(04x19) 091 - Hawkeye
Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2013 7:40 pm
Okay, so the actually story behind this episode, apparently, was that is was an experiment done by Larry Gelbart: he wanted to see if just one character was capable of carrying the entire show by himself.
Now, considering that Hawkeye was already the unofficial star of the show, doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose? There were six other main players at the time, any of them could have carried on an episode by themselves, but for it to be Hawkeye, that was just a bit much. It could have been a great opportunity for us to see what REALLY goes through Klinger's mind: Season Four had already given us a few B.J. episodes ("Welcome to Korea, Parts 1 and 2", "Dear Peggy"), a couple of Potter episodes ("Change of Command", "Dear Mildred"), Frank episodes ("The Gun", "Der Tag"), Radar episodes ("The Gun", "Dear Ma"), not to mention previous seasons gave us some Margaret episodes (mainly "Hot Lips and Empty Arms"); Klinger was promoted to a main character this season, we could have gotten a hilarious Klinger episode.
Just my thoughts.
Now, considering that Hawkeye was already the unofficial star of the show, doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose? There were six other main players at the time, any of them could have carried on an episode by themselves, but for it to be Hawkeye, that was just a bit much. It could have been a great opportunity for us to see what REALLY goes through Klinger's mind: Season Four had already given us a few B.J. episodes ("Welcome to Korea, Parts 1 and 2", "Dear Peggy"), a couple of Potter episodes ("Change of Command", "Dear Mildred"), Frank episodes ("The Gun", "Der Tag"), Radar episodes ("The Gun", "Dear Ma"), not to mention previous seasons gave us some Margaret episodes (mainly "Hot Lips and Empty Arms"); Klinger was promoted to a main character this season, we could have gotten a hilarious Klinger episode.
Just my thoughts.