#fallen idol

[dyingroses]

M*A*S*H Monday!

[mash4077confessions]

[holly-ilex-artworks]

Fallen Idol has got me f***ed up 😭😭😭

Hawkeye’s “anger”, which was really just poorly masked panic and fear, Radar’s “disappointment”, which was just poorly masked confusion and hurt and defensive anger, and Potter’s just like “JFC everyone lived and nobody died and just do better in the future and THERAPY. BIG THERAPY after this is all over” 😩😩

I love this episode for all the very real fear and love twisted together 💕

(Also I’m just picturing Hawk smooching Radar’s little shoulder every time he sees him as repentance)

[beej-honnecticutt]

Yesterday I finally re-watched Fallen Idol ( Season 6, episode 3 ) and I was thinking what to put in my review. I didn’t wanna make it as the other ones, ‘cause it’s such a different episode.

I just wanted to quickly kind of explain what everyone did, and just encourage everyone to watch it cause it’ll break your heart.

Alan Alda’s acting- Hawkeye’s pain is PALPABLE, as is his regret. I was in awe for the whole thing.

Potter, Mulcahy, and Houlihan being so mad that they yell, scream, or even threaten him.

Radar standing up against Hawkeye.

BJ being the only comforting presence. He must’ve been just as mad as anyone else, maybe just as disappointed too.

But he knows how Hawkeye feels, and why he fucked up so badly. So, BJ doesn’t yell at him, he knows he already feels bad enough. He doesn’t make excuses, he’s not going to ignore Hawk was an asshole. He’s just there, listening, understanding.

He’s the unconditional comfort, always there to make Hawk a little less alone🙃

Potter at the end telling Radar that he has to eventually forgive Hawkeye, knowing that their relationship is too good to let it go to waste because of a few rotten words said from a place of pain, anxiousness, and fear.

This episode broke me.

I love them all so much😭

[mashandmartinis]

Just watched Fallen Idol for the first time and damn that was a good episode. I thought I knew what to expect when I saw 'written & directed by Alan Alda' but ohh boy nothing could've prepared me for that

[meimeiherokitten]

Yeah. Neil Gaiman. Ive been quiet up til now and it just isnt happening anymore. Damn it, you were everything I wanted to be. To quote a great movie, I used to look up to you, but now I can't look at you at all. As a writer, I feel let down. As a fan, i feel betrayed. As a SA survivor, I feel utterly shattered.

This takes so much from me. From all of us. You were our champion online and our escape on the page. What the actual fuck do we do now?!

I used to want to be like you. Now I have to make it my goddamn mission to be what you should have been.

[thebreakfastgenie]

#alan alda what were you trying to say when you wrote this episode @stroyent

The wild thing is apparently he was trying to say "it's weird that they drink all the time and also get called into surgery unexpectedly all the time and this is fine" and feeling guilty about Radar was originally just a reason for Hawkeye to get extra drunk.

[mashpoll]

Round 1 | Match 58

Captains Outrageous

Fallen Idol

Voting ended onOct 9, 2023

Captains Outrageous (s8 e13): Father Mulcahy's promotion is once again trapped in red tape, and the MASH staff must tend bar after tending to a wounded Rosie.

Fallen Idol (s6 e3): Hawkeye blames himself for Radar getting wounded, then lashes out at him.