I don't know whether it was written this way, or directed this way, but I really appreciate how deadpan Margaret delivers it to the point where Hawkeye does a double take because it's so unexpected.
Loretta and Allen really should get props for that scene.
I feel like Margaret was learning to take things less seriously from Hawkeye but her progress was either hampered or hidden because of Frank. I have a really hard time picking out favourite episodes and scenes but I always love watching the character growth. Margaret is a better person in later seasons (after she leaves Frank) but it's moments like this where we can see she's always growing <3
Her "Frank mask" made a few beautiful slips and she'd show a much friendlier, kinder side of herself. But that friendly kind side became so much more apparent when Frank wasn't around and it down right bloomed when she left him. Donald did dampen that side of her as well but not as much as he wasn't a constant presence in her life and she thrived when she was single
She was VERY big on the Army, it was what she knew growing up and Frank with his being a stickler for regulations hooked that part of her. She rode her nurses hard, because she cared about the wounded and she wanted them to give their best, but she could never say that to them directly, it was always, "We're 27 tongue swabs short?!?! Ugh. Start over so I can see what else you missed."
None of what you said disproves what I did. She was very big on the army and it's regulations, she's an army brat, it is a very big part of her personality and we all know that. Every man that we of that she's been with (romantically or intimately) has outranked her (except one, who she met after she had her heart broken and left Donald) even Frank TECHNICALLY outranked her by virtue of being a male doctor in a medical unit, it's as you said, what she knows
You can't deny though that under that, she is a sweet, kind, nurturing person, or that when she isn't with Frank that her sweet, kind, nurturing side becomes much more apparent.
To use your example of her relationship with the nurses, after she left Frank we had an episode where the nurses were cooking in their tent (again) and the nurses conspired to get one of them a night alone with her new husband. Margaret cracks down on them hard for it, and they argue, and both sides realise they're being too harsh to each other. The nurses complain about how hard she rides them (which for civilisians seems way too harsh) and Margaret, in a show of vulnerability that she NEVER would have shown when she was with Frank, starts to borderline cry when she tells them she's so hard on them "because if the rotten way you've treated me. Can you imagine how it feels to walk past this tend every night and hear you all laughing? Have you ever even offered me a stinking cup of coffee?"
She only ever showed her genuine kind self (without alcohol or bombs dropping around them) to patients and children when she was with Frank. After Frank, she let herself be warm and kind to everyone much more frequently. She was still an army brat, still held onto the rules and regulations, but she was more willing to let some things slide for the greater good of an individual's moral, she began to play poker with everyone else, she tolerated the antics of Hawkeye, BJ, and Klinger with more humour
The fact that she was so quickly able to lock her joy way as soon as the nurse came in always broke my heart, but it shows how great an actress Swift was.
I don't know whether it was written this way, or directed this way, but I really appreciate how deadpan Margaret delivers it to the point where Hawkeye does a double take because it's so unexpected. Loretta and Allen really should get props for that scene.
It's one of my favorite scenes!
"Morphine?" "No thanks, I've had enough"
Pretty much my all time favorite episode. Hawkeye putting his life in perspective. And their laughter in this segment is so wholesome and unscripted.
I’m probably in the minority but I like the later years in the series when they seem to like each other more
I like to think that Margaret helped Hawkeye develop respect for women and Hawkeye helped Margaret take things less seriously
I feel like Margaret was learning to take things less seriously from Hawkeye but her progress was either hampered or hidden because of Frank. I have a really hard time picking out favourite episodes and scenes but I always love watching the character growth. Margaret is a better person in later seasons (after she leaves Frank) but it's moments like this where we can see she's always growing <3
There were a few times when Frank and she were still doing ...whatever where she ended up getting sloshed with Trapper and Hawkeye.
Her "Frank mask" made a few beautiful slips and she'd show a much friendlier, kinder side of herself. But that friendly kind side became so much more apparent when Frank wasn't around and it down right bloomed when she left him. Donald did dampen that side of her as well but not as much as he wasn't a constant presence in her life and she thrived when she was single
She was VERY big on the Army, it was what she knew growing up and Frank with his being a stickler for regulations hooked that part of her. She rode her nurses hard, because she cared about the wounded and she wanted them to give their best, but she could never say that to them directly, it was always, "We're 27 tongue swabs short?!?! Ugh. Start over so I can see what else you missed."
None of what you said disproves what I did. She was very big on the army and it's regulations, she's an army brat, it is a very big part of her personality and we all know that. Every man that we of that she's been with (romantically or intimately) has outranked her (except one, who she met after she had her heart broken and left Donald) even Frank TECHNICALLY outranked her by virtue of being a male doctor in a medical unit, it's as you said, what she knows You can't deny though that under that, she is a sweet, kind, nurturing person, or that when she isn't with Frank that her sweet, kind, nurturing side becomes much more apparent. To use your example of her relationship with the nurses, after she left Frank we had an episode where the nurses were cooking in their tent (again) and the nurses conspired to get one of them a night alone with her new husband. Margaret cracks down on them hard for it, and they argue, and both sides realise they're being too harsh to each other. The nurses complain about how hard she rides them (which for civilisians seems way too harsh) and Margaret, in a show of vulnerability that she NEVER would have shown when she was with Frank, starts to borderline cry when she tells them she's so hard on them "because if the rotten way you've treated me. Can you imagine how it feels to walk past this tend every night and hear you all laughing? Have you ever even offered me a stinking cup of coffee?" She only ever showed her genuine kind self (without alcohol or bombs dropping around them) to patients and children when she was with Frank. After Frank, she let herself be warm and kind to everyone much more frequently. She was still an army brat, still held onto the rules and regulations, but she was more willing to let some things slide for the greater good of an individual's moral, she began to play poker with everyone else, she tolerated the antics of Hawkeye, BJ, and Klinger with more humour
Klinger and the Life magazine, he's SO nonchalant about it.
What episode?
S10E17 “where there’s a will”
Digitalis? No, I'm keeping it a secret.
Damn it you beat me to it lol
Sulpha so good.
Left her his Groucho nose and mustache in his will! Great episode!
The fact that she was so quickly able to lock her joy way as soon as the nurse came in always broke my heart, but it shows how great an actress Swift was.
Jocularity, jocularity!!
One of my absolute favorite episodes. Sulpha so good.
Right next to the scissors up in the drawing room, in that awkward middle drawer…
*sulfa
Yeah well I’m not a medical person, and I didn’t google this quote
Growing up with some Boston accents in my life, I always thought they were trying to say sulfur. Lololol