lord_cellytron | Giggle.

Yay. First episode was the Polaroid episode. SO EFFIN CUTE. Miserable, Angsty!Maxie is the good. His eyes in that last scene, almost brimming with hopeless tears... SEKSHII. Poor boi. CHARLES WILL SAVE YOOOOOOOU... even though he doesn't. BUT HE TRIES!! ;_;

The second episode... well... um.

This extremely famous writer came to write about the war, and the whole camp was totally obsessed and idol-worshippy over him. Anyway, Hawkeye finds out that he basically makes up all his stories with only a tiny basis on fact and he gets all pissed off. The other subplot was this kid who crashed his motorcycle, and BJ fixed it up, only to have Clay run off and steal it and drive into the countryside.

Now, what I don't get is... was it Clay's *intention* to crash his motorcycle? I guess it wasn't, because he was drunk, but I don't understand his motivation. He said he wanted to go out and see the "real" war, but instead what happened was he fell down on top of his bottle of hooch and broke a bunch of glass in his ass. So Hawkeye and BJ go looking for him and they find him lying there singing "Over There". They just stand there kinda smirking at him while he says he knew someone would come by eventually and if it'd been the North Koreans, he'd have had a better story. Uhh?

Hawk says he's gonna get the glass out and offers him some morphine, and Clay says there's no need, so Hawk pulls the glass out and lectures him about the stupidity of his actions and how he'd better write the truth about this. Then when it's done, he gives him some morphine. Uhhhh??

It just irritated the hell out of me because this was basically an episode about nothing. Hawkeye's ALWAYS mad about something, that's a given, but this was such an inconsequential situation that they just inflated way out of proportion. I mean, sure Clay was writing lies, but the way Hawk pulled the glass out with that "you got what you deserved" smirk on his face, you'd think Clay had single-handedly started the war, sent Trapper home, promoted Frank, killed Henry AND named BJ and Hawkeye was getting his! He was nice to everybody he came across, he put people's minds at ease (look at Mulcahy, for crap's sake! He was all hero-worshippy and Clay smiled and said, "Call me Clay, Father." and they had a nice conversation!), and he was a good motorcycle rider, too. But Hawk was a total two year old about it because he happened to pretty up the war and... oh, yeah, I guess he also somehow DARED to have a drink with some nurse Hawkeye wanted to go out with. That's pretty paltry shit there, Hawk. He was just a raging lunatic about it for some reason.

Even BJ totally ignored him. He was working on his motorcycle as Hawk was rambling and just totally tuned him out. The only reason he went with Hawk at all was because Clay stole his motorcycle. He didn't care a LICK about Clay's shit. They had two totally separate motives.

AT THE FUGGEN END, Potter was reading Clay's latest article, and Hawkeye was like, yay, he learned his lesson. Know what BJ's response was?

"He broke my motorcycle..."

It was just a total wtffy episode on every level, and it seemed like they had some drama quota they had to fill or something. I mean, if it wasn't Hawkeye standing in Klinger's office aghast at what Clay's saying on the phone, it's Clay standing over BJ in the dark asking to go on a ride in the countryside because he came here to write about WAR, dammit. AND IT WAS ALL OVER NOTHING!! In any other situation, it'd be comedic. Couldn't Hawkeye and BJ have conspired to get his story totally fucked up somehow and he'd look like an asshole? Couldn't he have BEEN an asshole instead of a really nice but maybe too idealistic guy? And since when is it a crime to be idealistic and get drunk? Oh but then, of course we all know Hawkeye and BJ have NEVER been drunk before.

And if they wanted some REAL drama, what about finding Clay dead or something? Couldn't he have died while Hawkeye was pulling out the glass?

Aiyaa, I don't know what the writers had in mind. It was fun to rip apart though.