#the late captain pierce

[guy-in-a-dress]

[mashpoll]

The Late Captain Pierce (s4 e5): Due to a clerical error, Hawkeye has been declared dead. He goes crazy wondering how his dad is taking the news, but the phone lines are tied up due to Eisenhower's impending visit.

O.R. (s3 e5): The wounded pour into the camp as artillery booms nearby and war planes scream overhead.

[bookofjudith]

Take some of these, they’ll ease the pain/the best die young, immortalized

[klingerfashionarchive]

season 4 episode 5

[onekisstotakewithme]

“Where are we?” Hawkeye asks, turning to him, the cold settling in his chest like a vise as he realizes they’re nowhere in Korea. They’re nowhere at all. The only thing in the world is this riverbank, the landscape disappearing into the haze for miles. Hawkeye thinks he could follow this river to the ends of the earth and still never find another living soul. “The last stop, sir,” Digger says, eyeing him.

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Happy Halloween! 🎃

[pomegranate]

BJ being a li’l scamp in “The Late Captain Pierce”, as requested by @mashbrainrot

[movietonight]

Leave your body and soul at the door

[hawkeyeslaughter]

he needs to count his fucking days

[matrixsunbird]

Hawkeye during S4 E4 - The Late Captain Pierce

[marley-manson]

hawkeye monologuing to people who can’t understand what he’s saying because he’s afraid of death in hawkeye

🤝

weston monologuing to people who can’t hear him while in denial of his death in follies of the living - concerns of the dead

[mashpoll]

The Late Captain Pierce (s4 e5): Due to a clerical error, Hawkeye has been declared dead. He goes crazy wondering how his dad is taking the news, but the phone lines are tied up due to Eisenhower's impending visit.

George (s2 e22): A decorated GI confides to Hawkeye that he was beaten by his own unit for being gay, but Frank is outraged when he finds out from another source and tries to have the soldier dishonorably discharged.

[klingerfashionarchive]

season 4 episode 5

[onekisstotakewithme]

BJ asking Hawkeye if he wants to send any messages to Peg about his death... in their FOURTH episode together 🥺🥰 literally WHO was doing it like them

[nedlittle]

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[pherre]

Regina spektor anon- yes! I feel like henrys death is so jarring, so immaculately written, so central to the mythos of mash that people maybe neglect to recognize how formative trapper's departure from mash is to the subsequent tone and themes. His irish goodbye is something that haunts the series going forward- i think its sort of a model for subsequent farewells cus like so much of goodbye radar is focused on the abruptness and the unfair lack of time to make peace with it, just like trappers just written that way on purpose from the start rather than a way to get around an unexpected loss of a castmember. When gary burghoff was ready to move on from radar, the writers were ready to reeeally make that fit cus trapper's departure primed them on how to do it. Also the way trapper's departure was written retroactively fixes the early seasons inclusion of characters who disappear unceremoniously and without comment (spearchucker and guitar man come to mind). Now that isa meaningful contributor to theme and to the vibe of ephemerality mash ultimately achieves. Its no longer clumsy writing born from the early days a show still trying to figure itself out. Now its themes!!!! Like, of course some characters are there one moment and gone without a trace a few episodes later like they were never there. Its a war! They're a mobile army surgical hospital, there are no guarantees and there is no agency- people dont choose when or how they go they go where theyre assigned to go. I loved trapper but my favorite part about him is that the manner of his exit transforms MASH into what it is- i genuinely think its as formative to the later seasons as henrys death was.

yes exactly!!! it's kind of just... implied in seasons 4-7 (excluding the late captain pierce but that's one of the first episodes without henry and trapper) but as the show does address it in the text as it goes forward (especially in gfa - no spoilers but, oh boy) and it just. makes what is essentially a comedy with self contained episodes feel more like a full narrative

[hawkeyeslaughter]

gang i PROMISE i’m giving bj a chance but i’m really missing johnny more than i thought i would