#the 4077 is hell and some of gfa's plotlines helped too - but it definitely got softer and more mixed in its messaging after he left | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

marley-manson · 2 months ago

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“...routinizing an acceptance of war, year in and year out [...] essentially defeats the original purpose of the series. I would almost hope that there would be a way to be even blacker about what war does to people, rather than just to say - and I’m afraid it always did, in the tenth year much more than the first - that listen: Given the right buddies, and the right CO, and the right sense of humor, you can muddle through.”

- Larry Gelbart, quoted in Watching Mash, Watching America

#mash #apparently i was the one who posted the quote so i could talk about it lol. i thought i'd reblogged it and discussed it in the tags #so here's the quote without my commentary #(my commentary fwiw was that it was a little harsh bc i feel like overall the show does a decent job of maintaining its message that #the 4077 is hell and some of gfa's plotlines helped too - but it definitely got softer and more mixed in its messaging after he left #and it's true that regardless that's always gonna be an implication of 11 seasons set in a war zone)

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