5 reasons to watch

[xparrot]

For everyone on the flist who's been looking at my recent posts, wondering what the heck is up with my latest obsession: five graphic reasons to watch The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

1) Because in the '60s, they hadn't yet invented the concept of "personal space."


Or at least David McCallum & Robert Vaughn never got the memo.









2) Bondage. Seriously. Someone on this show had a kink.




As I was saying...


3) The love affairs never interfere with the partnership - they just add spice.


"I think you're going to need me."








4) Turns out, the standards of male pulchritude have not changed significantly in the last forty years.






Mmmm~


5) If you don't watch, you'll never know what's actually going on here:*


*THE FINE PRINT: Even after you watch, you'll still have no idea what is actually going on.

Comments

[severedscythe.livejournal.com]

And more and more I want to watch this show. *flails*

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Waaaaatch iiiiiit! *tempt tempt tempt*

[spike21.livejournal.com]

mmmmmmm. very night, Pimp Daddy. *g*

Any thoughts on where a theoretical person could find theoretical downloads?

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Welllll, if someone, theoretically, didn't have DVD rentals like NetFlix handy, they might try bittorrent, particularly demonoid.com.

Or else one can let me know, and I can provide alternate avenues...

[bluemeanybeany.livejournal.com]

Ah! What beautiful pictures xparrot. They personal spaces ones certainly are most interesting. Of course the real five reasons to watch can be summed up like this 1. Illya 2. Illya in wet t-shirts 3. Illya in pain 4. Illya and 5. did I mention Illya. However there are certainly many, many, many other good reasons to watch nicely illustrated by you here.

I also contribute exhibit A, B, and C to further your case;

http://i714.photobucket.com/albums/ww149/Shovewood/forgn1011.jpg

http://i714.photobucket.com/albums/ww149/Shovewood/thecommunicatorpenandanopenminda-1.jpg

http://i714.photobucket.com/albums/ww149/Shovewood/JapaneseMagSm1.jpg

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Ahahahah I was totally thinking of putting pretty much just the list you wrote! I might do a follow-up list. Or three. Because there is a lot of Illya to share...

And the pics, mmmm...oh man, that first pic, is that from The Foreign Legion Affair? eeeee. And the "kiss", naturally, is fantastic. And I almost put up that last pic myself, as more proof of the lack of personal space (seriously, where is RV's arm going there?!) - though I didn't because I haven't been able to figure out where it's from, is it a set-photo or what? (also DMc's makeup freaks out my friend. I find it bizarrely hawt, myself, but...)

[wneleh.livejournal.com]

I've seen it argued that slash was born out of the no-personal-space thing, which, the argument goes, is a product of the demands of the television screen. To have more than one recognizable person in a shot, they had to be pretty close together, especially in the early days of TV.

I don't think this is entirely true, but it certainly gives us fuel! (Smarm fuel too, of course :-) )

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

I think the no-personal-space definitely helped the slash along, but there's more to it than that. And I've also heard that they stuck actors close together so they'd be recognizable on tiny TV screens - but that's not really borne out in these pics, as a lot of them aren't that close-up; there's plenty more room on the screen around them. They could keep a hands-breadth between them without spoiling the shots...but I rather prefer it like this ^_^

(I actually think it's more that TV shows - American ones, anyway - have gotten weirder about personal space recently...when you watch bloopers/behind the scenes for most shows, the actors tend to touch more than they do in the actual shows...sigh! I don't really care if it's slashy or smarmy, I love the touchy-feely!)

[utopiantrunks.livejournal.com]

Mmm, pretty screencaps. Eek, the touchy lack of personal space!! ♥♥♥

LOL In the last picture, Napoleon looks like he doesn't even know what the fuck is going on. Perhaps he's really looking at the director. "Dude, seriously... What is my motivation??"

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

I could put up a dozen more lack-of-personal-space 'caps, that's the best part. No hugs but gosh are they snuggly!

and the director replies, "Really, I think your motivation is obvious, no?" and hands him the KY... XDDDD

[vamysteryfan.livejournal.com]

That next to last one is to die for.

And yeah, some of the writers definitely had a kink

RV looked great in those light gray suits. But do you have none of Illya in the black turtleneck?

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I want a better version of the Illya-speedbump pic so badly...that's the largest I've been able to find, sigh.

RV is dashing (as Illya says)...and Illya's black turtleneck, ah yes! obviously I will have to pic-spam more...

[tasabian.livejournal.com]

Wow, the bondage shots are kinky indeed!

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Heh, and I didn't even mention the whips or the riding crops (and no, I am not making this up XD)

[raiining.livejournal.com]

Actually, this show looks pretty awesome! Is it on DVD?

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

This show is totally awesome! It's silly and campy and cheesy, but it's also a ton of fun. And the scripts (especially of the 1st season) are quite clever, and the guys have fantastic, snarktastic chemistry (the SGA guys have nothing on the MUNCLE guys when it comes to snark.) ...Also David McCallum is hot like a tiny blond thing is hot. Yow.

It's on R1 DVD...and there are other ways to obtain it, if one is curious...

[joonscribble.livejournal.com]

I remember that episode the last photo is from.

And yeah, I still don't know what's happening there.

HEE!

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

I kind of love the episode for the incredible camp (Martin Landau makes a great faux-vampire) and that moment is the icing on the rubber-bat cake - it's so amazingly WTF!

PS. your icon is <33333

[tanndell.livejournal.com]

You're preaching to the choir as far as I'm concerned, but please don't let that stop you. There can never be enough of pretty men with no concept of personal space huddling up to each other. There can never be enough Illya Kuryakin.
But I have to admit that much as I love the no-personal-space rule (and I do, I really do), I also really enjoy those momentary breakdowns between men who normally resist intruding on each others personal space, except when they really can't help themselves. Ahh, reluctant slash... it is a fine thing.

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Heh - the personal space thing is so different on modern (American) TV, where everyone keeps their distance, so any kind of contact is super-charged. In MFU it's so casual...but so cute!

...My problem is that I love hugs (platonic, slashy, whatever) and there's none of those, sigh... (putting aside a certain A-team episode.) But then about the only show I watch that gives me anywhere near my recommended embrace allotment is New Who... XD

[sp23.livejournal.com]

I haven't watched The Man From U.N.C.L.E. since it first aired which I was a young girl. Obviously, I must needs rewatch with my grown-up shiny slash goggles firmly in place. LOL

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Whether you take them as slash or gen, they're wildly adorable partners! I'm sad I didn't see the show when I was a wee thing, I think I would've loved it...

[nikojen.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm sold. DVD #1 is winging it's way from netflix as I type. ^_^

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

AHAHAH I WIN! XDDDD

[ezazahaz.livejournal.com]

You had me until 5--I'm pretty sure that picture can't be any more awesome in context. :)

But seriously, with your and epicycles's squee about this show, I really have got to watch it. Oh, buttsex subtext...

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Heh, yeah, that pic is pretty spectacular. In context it's just WTF (honestly, I have no idea what Napoleon is doing. He should be helping Illya stand, but, um, that's not what he's doing!)

Putting aside the subtext, it's a crazy fun show. Well, if you like cracky '60s semi-camp, anyway. But it can be witty, and it's also one of those shows that all the actors are obviously having a blast making idiots of themselves, which is always entertaining...

[georgiamagnolia.livejournal.com]

that is a fine set of pics from one of my all time fav shows, YOU=WIN!

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Pic-spamming is fun - I might have to do it again! Gives me an excuse to rewatch the pretty ^___^

[nerowill.livejournal.com]

Heh. Makes me realize why my aunt has been so fixated on the two of them for the past 40 years... ;)

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Hee - I'm far too much of a fandom butterfly to stay that loyal to any series, but I can understand why some fans could, with these guys...they are really incredibly appealing!

[jx-walker.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the lovely pictures. I keep looking at the DVD set, but at over $150.00 it's out of my reach. So I appreciate the pics.

[jx-walker.livejournal.com]

Oh, I was looking at pic's I'd downloaded - not as good quality - and there is one in Karate Killers in the UNCLE control room and Napoleon is right behind Illya and they are looking practically in each others eyes. Unfortunately it's too blurred, I think they are from tape. Could you look? That one has them in white shirts and shoulder holsters as well. Yum.

Illya was my first big crush, before I even knew what that was. Very young.

[epicycles.livejournal.com]

Lovely picspam! Particularly Point 4...and point 2...point 1...all of them, really... This will certainly help in my pimping to ezazahaz.

I, however, do not need the pimping, because I am currently sitting next to the DVD boxset which is *entirely* your fault. There I was, innocently stalking your lj for sga fic, and then bam! New fandom! *blames xparrot*

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

AHAHAH I WIN!! --er, I mean, sorry? But it's so much fun, in a completely silly way! Hope you enjoy yourself with it as much as I am ^__^

[certainlysandy.livejournal.com]

That last pic is just plain evil. Don't tell me the writers/directors didn't know what they were doing. Or that RV and DMC were innocent either. They played it for all it was worth. And yes, Illya was my first major crush, eons before I saw the slash. MFU had it all, snark, hurt/comfort, bondage, partner whumping, wet t-shirt contests, and lines like "You have something that belongs to me." And hair! Don't forget the hair.

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Oh, I am sure the creators and actors knew exactly what they were doing - there's just way too much of this stuff for them not to know! The slashy lines, too (or the partnershippy lines - gen or slash, they're awful sweet together!)

[nangi-akki.livejournal.com]

Great pics - that last one is definitely a classic. There's a similar moment in "The Off Broadway Affair" that always cracks me up. I can't find a screencap of it but you can find it at 1:17 of vysila's excellent MFU vid here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A6aBt0SQho

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Ahhhhhh THAT'S where that scene was from! I couldn't remember it at all, watching the vid I thought it might have been manipped footage. But no, the show really is that good to us. Heee~!

[ender24]

hell. wow. *speechless*

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Ahahah seriously, there's a reason I'm fanning ^___^

[ashley-pitt.livejournal.com]

I have been in love with DMc since 1964......

and he just gets better with age.

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

I gotta admit, I find it...disconcerting...that he can still bring it when he's almost my grandmother's age... ^^;;;;

[lamardeuse.livejournal.com]

That last shot, oh my god. :D

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Honestly. I mean...

Yes.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Lest we forget some of the great dialog, including Illya flirting with Napoleon about listening to his "javelin-throwing days", and of course, the guy with the massively heightened senses shouting up at Napoleon from a great distance, saying "I know what you were doing! I see the blond hair on your lapel shoulder!" Or something like that.

Man, I have to go open up my DVD spy suitcase and watch the Gurnius Affair now...

And I'm sure you know the fun trivia about The Strigas Affair, yes?

[shayheyred.livejournal.com]

And the guy reading Illya's mind: "You are thinking about a man..."

[vivic-08.livejournal.com]

Love every pic. They are so adorable together. Love them and I love the show!!

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised it took me this long to see the show - making up for lost time now, though!

[aqualegia.livejournal.com]

OOh! MUNCLE pictures - I wandered over here from gnine's LJ - This was my first major fandom - where there were fan newsletters and zines. I can't wait for the whole series to be released over here.

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Hee, I'm kind of disappointed I didn't watch this show years ago - it could've easily been one of my first fandoms as well, had I been exposed to it back then. But I am enjoying it now, so...better late than never!