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Originally Posted by koosie
I've never seen that episode. I used to love M*A*S*H and it's interesting to think of how its tone changed from the movie to the tv series and through the series itself. Am I right in thinking it was made in the early 70s in the final years of the Vietnam war? It's about the Korean war in the 50s obviously but I remember an episode where Hawkeye marches into a tent with negotiators from both sides and demands they make peace because it's all so awful. I was kind of embarrassed for Alan Alda, still am in fact. I'm sure Henry Kissinger was real grateful for your input, Alan.
On a related note, the last thing I watched was an ITV drama about Rudyard Kipling who fixed it so his severely myopic son could become an officer in the First World War. His son was played by that Daniel Ratcliffe lad from Harry Potter and was rather predictably killed at Loos in France.
It was nicely acted and did all the right things including a good scene where the wind changes direction and the booms of the artillary barrage before the battle on the western front could be heard from Kiplings house in Sussex in southern England. The biggest explosions of the war could be heard in London which must have been really dreadful for the whole population as everyone knew someone at the front.
Anyway the only thing that annoyed me was Harry's prolonged death scene by machine gun in no-man's land that must have been very disturbing for Potter-film-fans. In their defence, the incident was being described after the event to his family and the witness would not have wanted to say that he fell like a puppet who's strings had been cut.
The whole thing was written by the chap who played Kipling who you might know as the angry cop with a tash in Robbie Coltrane's Cracker. That's Cracker not Crackers. That would be weird. Daniel Radcliffe had a little tash too which made me smile a little.
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i think nearly everyody died in France.
nominated for "most pointless war ever"
