Waterlog

[truepenny]

TIME: 50 min.
DISTANCE: 5.5 mi.
TOTAL DISTANCE: 95.4 mi.
DISTRACTION: "The Vulcan Affair" (The Man from U.N.C.L.E. 1.1)
NOTES: Napoleon Solo runs like a girl.
SHIRE-RECKONING: Old Man Willow! AIEEEEEEE!!!

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Although I love all four seasons of The Man from U.N.C.L.E., I have to admit the first season episodes, with their moody noir atmosphere, beautiful B&W cinematography, and delicate moral ambiguity, are the ones I admire most. And I love this episode, in 1964, for letting the housewife rescue the spy.

Comments

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

He values their innocence. (The bit at the end where he's watching Elaine and her family and is clearly delighted--but not wistful. He likes his life.) Also, his taste in women--insofar as he discriminates, which isn't very far--seems to run toward the ones who could kill him, like Angelique and Serena.

[oracne.livejournal.com]

I always wondered if there WERE many women between cases for Napoleon. One would think yes would be obvious, but I don't think so...maybe not nearly as many as he pretends there are.