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* In “The Smell Of Music”, between the slapstick EscalatingWar of Winchester and Hawkeye/B.J., is a B plot about a soldier whose rifle backfired in his own face and Potter trying to stop him from trying to commit suicide. Eventually reverse psychology happens, Potter helping him commit suicide as he’s screwed up everything else, and the guy finally wants to live.
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* Margaret acts out in “Comrade In Arms”, but she’s just got more proof that Donald is routinely cheating on her, and she tries so hard to pretend that she’s in love with Hawkeye because he’s nice and there.
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** Hawkeye despairing that they’ll exchange a few letters and never hear from each other again, Trapper not leaving him anything obviously still fresh in his mind.
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* Margaret crying about the puppy she bonded with in “Images”. As she rants to Hawkeye, she has to deal with people dying all around her, and on top of her new marriage failing, it’s TheLastStraw for her.
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*** It's also implied that the driver and Radar were friends, and Radar has to be the one to write the death notification.
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* “Ping Pong” has B.J. offhandedly tell a patient that Hawkeye isn’t okay, but you can trust him, and Hawkeye looks unbearably hurt for a moment.
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* In “The General’s Practitioner”, Potter clearly remembers “Hawk’s Nightmare”, and protects Hawkeye in a CruelToBeKind way, saying Hawkeye is liable to crack up and that makes him a good man to stay away from.
** Radar getting invested in the baby he’s essentially adopted, only to be heartbroken when Mulligan comes back, getting handed his teddy bear as a reminder that he’s back to being treated like a kid.
** Radar getting invested in the baby he’s essentially adopted, only to be heartbroken when Mulligan comes back, getting handed his teddy bear as a reminder that he’s back to being treated like a kid.
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** Even before Kyung Soon’s mother dies, the relationship is doomed (she knows this full well, Hawkeye is in denial), Hawkeye not realising he’s on the same side of people who have made her life so hard, and really thinking he can be a SadClown distraction making jokes about bombed houses.
** Margaret learns that Donald is cheating on her, having a breakdown in the showers and ending mournfully accepting that she’ll just take him back.
** Kyung Soon’s mother gets worse while Hawkeye is in surgery, and by the time he can get to the house, she’s gone. What makes it more awful is that Hawkeye still doesn’t understand Kyung Soon’s position, wearing his uniform to the procession and more sad she has to sell her things to survive than about what she’s going through. Even she gets sick of it, telling him that she’s being practical and she thought he liked that about her.
** Even before Kyung Soon’s mother dies, the relationship is doomed (she knows this full well, Hawkeye is in denial), Hawkeye not realising he’s on the same side of people who have made her life so hard, and really thinking he can be a SadClown distraction making jokes about bombed houses.
** Margaret learns that Donald is cheating on her, having a breakdown in the showers and ending mournfully accepting that she’ll just take him back.
** Kyung Soon’s mother gets worse while Hawkeye is in surgery, and by the time he can get to the house, she’s gone. What makes it more awful is that Hawkeye still doesn’t understand Kyung Soon’s position, wearing his uniform to the procession and more sad she has to sell her things to survive than about what she’s going through. Even she gets sick of it, telling him that she’s being practical and she thought he liked that about her.
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** Margaret’s marriage is on the rocks even from the honeymoon, as she finds out that just talking to a General who is hot for her will get Donald jealous, and she’s “oh poor baby”s him instead of standing up for herself.
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* In “The Most Unforgettable Characters”, Radar’s speech about B.J. and Hawkeye’s fighting makes him feel sick, and how other guys will say they’re friends but they’re not really. It looks like Hawkeye wasn’t the only one who felt betrayed by Trapper’s lack of goodbye (he was Radar’s honorary uncle to Hawkeye’s aunt).
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** For all his egotistical bullshit at the beginning, Winchester gets one early on, fearing that he won’t be able to adjust to meatball surgery.
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** Hawkeye proceeds to drown himself in booze and self loathing, which sets off the whole mess: leaving a patient to go puke, being completely defeated in Potter’s office, lashing out at Radar (and he’s not wrong, everyone sees him as TheHeart except when he needs help), hating himself even more, getting told off by Radar. He also learns the wrong lesson, instead of not drowning his sorrows and lashing out, he thinks he shouldn’t have even tried to have boundaries.
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** Potter hearing Hawkeye screaming with a look of quiet despair, knowing full well how this will end, having likely seen it all before.
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* In “Fallen Idol”, Hawkeye instantly crumbles the moment he sees Radar wounded, and for the first time in the series, the show’s chief surgeon is completely useless in pre-op and just gets in the way.
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* “End Run” stars a football player who thinks all that he is is his leg, and doesn’t want to live now that it’s amputated. He of course blames Hawkeye, who as usual, stews in self loathing.
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-->'''Hawkeye''': I think I’m having an identity crisis. I know I’m Dr Pierce, but I want to be God.
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* Hawkeye doesn’t have the reaction you think he might when Potter calls him a good person in “Hepatitis”, instead looking like he’s going to cry.
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** Margaret’s wedding being interrupted by choppers, and as cool as she is doing it, having to operate in her wedding dress. It’s an apt metaphor for her marriage failing.
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** Hawkeye talking nostalgically about Crabapple Cove, especially how he’s wistful about a stream that ran behind the house, not knowing yet that his claustrophobia comes from nearly being drowned.
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* For a general thread through season five, Margaret’s desperation to believe that Donald loves her and is right for her, no matter how many red flags are visible to everyone else from day one.
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** The episode starts off with the surgeons operating on wounded soldiers, and Hawkeye already sounds like he’s going to cry when he rants that they’re babies.
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* In “Post-Op”, a soldier and Margaret have a conversation where he gets so close to realising that the other man is just as human as he is (same age and confusion), but she still in MoralMyopia development tells him he did a good job by killing the guy when they shot at each other at the same time, and he’s tentatively convinced.
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** Hawkeye admitting to B.J. that he’s just not afraid of the war, he’s afraid of his brain constantly attacking him from the inside. He also admits to Sidney his deeper fear: that people will realise he’s genuinely crazy.
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** Hawkeye calling his friends because he’s having nightmares of them dying horribly (and he has reason to fear, considering Tommy) and they don’t seem interested, both acting like Hawkeye being weird and having nightmares isn’t a new thing to them, and {{foreshadowing}} Billy not loving Hawkeye like vice versa.
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* In “Hanky Panky”, miserable from cheating on his wife and going to tell her all about it, later B.J. doesn’t follow Hawkeye’s advice to only punish himself and not Peg, as while he does hate himself, he drags Hawkeye along for the ride, and automatically assumes Peg will cheat on him because he did the same.
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** Based on real stories, Mulcahy details how the doctors will warm themselves over the open wound of their patuient, and asks how anyone could look at that and not feel changed.
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** Even before the reveal, Hawkeye’s had every coping method of his beaten down and so instead of the funny flirty SadClown persona, he acts like a caged animal in the asylum and when his friends call (being very careful with him and treating him like he’s five year old, the thing he was afraid of happening in “Hawk’s Nightmare”), alienates all of them within minutes. Even after he’s back in camp, he’s still fast to make everyone uncomfortable.
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** Potter is raging because a klutzy driver named O’Donnell turned the ambulance too fast, and injured more patients, so he demands the guy to report to his office. Radar has to tell Potter he died.
* Margaret’s breakdown in “The Nurses”, showing again how much her StockholmSyndrome for the army has ruined her life, and how much deep down she desperately wants anyone to be kind to her.
** Nurse Gaynor gets drunk to deal with the fact that she feels nothing, even for the burn victims who are wrapped in bandages. Turns into happy tears when a breach is born healthy, and cries because “it’s just life!” in a place full of death.
* It’s ostensibly a joke, but in “The Abduction Of Margaret Houlihan” Hawkeye sounds sad when he asks Flagg he lost his virginity twenty years ago (he’s at best meant to be 31), not being able to find it again, and as shown later on in “Lil”, he was genuinely having sex at this point. For extra points, on his early trauma timeline, his mom had just died without him getting to say goodbye.
* Margaret’s breakdown in “The Nurses”, showing again how much her StockholmSyndrome for the army has ruined her life, and how much deep down she desperately wants anyone to be kind to her.
** Nurse Gaynor gets drunk to deal with the fact that she feels nothing, even for the burn victims who are wrapped in bandages. Turns into happy tears when a breach is born healthy, and cries because “it’s just life!” in a place full of death.
* It’s ostensibly a joke, but in “The Abduction Of Margaret Houlihan” Hawkeye sounds sad when he asks Flagg he lost his virginity twenty years ago (he’s at best meant to be 31), not being able to find it again, and as shown later on in “Lil”, he was genuinely having sex at this point. For extra points, on his early trauma timeline, his mom had just died without him getting to say goodbye.
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* In “The More I See You”, Hawkeye admits that his co-dependent relationship with Carlye “busted up”, and only reveals that he was the one left (without a goodbye) after B.J. assumes he broke up with her.
** Hawkeye finding out that Carlye is leaving him again. She says it’s not going to be like last time and that she would have told him, but he doesn’t seem to believe her.
** While Carlye is sympathetic and likable, when Hawkeye is telling her how much he hated her for leaving him with no goodbye, she gets defensive, telling him he “had no right to feel that way because he let it happen”, calling to mind just how many people (including mains in the show) blame Hawkeye for his own pain. No wonder he keeps trying to justify people hurting him.
* In “Deluge”, and in stark contrast to having a HeroicBSOD over the death of a friend only a few episodes ago, Radar can go from hopeful “take good care of him, he’s from Iowa” to just fed up and dealing when B.J. says there’s nothing they can do.
** The image of Hawkeye and B.J. at the end, just completely exhausted and doing {{thousand yard stare}}s.
* In “The Interview”, Hawkeye’s BlatantLies that he’s StoppedCaring, as he says caringly. We know and he knows, from episodes before and episodes after, that in no way does he get anaesthetised enough to not bleed for everybody who’s bleeding (this is a man who turned crying for his dead best friend into beating himself up about not crying for every other death), and he’s already in a hole he can’t get out of.
** B.J. foreshadowing his main character arc in an improvised line, saying how he used to get sickened by all the bloodshed, and now he barely feels anything but anger.
** Based on real stories, Mulcahy details how the doctors will warm themselves over the open wound of their patuient, and asks how anyone could look at that and not feel changed.
** Radar sounding close to tears when he talks about how he’s friends with the South Koreans, but MASH has barely enough for themselves sometimes, and he wishes the people back home could be told about having to look the kids in the face and having to tell them they can’t help.
** Hawkeye finding out that Carlye is leaving him again. She says it’s not going to be like last time and that she would have told him, but he doesn’t seem to believe her.
** While Carlye is sympathetic and likable, when Hawkeye is telling her how much he hated her for leaving him with no goodbye, she gets defensive, telling him he “had no right to feel that way because he let it happen”, calling to mind just how many people (including mains in the show) blame Hawkeye for his own pain. No wonder he keeps trying to justify people hurting him.
* In “Deluge”, and in stark contrast to having a HeroicBSOD over the death of a friend only a few episodes ago, Radar can go from hopeful “take good care of him, he’s from Iowa” to just fed up and dealing when B.J. says there’s nothing they can do.
** The image of Hawkeye and B.J. at the end, just completely exhausted and doing {{thousand yard stare}}s.
* In “The Interview”, Hawkeye’s BlatantLies that he’s StoppedCaring, as he says caringly. We know and he knows, from episodes before and episodes after, that in no way does he get anaesthetised enough to not bleed for everybody who’s bleeding (this is a man who turned crying for his dead best friend into beating himself up about not crying for every other death), and he’s already in a hole he can’t get out of.
** B.J. foreshadowing his main character arc in an improvised line, saying how he used to get sickened by all the bloodshed, and now he barely feels anything but anger.
** Based on real stories, Mulcahy details how the doctors will warm themselves over the open wound of their patuient, and asks how anyone could look at that and not feel changed.
** Radar sounding close to tears when he talks about how he’s friends with the South Koreans, but MASH has barely enough for themselves sometimes, and he wishes the people back home could be told about having to look the kids in the face and having to tell them they can’t help.
* In “Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind”, showing how cruel it is to blind a man with abandonment issues, Hawkeye is terrified of being left alone in the dark, and not being able to keep his nickname. He begs B.J. to come visit him a few hundred times.
** While B.J. instantly apologises for hitting his best friend, and clearly didn’t mean to hurt Hawkeye; as a larger picture, Hawk with a fresh black eye, cradling the crying guy who hit him, sums up his LoveMartyr attitude so well, feeling like he should be the punching bag for people who love him and also comfort them at the same time.
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** Almost every mention of Hawkeye’s mom has her trying to be protective of him, and besides the fact that his life seems to be one big TraumaCongaLine, this comes off as one final act to try and protect him from seeing her dying.
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** Hawkeye finding out that Trapper left while he was on R&R, and after racing to the airport to say goodbye, finds out he missed him by ten minutes. He looks so heartbroken, and dismisses BJ right out at first. It’s also the end of his and Trapper’s friendship entirely, as Trapper never writes and Hawkeye stays angry (mostly at himself for apparently not being worth it) until the finale.
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** Hawkeye finding out that Trapper left while he was on R&R, and after racing to the airport to say goodbye, finds out he missed him by ten minutes. He looks so heartbroken, and dismisses BJ B.J. right out at first. It’s also the end of his and Trapper’s friendship entirely, as Trapper never writes and Hawkeye stays angry (mostly at himself for apparently not being worth it) until the finale.
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* The ending of Oh "Oh, How We Danced, Danced," with Margaret and B.J. dancing and everyone looks happy. Everyone except Hawkeye, who has the most hangdog LongingLook Alan Alda could muster and looks away after he and B.J make eye contact.
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*** It’s also the second half of what “Dr Pierce and Dr Hyde” set up, that Hawkeye tries so hard to save everyone, stop anything bad from happening, fighting death since he came here (and lost the two people who looked after him) that he’s brokenly exhausted and might as well join it.
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** Twelve year Billy took six year old Hawkeye to read dirty magazines (The Police Gazette was apparently famous for showing half naked men wrestling and female strippers) in a garage in the dark. Even if the - intention - wasn’t grooming, Hawkeye says it was how he first knew about sex, and coupled with all the uncomfortable jokes about his dismal puberty, it has upsetting implications.
