M*A*S*H 4077

The side blog where we use a queer lens to enjoy an over 50 year old show. I also run My Shrink and I Talk About Love

[gloomsday]

this zoom out went absolutely crazy for no reason like sure let's reveal bj hunnicutt lounging sexily on the operating table while intently observing hawkeye yeah thanks for that

[staticklinger]

[robkellycreative]

[artaudmatic]

GOODBYE

[4-0-doublenatural]

I love the implication that Mulcahy is God's special little guy when he wins every single bet he makes.

I also love that meanwhile Mulcahy looks at Hawkeye Pierce a lusty, intemperent agnostic and is like: priest material.

[fleetn-crab85]

the "You Are Glass" song but it's Beejhawk

[thelatecaptainpierce]

M*A*S*H - 1x11: Germ Warfare

[greenares]

[soft-october-night]

[alansalda]

the greatest love story of our time already exists, and we can never duplicate it, no two actors can quite replicate the chemistry needed to play up its conclusion, it wouldn’t be made today and yet it’s what every show runner in hollywood thinks they’re doing. i’m talking about goodbye, farewell and amen.

[strangegoingson]

[mariekristina]

Oh, don't mind me, I'm just over here making myself sad thinking about how Margaret greets two very important men in her life. With Donald, she's like a teenager, so excited for her superawesome (Margaret's "words", not mine) boyfriend (husband) to show up so she can show him off. Her whole body language is so bouncy, and those little squeals of delight when she greets him just makes me so sad. We know things haven't been great between them, and she has decided to forgive his indiscretions, and it's just so clear how she more than anything just projects images of a perfect husband onto him. In her mind he's everything she wants him to be, and her whole being is just an embodiment of that fantasy.

And then, her beaming but contained smile when her father pulls up to camp, the hug he immediately reprimands her for. How she goes from calling him dad, to sir, to colonel in five seconds, getting farther away from familiarity with every word. It also breaks my heart how important it is for her to show off her nurses - the sharpest ones in Korea - just like a little girl wanting to show off something she made in school, hearing her father say she did good. But, of course, he doesn't. And the way she feels so controlled and held back with her father, like she is constantly aware of her movements, except for the hug, that unfortunate slip. Ugh, such great acting!

All of this makes me think of "Our Finest Hour", when Margaret talks about the people at the 4077 as family. The people there are everything Donald and her father are not, and also the ones with the biggest pieces of her heart.

[m--bloop]

S5E6 - "The Abduction of Margaret Houlihan"

[vieneinpace]

William Etty's Male Nude, with Arms Up-Stretched (1828) revamped by Astra Zero

[m--bloop]

S5E13 - "Hawk's Nightmare"

[4-0-7-7]

LMAO

[bracketsandunderscores]

I can't believe dreams is only rated around a 6-7/10 ??? this shit is amazing. It shows that literally everyone is suffering, even the people who act strong. It reinforces the theme that all children are innocent. it gives insight into Mulcahy and Charles' fear of their own attitudes, Margaret and BJ's fears of being literally married to their jobs and being left behind in the process, of Hawkeye's fear of failure, of Klinger's fear of nothingness after Korea. It gives us so much depth to what was previously lacking without the need for anything to be lightened in order to appeal to the audience. It's such a needed episode for everyone.