#was reading thru some old mash posts and my post on hepatitis had a gr8 take that was kinda buried in a review of the ep
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Hawkeye not being emotionally repressed as a person, but still being emotionally repressed because he's in a situation that causes him to feel impossibly intense emotions that can't be fully expressed without ruining his or others' lives.
Because to really express his true feelings he'd have to scream until his voice gave out, desert, kill a general, etc. Constantly feeling like he's barely holding himself back, keeping himself from exploding through the relatively minor shows of rebellion and antagonism towards people like Frank, and his humour. "Joking is the only way I can open my mouth without screaming."
Hawkeye's breakdown in GFA is a fitting cap for his character for many reasons, and I think this is also one of them. It just makes narrative sense, as someone who does need to express his feelings and who is trapped in a war zone, that at some point he had to fully snap and drive a jeep through a wall.
#was reading thru some old mash posts and my post on hepatitis had a gr8 take that was kinda buried in a review of the ep#but like viewing it like this makes hawkeye getting psychosomatic back pain make sense imo#not that he's conflicted about having been drafted like potter bizarrely suggests but that he can't actually express how he really feels#because to express that emotion fully would fuck a lot of shit up#mash#marley on mash#hawkeye mash
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