#oh and i've actually never watched tmfu series before! so it's all new to me

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I am living for your Man from UNCLE rewatch because I'm in the middle of a rewatch of the early years of NCIS (with David McCallum) and it's so fun to see him in his early days.

Isn't it?? I'm so glad someone else is getting Something out of my current fixation lol. But Ducky was always one of my favorite parts of NCIS and I knew Gibbs' early remark to Kate about what Ducky looked like in his younger days being "picture Illya Kuryakin" was a reference but it's so fun seeing him here.

Fun facts I have learned are that David/Illya was originally just supposed to be the bit part sidekick but everyone loved David so much they made his role bigger. David also apparently had a bad reaction to penicillin in the early days and ended up in the hospital where he passed the time by coming up with ways to improve his character and he decided to make Illya vague and taciturn and mysterious and the fans ate. it. up. David is also, reportedly by MGM, the actor to receive the most fanmail at the studio from any of their productions to date.

(I stopped watching ncis when Tony left and I definitely haven't had the heart to watch Ducky's ending episodes - but I saw they gave him a lil corgi named Solo 😭😭😭😭 I hope you are enjoying your rewatch! The early few seasons were the best imho.)