some potential s1 Hawkeye saintliness screenshots for your perusal
1. yankee doodle doctor (courtesy of @genderqueer-klinger) -- the best thing is of course that it’s a joke on their part... and yet.... somethingsomething awareness of Narrative
2. sticky wicket (thinking about the patient he doesn’t know what’s wrong with -- compare to above episode)
also him wanting to be left alone with his thoughts/suffering/flagellation feels some kinda way -- he seems genuinely desperate when he pleads with Trapper (and the nurse who’s just been very strongly coming onto him) to leave him alone
3. edwina (yes this is a joke, but... sometimes Saintliness is just about if the suffering of the martyr is beautiful and):
4. in “sort of jokes but depends on how you decide to read the scene” there’s also bananas crackers and nuts, when he pretends to be in love with Frank (but what if he’s actually thinking abou- gets sniped)
5. sometimes you hear the bullet (of course) -- I’m adding the crying moment, however I actually think in terms of Saintliness it’s when he’s in the surgery and becomes aware of the fact that Tommy will die and he has to keep working
6. and ceasefire -- okay I don’t know... I don’t know if it’s Saintliness, but it is something desperately and burningly and screamingly hoping turning into crushing despair
so first the intensity of hope
(Hawkeye to Trapper: you really don’t believe it’s real? the way he asks like he needs Trapper to believe it’s real and Trapper won’t indulge him, it’s like the first time Trapper has genuinely let him down)
and then the building despair
