raaadaaarrrrr. radar wake up its 3:29 am. can yuo call the president of france.we have something to say to him. While youre at it we have this great idea for a prank can you get us some flammable liquids for it. dont worry about it
Hands down when he very heavily implied, to the point where he basically outright said, that Hawkeye isn't missing out on as much as BJ is by not being home. He never apologizes for it in PoA and Charles et. al are aware of the punch but not that other jab.
He also does it again in season 10 Wheelers and Dealers in an arguably worse way to Margaret (when you consider that in 'The Birthday Girls' one of her insecurities is that she hasn't accomplished all the typical life milestones she thought she may have... woof) who calls him out but the framing of it is basically the show agreeing with BJ's worldview on whose loved ones are worth the most. The latter (the framing) is the worse crime imo, really shitty ideological moment for MASH and a far cry from the early years which took plenty of shots at the nuclear family.
i think the thing that bothers me most about the ideas that hawkeye doesn’t do well after the war is that i think it goes against hawkeye’s entire thesis as a character . because , at least to me , the most notable thing about hawkeye is his resilience . over and over again hawk hits rock bottom , and every time he gets himself to GET UP GET UP GET UP even if , especially if, it’s not fair , even if it KILLS him . even in his lowest point in the whole show , when he feels like he doesn’t have anyone on his side , he’s still insistent that he WILL get out of it . i’ve heard people complain about how hawkeye is sensitive and how he doesn’t really change throughout the entirety of the show , but what is that if not the point ? anything and everything in hawkeye’s situation can kick him as far down as it wants but that man will gladly drag himself foot by foot and inch by inch out of hell than let himself be beat by it even if he has to do it all by himself
What's up MASHblr I went to the National Museum of American History last week and they had the signpost on display and I was sooo normal about it I swear