the scene where Napoleon is trying to sober up Miranda so much I had to write a story about Napoleon trying to sober Illya up. <br />That whole dodgy business with the pill; perhaps Illya was anxious he didn’t do anything with an underage Illya fan, and that's why he gave her all the pills?Aconitum-Napellushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02132750527925948980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75557205567764834.post-13094357763570185722017-01-11T05:21:54.204-08:002017-01-11T05:21:54.204-08:00I love Miranda/Irina whipping out her judo skills,...I love Miranda/Irina whipping out her judo skills, and yes, absolutely, she'd be a great addition to U.N.C.L.E. There's an interesting story in there somewhere about Napoleon falling in love with Fake Miranda, and vice-versa, and then both of them coming to realize Napoleon is in love with someone who doesn't exist, i.e. Irina brainwashed into behaving like Miranda, only with mad judo skills, and Irina realizing she doesn't actually love Napoleon--she only fell in love with him when she thought she was Miranda. That whole aspect really isn't addressed at all with the episode (hard to fault the show for that; it's probably too tricky of an idea for such a fun, frothy, escapist show to bother with), and instead it just seems a little abrupt that this great love affair is abandoned in the final scene.<br /><br />I find it hard to blame the creepy drunk THRUSH doctor for wanting to touch Illya's hair. Illya has wonderful hair.Morgan Richterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14479288651753689466noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75557205567764834.post-23195685964845194012017-01-10T18:43:06.202-08:002017-01-10T18:43:06.202-08:00Don't you love it when things conveniently hap...Don't you love it when things conveniently happen off-screen just to try and make things look clean? I think it's funny how the bad guys forget their nefarious schemes as soon as they have Illya tied up and can play with him. The disappointment visible when the doctor is told to do his job is great. In all, seems like a thoroughly nonsensical episode.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14394218397967945441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75557205567764834.post-91221784677624339462017-01-10T11:02:47.109-08:002017-01-10T11:02:47.109-08:00When I started watching Uncle again after all thos...When I started watching Uncle again after all those years, I cautioned myself not to judge it by modern standards, but some episodes have such tonal jerks it would have been annoying fifty years ago.<br /><br />This is opposite of last week's episode where Margo and Napoleon are presented in a playful, frisky relationship and then Margo is suddenly blown away.<br /><br />Here Napoleon and Irina are in an intriguing, adult relationship and then suddenly forget all about each other. I realize that Napoleon could not have a serious relationship, but a wistful sigh about what might have been would not have been out of step with the times or the show I think. <br /><br />Given Irina's judo skills and that she saved Napoleon and Illya's butts, Mr. Waverly would have been better off recruiting her as an agent than buying her a judo studio. Heavens knows Uncle could use a competent agent and sorely needs to up their quota of female agents. <br /><br /><br />montereysnowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12337328048147956191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75557205567764834.post-28739922974259809292017-01-09T18:07:03.290-08:002017-01-09T18:07:03.290-08:00I thought some of the scenes between Fake Miranda ...I thought some of the scenes between Fake Miranda and Napoleon had quite a Season One feeling to them, probably because they were more serious in tone than most of Season Three. They even touched on the "dirtier" aspects of Napoleon's profession, which is usually ignored in favour of hijinks in this era. Still, I'm not surprised that the powers behind the scenes brushed over the "love" subplot in the end - 1) because they can't give Napoleon an ongoing relationship with the Girl of the Week, and 2) Irina is nothing like Fake Miranda (with whom Napoleon was falling in love!)<br /><br />(Illya's hair, btw--wouldn't we all like to stroke Illya's hair? They could have made an episode about it: "The Illya's Hair Affair"!)vintagehoarderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16712215159631487676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75557205567764834.post-90458622943496485752017-01-09T07:11:34.687-08:002017-01-09T07:11:34.687-08:00Hee! That makes no sense but sounds so much more ...Hee! That makes no sense but sounds so much more delightful than the last episode. Fake Miranda is a nice surprise, the way she suddenly defeats assassins.DKorenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05819702518388146971noreply@blogger.com