tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2242198036084484844.post6526260612440953692..comments2023-11-03T08:13:12.122-04:00Comments on AfterM*A*S*H: Episode 127 - In Love And Warrob!http://www.blogger.com/profile/17556471244882205031noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2242198036084484844.post-65181947066915792822009-08-05T21:46:54.620-04:002009-08-05T21:46:54.620-04:00I absolutely loathe this episode. To me, neither s...I absolutely loathe this episode. To me, neither story line works: Margaret's for lack of time and/or scenes to develop properly (ie, does she ever talk to Donald? It appears she does, but it's never shown) and for lack of interest re: Hawkeye. With Hawkeye we've seen this all before and better. It should have been Charles, IMHO.Russellnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2242198036084484844.post-34276706065072164272009-08-05T10:26:53.323-04:002009-08-05T10:26:53.323-04:00This is another example of how different sitcoms a...This is another example of how different sitcoms are now from back then. If the show were made today, the romance would develop over a period of five or six episodes, functioning as a back-up storyline until the final episode when the romance finally ends. That's a much more realistic time frame. Back then, every story had to be tied up in 24 minutes, unless it was the rare two-parter.Nealhttp://www.polyvinylman.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2242198036084484844.post-27740503437048734112009-08-05T03:47:36.937-04:002009-08-05T03:47:36.937-04:00This has all the hallmarks of an “Alda episode,” f...This has all the hallmarks of an “Alda episode,” for better and worse. Alda was clearly trying to move Hawkeye past the “love em and leave em” lothario (although his reuniting with Carlye in Season Four remains the best take on this theme), culminating in S7’s “Inga” which seems--by comparison--rather over-worked. <br /><br />Kieu Chinh’s Soon is wonderfully played; Chinh gives her character such dignity that it is easy to see what Hawk would be so smitten. Yet, Alda plays Hawkeye a little too much for the fool- not so much in falling in love with a Korean national, as in his intentionally playing up Hawkeye’s more shallow tendency towards a glib, cute charm with the ladies when initially courting Soon.<br /><br />When Soon leaves, he becomes mawkish. All of this is in keeping with the situation, but it recalls Futurama’s parodic depiction of Hawk as a robot with one switch: serious/maudlin. <br /><br />Potter’s counsel to Hawkeye is, as usual, wise (“Don’t fall in love in a war […] for every hello, there are two goodbyes”) advice which ironically Margaret may be finally realizing. Potter comes close to stealing the show here (“I should have shot the horse”).<br />The episode is well-written and directed; indeed, it is hard not to feel for both Margaret and Hawk in the episode’s final scene as they come to terms with their respective disappointments.What the Parrot Sawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08039363570921658045noreply@blogger.com