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M*A*S*Hy thoughts.
Oct. 2nd, 2003 02:50 amEvery time I go to jumptheshark.com, my brain gets very fucked up and I start questioning the very nature of my existance. Well, no, maybe I'm going too far. Let me rephrase that.
First of all, jts.com is the greatest site in the world. Let me just get that straight. IT IS THE GREATEST SITE IN THE WORLD, hands down. I owe it a major fucking debt of gratitude because if not for jts.com and all the people who posted their opinions of my beloved M*A*S*H, I probably would have never been able to watch it again after that little early June mental thing where if I even thought about Frank I'd start bawling and every LJ entry was me whining about how the show has made me into a basket case. JTS made me realize something about the show, and while I don't know exactly what, reading all the opinions about it, whether I agreed or not, and realizing also that I knew more about the show after a month than some people knew after 20 some years... I dunno, but it changed everything. After that, I stopped screaming through every episode. I stopped forcing myself not to think about it. I (for the most part) stopped dreaming about watching the show and waking up in a cold sweat because of it. It was like a miracle, and I'll never forget it.
Okay, that said, THAT SITE NEVER CEASES TO SCREW WITH MY HEAD!! It makes me realize that nothing grand can last forever and how different my opinion on M*A*S*H is from so many other peoples. Of course, you guys know how much I love Charles and Klinger, and how much I even love the post-Radar episodes, and how I want to boink the brains out of the final season, I love it so much (even though it sometimes fucks up canon and often times makes no sense!). You guys know that I love the "dramedy" aspect of the show, that I want a show that makes me think and has human characters that like each other. You guys know I have very little tolerance for the Trapper-era episodes, and even though I can think of a few that were grand as hell, Trapper annoys the hell out of me and I'd rather have a cast that doesn't severely dislike each other. You guys know that I've heard that Alan Alda tentacle-raped the show and I think it's bullshit. If I need someone to spout war-induced angst in a fic, 9 times out of 10 it's gonna be Hawkeye, and guess what? I LIKE Hawkeye's liberal preachiness, because even though he can annoy the pants off me, if Hawkeye's whining about the horrors of war, most likely Charles is there and Klinger's company clerk, and M*A*S*H angst kicks serious ass besides.
Well, with those opinions the way they are, I'm like... so in the minority it's not even funny. While I know JTS is far from the majority of M*A*S*H fans, it astounded me how many people said that the show's unwatchable... even after Henry leaves. I may not AGREE, but I can see where people would say the quality of the show dips after Radar's departure. But it's not even that so much, it's that there are hundreds of people who say, "If you see Mike Farrell in the credits, RUN." Or, "If you see BJ with a moustache in the credits, RUN." And there are even people who say "If 'Hotlips' is 'Margaret', RUN."
Allow me to... I dunno... post my opinions on the major "shark-jumping" moments in M*A*S*H. Just for fun.
( Everything about you is so easy to love... )
First of all, jts.com is the greatest site in the world. Let me just get that straight. IT IS THE GREATEST SITE IN THE WORLD, hands down. I owe it a major fucking debt of gratitude because if not for jts.com and all the people who posted their opinions of my beloved M*A*S*H, I probably would have never been able to watch it again after that little early June mental thing where if I even thought about Frank I'd start bawling and every LJ entry was me whining about how the show has made me into a basket case. JTS made me realize something about the show, and while I don't know exactly what, reading all the opinions about it, whether I agreed or not, and realizing also that I knew more about the show after a month than some people knew after 20 some years... I dunno, but it changed everything. After that, I stopped screaming through every episode. I stopped forcing myself not to think about it. I (for the most part) stopped dreaming about watching the show and waking up in a cold sweat because of it. It was like a miracle, and I'll never forget it.
Okay, that said, THAT SITE NEVER CEASES TO SCREW WITH MY HEAD!! It makes me realize that nothing grand can last forever and how different my opinion on M*A*S*H is from so many other peoples. Of course, you guys know how much I love Charles and Klinger, and how much I even love the post-Radar episodes, and how I want to boink the brains out of the final season, I love it so much (even though it sometimes fucks up canon and often times makes no sense!). You guys know that I love the "dramedy" aspect of the show, that I want a show that makes me think and has human characters that like each other. You guys know I have very little tolerance for the Trapper-era episodes, and even though I can think of a few that were grand as hell, Trapper annoys the hell out of me and I'd rather have a cast that doesn't severely dislike each other. You guys know that I've heard that Alan Alda tentacle-raped the show and I think it's bullshit. If I need someone to spout war-induced angst in a fic, 9 times out of 10 it's gonna be Hawkeye, and guess what? I LIKE Hawkeye's liberal preachiness, because even though he can annoy the pants off me, if Hawkeye's whining about the horrors of war, most likely Charles is there and Klinger's company clerk, and M*A*S*H angst kicks serious ass besides.
Well, with those opinions the way they are, I'm like... so in the minority it's not even funny. While I know JTS is far from the majority of M*A*S*H fans, it astounded me how many people said that the show's unwatchable... even after Henry leaves. I may not AGREE, but I can see where people would say the quality of the show dips after Radar's departure. But it's not even that so much, it's that there are hundreds of people who say, "If you see Mike Farrell in the credits, RUN." Or, "If you see BJ with a moustache in the credits, RUN." And there are even people who say "If 'Hotlips' is 'Margaret', RUN."
Allow me to... I dunno... post my opinions on the major "shark-jumping" moments in M*A*S*H. Just for fun.
( Everything about you is so easy to love... )
