Falling in love all over again
Jan. 11th, 2006 06:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lord_cellytronI sat down and watched all 4 M*A*S*H episodes on Hallmark today, and I'm so glad. Getting to see Charles' arrival again is just making me fall in love with that series (and his character, naturally) all over again. Man, just a brief shot of THE BLUE FLASHING EYES OF BOSTON DOOM made me grin like a fool. And we got nurse outfit-clad Maxie and 'Stache-less Beej. So wonderful.
Also, I FINALLY saw "Fallen Idol"! No, I'd never seen it before, even though I own the season 6 DVDs. I don't know, I guess I just figured eventually it would play, and then I stopped watching it, and then the WB stopped PLAYING M*A*S*H, but I guess I was right. Eventually, it did play. :P
JEEZ. Just JEEZ.
At first, I couldn't figure out the timeline. Hawk tells Radar to go have some sex, then, apparently the same minute, there's wounded. Then, about a second later, they're in OR for a SECOND session, but Hawkeye has to run out and puke from getting drunk "last night", which happened off-camera. And everybody's upset about this, and then Hawk goes to see Radar, who is all disappointed in him, Hawk screams at him, and there is much angst.
I'd seen the confrontation "The hell with YOU!" scene by itself about a thousand times, but I always thought Radar was implying that Hawk had to run outside and throw up WHILE operating on RADAR, so I was a little confused when it turned out to be a whole day later and a different patient.
It seems to me that it might have made more sense the way I thought it played out, because Hawk has a reputation for getting shitfaced drunk and never had to go hurl before. At least the way I thought it went, the trauma of having to operate on his friend could have caused his illness, and that would have REALLY been cause for Radar's getting so upset. As it was this way, what was Radar so mad about? Finding out his idol isn't perfect? How could he have not known that already? I GUESS it was disappointing that Hawk had to leave OR, yeah, but it's surprising that THAT would have been THE MOMENT for Radar. I'm not especially well-versed in pre-Seas. 6 M*A*S*H, but Hawk HAS to have done something stupid/bad before that.
But, whatever. Anyway, I don't know. I guess it was supposed to be a groundbreaking episode for their characters, but I didn't really care for it. I mean, it was GOOD, but it wasn't nearly what I was expecting.
Though, I LOVED seeing Mulcahy, Potter and Margaret so angry. Not because they were heaping abuse on Hawk, but because, damn, that was some entertainment.
Mulcahy: "And it's very likely that I have broken my TOE!" *hops out*
Margaret: "I didn't get to say ANYTHING!"
Also, OMG. Maxie brought Radar FLOWERS and came to viiiiisit. :D They are so damn cute together. I love that the flowers came off of Maxie's hat. Eeee.
"Don't put them in water! The colors will run!"
The Bardonaro (sp?) episode also played. Man, Beej is so cute in that one. And I love drunken!Potter at the end.
Potter: "You know what I like about a major with hot lips?"
Hawk/Beej (not sure): "What?"
Potter: "...That's right."
And I adored Margaret tearing Radar's office apart.
Radar: *with wastebasket on head* "....Kind to enlisted men..."
Yeah, I know, I'm getting the quotes all wrong. Yeah, I know it's just a matter of popping in the DVDs. I just prefer to do it this way. Always have. Waiting for the episodes to play on TV is half the fun, and incorrectly transcribing them from memory is... the other half the fun. This is how we used to have to do it before the age of DVDs/functioning VCRs, dude. :)
Not much else to say. I re-read Our Intrepid Crew of Underachievers last night, and... I hate to say it, but it's really pretty bad. I tried to suspend my beliefs about badfic, OOCness, Mary Sues and the like, but it just is NOT a good fanfic. It's barely a good STORY at all. Of course, I still treasure it, because I worked so damn hard on it and everything, but, yikes.
The only really good line was, well... written in 2001 after the Voyager finale.
Samantha: But... I don't WANT my daughter to learn how to fire a phaser rifle!
Vorik: Samantha, these days, there's really no way around it.
Oh, there was also:
Seven: REPORT!
Harry: Unable to comply, we're experiencing an error...
Samantha: Damn Windows 71!!!
And, yeah, there was ALSO:
Naomi: I'm Captain Naomi Wildman of the Federation starship Voyager. We mean you no harm. Um... beam me up? Resistance is futile. Uh...
Neelix: *hiss* What are you DOING?!
Naomi: What does Captain Janeway say? I'm stuck here!
Neelix: She sure as hell doesn't say 'Resistance is futile'!
I still love the cast dynamics (Seven, Harry, Samantha Wildman, Naomi Wildman, Vorik), and, if I were to RE-write the story, IN CHARACTER, sans suckitude... Nah. It's just got to be written off as the bad fanfic of an eighth grade dumbass.
Also, I FINALLY saw "Fallen Idol"! No, I'd never seen it before, even though I own the season 6 DVDs. I don't know, I guess I just figured eventually it would play, and then I stopped watching it, and then the WB stopped PLAYING M*A*S*H, but I guess I was right. Eventually, it did play. :P
JEEZ. Just JEEZ.
At first, I couldn't figure out the timeline. Hawk tells Radar to go have some sex, then, apparently the same minute, there's wounded. Then, about a second later, they're in OR for a SECOND session, but Hawkeye has to run out and puke from getting drunk "last night", which happened off-camera. And everybody's upset about this, and then Hawk goes to see Radar, who is all disappointed in him, Hawk screams at him, and there is much angst.
I'd seen the confrontation "The hell with YOU!" scene by itself about a thousand times, but I always thought Radar was implying that Hawk had to run outside and throw up WHILE operating on RADAR, so I was a little confused when it turned out to be a whole day later and a different patient.
It seems to me that it might have made more sense the way I thought it played out, because Hawk has a reputation for getting shitfaced drunk and never had to go hurl before. At least the way I thought it went, the trauma of having to operate on his friend could have caused his illness, and that would have REALLY been cause for Radar's getting so upset. As it was this way, what was Radar so mad about? Finding out his idol isn't perfect? How could he have not known that already? I GUESS it was disappointing that Hawk had to leave OR, yeah, but it's surprising that THAT would have been THE MOMENT for Radar. I'm not especially well-versed in pre-Seas. 6 M*A*S*H, but Hawk HAS to have done something stupid/bad before that.
But, whatever. Anyway, I don't know. I guess it was supposed to be a groundbreaking episode for their characters, but I didn't really care for it. I mean, it was GOOD, but it wasn't nearly what I was expecting.
Though, I LOVED seeing Mulcahy, Potter and Margaret so angry. Not because they were heaping abuse on Hawk, but because, damn, that was some entertainment.
Mulcahy: "And it's very likely that I have broken my TOE!" *hops out*
Margaret: "I didn't get to say ANYTHING!"
Also, OMG. Maxie brought Radar FLOWERS and came to viiiiisit. :D They are so damn cute together. I love that the flowers came off of Maxie's hat. Eeee.
"Don't put them in water! The colors will run!"
The Bardonaro (sp?) episode also played. Man, Beej is so cute in that one. And I love drunken!Potter at the end.
Potter: "You know what I like about a major with hot lips?"
Hawk/Beej (not sure): "What?"
Potter: "...That's right."
And I adored Margaret tearing Radar's office apart.
Radar: *with wastebasket on head* "....Kind to enlisted men..."
Yeah, I know, I'm getting the quotes all wrong. Yeah, I know it's just a matter of popping in the DVDs. I just prefer to do it this way. Always have. Waiting for the episodes to play on TV is half the fun, and incorrectly transcribing them from memory is... the other half the fun. This is how we used to have to do it before the age of DVDs/functioning VCRs, dude. :)
Not much else to say. I re-read Our Intrepid Crew of Underachievers last night, and... I hate to say it, but it's really pretty bad. I tried to suspend my beliefs about badfic, OOCness, Mary Sues and the like, but it just is NOT a good fanfic. It's barely a good STORY at all. Of course, I still treasure it, because I worked so damn hard on it and everything, but, yikes.
The only really good line was, well... written in 2001 after the Voyager finale.
Samantha: But... I don't WANT my daughter to learn how to fire a phaser rifle!
Vorik: Samantha, these days, there's really no way around it.
Oh, there was also:
Seven: REPORT!
Harry: Unable to comply, we're experiencing an error...
Samantha: Damn Windows 71!!!
And, yeah, there was ALSO:
Naomi: I'm Captain Naomi Wildman of the Federation starship Voyager. We mean you no harm. Um... beam me up? Resistance is futile. Uh...
Neelix: *hiss* What are you DOING?!
Naomi: What does Captain Janeway say? I'm stuck here!
Neelix: She sure as hell doesn't say 'Resistance is futile'!
I still love the cast dynamics (Seven, Harry, Samantha Wildman, Naomi Wildman, Vorik), and, if I were to RE-write the story, IN CHARACTER, sans suckitude... Nah. It's just got to be written off as the bad fanfic of an eighth grade dumbass.
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Date: 2006-01-12 04:38 am (UTC)Good thing about MASH is that it will never go away! :D