Reply #12: Tough call! [View All]

[Orrex]

Favorite serious episode? Gosh. Maybe the one in which Mako, playing an anonymous North Korean soldier, captures Hawkeye while he's heading for some R&R, forcing Hawkeye to treat his fatally wounded friend. Ultimately he dies, but not before Hawkeye demonstrates that he's more interested in saving the man's like than his own. The sequence ends with Mako letting him go, but Hawkeye stays to help dig the man's grave. (but the "Dreams" episode is truly remarkable)

Favorite funny episode? I really like the one in which Frank pulls a series of practical jokes on Hawkeye, with neither saying anything about it to the other, until Hawk gets even at the end by collapsing the latrine before a crowd of onlookers while Frank is doing his business inside.

Great series. All complaints along the lines of "it ran longer than the war" really miss the point. At its peak it was better than anything before or since. At its worst, it was still damn good.