sheer elegance in its simplicity!

Okay, so I have a plan. And a plot, but mostly a plan.

See, I'm loving Man From U.N.C.L.E.. So the plan is this: I'm going to start telling you all several things from each episode that delight me, and hope will delight you all as well. (I'll try to stop at just five items.)

The plot is this: and then you will all fall in love with the show too! (Inadvertent side-effect: revealing just how much TV I watch in my free time, but that can't be helped.)

Okay, ready? We'll start with ( 1.06 The Green Opal Affair )

yeah, Napoleon, stop dragging poor Illya into your whirling mess of plots and schemes

More Five Things about The Man From U.N.C.L.E.! I've decided to stop LJ-cutting them (the better to pimp you with, my dear...) until someone complains. :)

1.07 "The Giuoco Piano Affair"

1. Napoleon: "They know me; if I were to show up in the area, they'd try and kill me. Would that help anything?" Waverly: "Only Mr. Kuryakin. Who's next in line for promotion."

2. Illya's idea of a gift to a pretty woman? Half a burned life preserver from an enemy's exploded yacht. (And the man just can't help kibitzing on someone else's chess game. Or reading someone else's typing over their shoulder. I love him.)

3. Gun in a lighter! Spy gadgets are the best. :D

4. Did Napoleon really just a) deftly employ a complex chess metaphor (*swoon*) and b) call Illya his "white knight"?

5. You don't see helicopters that can land on water much anymore. Why is that?