Goodbye, Fairwell, and Amen......a missed opportunity.
John Tidwell
the perfect opportunity to bring back Trapper, Col. Blake, & Frank Burns
"one more time". They have Hawkeye sitting in the padded room & more than
likely on meds of some sort. Who's to say that Hawk couldn't have "visitors".
Oh well, I would have liked to see them again.
John Tidwell
Write your message after a long day & don't use spell checker!
That's Goodbye, FAREWELL, & Amen.
DOH!!!
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Brad
Yeah, and Ugly John and Spearchucker too. And Col. Flagg. And Radar of
course. How about Lt. Dish?
Seriously though, I think there's probably one key flaw in having Col.
Blake in G.F.A. Does anybody or everybody know what it is?
I don't think Frank would have been in the least interested in coming
back to Korea to visit Hawkeye, and I think Hawkeye would have been
even less interested in seeing Frank.
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Brad
Stacy
I assumed he meant that Hawkeye would be imagining these people
(making an appearance by Henry possible), not that they would trek to
Korea for a heart to heart, but either way, I think it would have been
too much. More X-Files than M*A*S*H. IMO, Hawkeye got crazy enough in
GFA as it was.
Stacy
DoniaCorp
> back to Korea to visit Hawkeye, and I think Hawkeye would have been
> even less interested in seeing Frank.
I think the original poster is alluding to the possibility that
Hawkeye's "visitors" could be hallucinations, either as a result of
his psychosis or the medicines he's taking for it.
An interesting idea. I tend to think, however, that the show had
changed so much by the time it ended that the earlier characters would
have seemed very out of place.
TD
John Tidwell
Hawkeye smother a baby, I don't think a few hallucinations would have
mattered. I've always pictured it as Hawkeye fighting his madness by drawing
on memories of friend & foe.
Speaking of X-Files,(or in this case maybe Twilight Zone), do you remember
the MASH episode with the parade of dead soldiers?
John
Brad
> mouse...@hotmail.com (Brad) wrote in message news:<bd359988.01071...@posting.google.com>...
> >
> > I don't think Frank would have been in the least interested in coming
> > back to Korea to visit Hawkeye, and I think Hawkeye would have been
> > even less interested in seeing Frank.
My fault. I must have misunderstood the original question.
>
> I think the original poster is alluding to the possibility that
> Hawkeye's "visitors" could be hallucinations, either as a result of
> his psychosis or the medicines he's taking for it.
I don't think it was really M*A*S*H's style to do that sort of
television. I think the plight of Hawkeye was over-dramatized in GFA
already without him having to face characters from the past.
>
> An interesting idea. I tend to think, however, that the show had
> changed so much by the time it ended that the earlier characters would
> have seemed very out of place.
Yeah, I'll admit it's interesting, but hacky.
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Brad
ScottSPM
> Speaking of X-Files,(or in this case maybe Twilight Zone), do you remember
> the MASH episode with the parade of dead soldiers?
And the one where they all had nightmares... man that scared me to death
when I was a kid and is giving me gooseflesh right now thinking about
it. Columbia House never released that one.
ScottSPM
MOFTAP
>Hawkeye smother a baby
I haven't seen GFA for a while, but did Hawkeye actually smother the baby, or
did the mom end up smothering it because of Hawkeye yelling at her to keep the
baby quiet?
George Hiebert
> > An interesting idea. I tend to think, however, that the show had
> > changed so much by the time it ended that the earlier characters would
> > have seemed very out of place.
>
> Yeah, I'll admit it's interesting, but hacky.
I dunno, maybe Hawk just hearing the voices of Henry or Trap, like having a
conversation inside his mind with his old buds as a way of working things
out, could've been kinda cool.
I know, it's a stretch.
John Tidwell
Short term memory gone, long term memory going, diapers just around the
corner.
The mother did it & Hawk felt responsible.
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Chadd VanZanten
>Ever since the final episode 1st aired, I've thought that they wasted
>the perfect opportunity to bring back Trapper, Col. Blake, & Frank Burns
>"one more time". They have Hawkeye sitting in the padded room & more than
>likely on meds of some sort. Who's to say that Hawk couldn't have "visitors".
Wow, that's an amazingly good idea, kinda. I suspect both Stephenson and Linville
were really showing their years by that time, but wow that is a cool idea. Not so
much for the merits of having a curtain call, but because it could have actually
put the notion of Pierce's insanity to good use. It could have been all creepy
but funny and wry.
Sounds like something out of the world of fan fiction.
Okay then,
Chadd
joan harkness
talking to the dead soldier then they sure as hell could have done that.
That would have rocked. it would have made the finale a lot better than it
was. and the old cast members could have also been apart of the finale. I
always thought the final show was overrated. the whole storyline about
Hawkeye blocking out the mother killing the baby took up to much of the
show. when he finally returned to the the camp, then it was fine.
.H.
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AlanAlda1Fan
like it this is my opinion and everyone has a right to disagree with me if they
like.
From A Big Alan Alda & M*A*S*H Fan Kirsten
George Hiebert
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Is this the end of an era? How come you're not capitalizing the first letter
of each word??
joan harkness
.H.
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John Tidwell
different reasons. I thought that putting Hawkeye in the psycho ward was
the most compelling & promising part of the show. I was really being drawn
in. Once the show switched back to camp, I found it to be as lame as most
of the latter year shows. Heck, for my money they could have let most of the
show take place in the rubber room & have the entire cast past & present
duke it out for Hawkeye's sanity. We could have had a tag team match pitting
Trapper & BJ against Frank Burns & Flagg. I imagine some of the folks on
the list will say "that's too far out there" or "it's over the line", but
hell, that's what made M*A*S*H great when it WAS great. The best shows were
the ones that didn't play it safe by following the usual idiotic TV formula.
Look what they did to Klinger over the years. When he first appeared on the
show, it was funny, but there was still an element of danger about the guy.
It's like they "Fonzied" him for mass appeal. By the time it was all over,
Klinger was as dangerous as Radar's teddy bear.
I don't know if it was all the writers' fault or whether some of the actors
got so much clout that they were able to dictate creative direction to foist
off their personal agendas. All I know is that when it went bad it went very
bad. And that's a shame.
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AlanAlda1Fan
them don't read them them and learn to respect my opinions.
From A Big Alan Alda M*A*S*H Fan Kirsten
Cindy
the episode where Klinger saw the dead guy's spirit when he was sick.
If they put that on, Hawkeye having visions of previous charachters
including a dead Henry Blake wouldn't be too much of a stretch.
joan harkness
.H.
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Robert D. Baker
John Tidwell wrote in message
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>Thanks Stacy, that's what I meant. Let's face it, once they decided to have
>Hawkeye smother a baby,
Uhm, that's not what happened.
Mibbitmaker
did anyone here think of the idea that Elsig mentioned in the Newsweek issue
that came out when the finale aired? The idea included Hawkeye adressing the
audience about not being able to capture the real pain and dying of war on a tv
show at the end.
It was suggested by the magazine that nobody'd take it that far(something to
that effect). I don't know about the idea per se, but if it WAS done, it would
make sense in the episode suggested in the 1st post here.
joe crouse
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