Was that really necessary?
ADAM CLIFTON
home and everything,killing him off was like a huge slap in the face to the
people that liked that character.
In my opinion Henry Blake was much better than Colonel Potter.
SCANNER
The Shadow
ADAM CLIFTON wrote in message :
I think what they were trying to do is show that in war-time sacrifices are
made even when it is least expected. I don't think his death was a slap in
the face of the viewing public, it was one of the most moving scenes of the
show.
Otis
so that he could never return since they were so made at him leaving
in the first place. Anyway, that was the word on the streets.
Potter came along at a perfect time to let the show mature somewhat.
Blake had his seasons with the 'Animal House' humor but with Potter
they had so much more material. My opinion is the Potter seasons with
Frank Burns still in camp were the over all best. I liked it until Radar
left
and then it became a humanist causes advertisement for me.
OTIS
ADAM CLIFTON wrote in message <01be1bf5$71f87b80$9d4838cb@default>...
>Was killing off Colonel Henry Blake really necessary?I mean he was going
>home and everything,killing him off was like a huge slap in the face to the
>people that liked that character.
>In my opinion Henry Blake was much better than Colonel Potter.
>
>
>SCANNER
George Hiebert
>
> Was killing off Colonel Henry Blake really necessary?I mean he was going
> home and everything,killing him off was like a huge slap in the face to the
> people that liked that character.
> In my opinion Henry Blake was much better than Colonel Potter.
>
> SCANNER
Even the most likeable people get killed in wars. I think that was the
point. Not everyone made it home.
Mark W. Ozburn
several deaths at the 4077th but they were all anonymous. We as an audiance
(in general) couldnt identify with anyone who did die during the show. The
audiance loved Henry and the point was anyone, including our loved ones, can
and do die during a war.
ADAM CLIFTON wrote:
> Was killing off Colonel Henry Blake really necessary?I mean he was going
> home and everything,killing him off was like a huge slap in the face to the
> people that liked that character.
> In my opinion Henry Blake was much better than Colonel Potter.
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>
> Was killing off Colonel Henry Blake really necessary?
Necessary? No. Good idea? Definitely. The point was that war kills
people on both sides, especially good friends and other people who don't
seem to deserve it. The idea that Blake's death still affects people to
this day testifies to its effectiveness.
The death of Henry Blake was a major turning point in the series.
Matt J. McCullar
Arlington, TX
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"Otis" <ot...@abraxis.com> wrote:
> I am sure I will be corrected if wrong, but I heard he was killed off
> so that he could never return since they were so made at him leaving
> in the first place. Anyway, that was the word on the streets.
Sure, it was the word on the streets. Larry Gelbart has stated here and
elsewhere (and more times than I can count) that such was not the case, and I
have to say I believe him.
The producers' motivations entirely aside, it is my firm opinion that killing
off Henry Blake was not only a courageous act but an absolutely brilliant one.
The makers of M*A*S*H laid the cruelties of war open for all to see - both in
"Abyssinia, Henry" and throughout the series - and they did not apologize for
it. As far as I'm concerned, the Messrs. Gelbart, Reynolds, Alda, Metcalfe et
al. deserve as many warm rounds of applause as we have to offer.
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ADAM CLIFTON <sca...@one.net.au> wrote in message
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>Was killing off Colonel Henry Blake really necessary?I mean he was going
>home and everything,killing him off was like a huge slap in the face to the
>people that liked that character.
>In my opinion Henry Blake was much better than Colonel Potter.
>
>
PAUL GADZIKOWSKI
: Was killing off Colonel Henry Blake really necessary?I mean he was going
: home and everything,killing him off was like a huge slap in the face to the
: people that liked that character.
When Henry Blake died I was fifteen and he was my favorite character out
of all fiction because I thought he was the one most like me. I never
considered that his death was a "slap in the face". It made a point that
needed making; now, and I think if I'd been asked then, I think it's
rather a complement that my character should have been used to make that
point.
: In my opinion Henry Blake was much better than Colonel Potter.
I have to admit that Potter, as a stronger person, was a stronger
character. "Better"? That's a matter of taste.
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William
Butterworth, Blake wasn't killed at all?!?!
"M*A*S*H Goes To San Fransisco" says that "despite irresponsible reports to
the contrary
from people who would have known better had they been able to read words of
more than one
syllable, survived the Korean War and achieved high rank". He's now Major
General Henry
Blake, Medical Corps, U.S. Army, commanding general of Walter Reed Army
Medical Center.
I think I've got every novel except "..Montreal" and "..Moscow" and this is
information
I've found about what happned to the other main characters:
HAWKEYE
is married to Mary and got three children: Billy, Stephen and Karen. He
worked for a
while in East Orange,
New Jersey, but then returned to Maine, where he started to work at Spruce
Harbor General
Hospital. Together with his old friends from Korea, he also opened
Finestkind Clinic and
Fishmarket.
TRAPPER
was sent to Okinawa after the truce and then worked at Saint Lombard's in
New York.
Trapper finally joined the others in Spruce Harbor and soon fell in love
with Hawkeye's
secretary Lucinda and later married her.
HOT LIPS
After retiring from the Army Margaret was briefly married to, and widowed
by, Mr. Isadore
Wachauf, Chairman of the Board of Wachauf Metal Recycling, International
(formerly Izzy's
Junkyard). Margaret then went to San Marcos in Brazil as a chief nurse of a
mission
hospital, the Green Inferno Christian Medical Missionary Hospital. She went
to New
Orleans in connection with mission business and met the Reverend Buck
Wilson, founder of
the God-Is-Love-In-All-Forms Christian Church Inc. After a whirlwind
courtship Hot Lips
married Reverend Wilson. He expired on the nuptial couch on their wedding
day, apparently
of a heart seizure brought on by overexertion. Margaret Houlihan Wachauf
Wilson is now
acting as Mother Emeritus of the God-Is-Love-In-All-Forms Christian Church
Inc.
FRANK
Francis Burns, M.D., lives in Hillandale, Ohio, with his wife Louise and
kids. He left
the practice of pediatric medicine and founded the Burns Vasectomological
Institute and
also runs The Burns Loving Family and Zero Population Growth Clinic. He is
social
secretary (with ambition to become president) of the American Tonsil,
Adenoid and Vas
Deferens Society.
About his time in Korea, he calls himself "combat surgeon" and claims to
have been both
chief surgeon of the 4077th MASH and personal medical adviser to General
Douglas
MacArthur.
(M*A*S*H Goes To New Orleans)
MULCAHY
His Eminence John Patrick Mulcahy has become titular Archbishop of
Swengchan (China). Due
to a misunderstanding between his superiors and the Democratic People's
Republic of
China, he has not been able to actually preside over his archdiocese.
In "M*A*S*H Goes To New Orleans" Hawkeye removed a tumor during an
operation upon His
Eminence
RADAR
is called J.Robespierre O'Reilly in the "M*A*S*H Goes To..."-novels and has
started an
international fast-food service operation (Mother O'Reilly's Irish Stew
Parlors).
In "M*A*S*H Goes To Las Vegas", Radar marries Kristina Korsky-Rimsakov,
telephatic sister
of opera singer Boris Korsky-Rimsakov, who appears in several of the
novels. The knot is
firmly tied by Archbishop Mulcahy.
HO-JON
The Korean houseboy they sent to Androscoggin College is now the Director
of Admissions
at Androscoggin. In the novel "M*A*S*H Mania" he helped Hawkeye's
37-year-old
brother-in-law Claremont "Meanstreak" Morse to join the college, finally
becoming the
Chief of Neurological Surgery in Spruce Harbor.
DUKE and SPEARCHUCKER
They left Georgia and Philadelphia respectivally to join Hawkeye and
Trapper in Maine.
PAINLESS
Walter Kosciusko Waldowski, Doctor of Dental Surgery, is now "bald and fat"
and lives in
Hamtramck, Michigan. He's married to Wilma and got one daughter, Wanda.
(M*A*S*H Goes To Miami)
Will Dockery
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