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when hawkeye smiles properly and his eyes go all soft... someone kill me now

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Favorite Season 2 M*A*S*H Episodes As Voted By You -> #4: Carry On, Hawkeye

"Yeah, I- Yes, I know- I know I'm a capable young surgeon. Let me add I have good prospects and I'm a great catch, but I'm not looking for a husband!"

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The nod and smile is what kills me. Jennifer's Body who?

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the thing about The M*A*S*H Timeloop is that it feels a little too on-the-nose for me and makes literal what was already readily apparent in the themes of the show and characters. it feels redundant to me; time already loops in the very real, very visceral sense that War Never Changes, that violence and trauma begets more of the same, and that you can almost never psychologically escape a place like that even years after you physically leave it. tacking a magical timeloop onto it feels too metatextual, like the narrative equivalent of a paragraph where every sentence is highlighted, or those big red arrows and circles on youtube thumbnails. it's superfluous.

i feel like it misses the forest for the trees and focuses on the wrong things— the understanding of fiction as "situation happens to characters" and not as "ideas are conveyed using situations and characters as symbolic inanimate tools". putting hawkeye et al in a timeloop might seem like it would add a lot if he really was a person in a place, but he's not; he's a character in a work of fiction, which itself is a means for telling a story and making social commentary, and hawkeye has a purpose and a function he serves to the audience beyond the superficial, highly manufactured illusion of whole personhood by which that communicative function is fulfilled.

what would be added to the narrative by a few extra turns of the gears in the meat grinder? what could a timeloop do to anyone there that could possibly be worse than what already happened? a mash timeloop just retreads the same ground. it's tautological; no statement is being made, and if anything it compromises the statements already there by presupposing that mash as a show is about the mash rather than about war.

mash aired during the vietnam war... when 70s audiences were watching mash, it was between TV news segments showing the soldier and the bodies and the casualties on screen; the war was delivered right into their living rooms for the first time ever. it was already saying, "this has happened before," because when mash was airing, it was already happening again.

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the right way to watch mash is you take 11 string beans, 1 onion, half a radish, and 4 banamnas. you mix it all up and you let it soak for six weeks. days. you’d better write this down. then you look around and you find the tallest tree, and you hang the stuff in an emena bag. and you let it lay there for eighteen weeks. days.

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Which "Super Sad, I'll have scars for life" MASH episode are you?

Which "Super Sad, I'll have scars for life" MASH episode are you?

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imagine being a mash fan in 1975 and still reeling from the death of a beloved main-cast character at the end of the last season and then being barely into the next and seeing on tv guide or whatever that your next episode is "the late captain pierce." i'd lose my mind

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M*A*S*H | 3.07 - "Check-up"

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imagine the pandemonium that would ensue if Trapper and BJ played poker together

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I’ll also say re. my last reblog that I hate the episode “War Co-Respondent” because of the way Aggie is written. They could’ve done something interesting with her as a woman in an almost exclusively male-dominated field, but no, let’s just have her pine after BJ

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M*A*S*H (TV series)

M*A*S*H (TV Series, 1972)

Explain your reasoning in the tags!

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If it weren’t for “Goodbye Cruel World” season 8 would be a candidate for my favorite season

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I made a uQuiz about which m*a*s*h character you are but i’m really mean about every single answer

Reblog and let me know who you got!!!

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saw this twt post and had an epiphany