family wants to watch MASH, and it's weird seeing the relatively good anti-war takes combined with the transphobia and antiquated notions of mental health are Interesting
@BestGirlGrace yeah, it is a bit of a whiplash at times
though i think a lot of these things improve in the later seasons - for one thing that's when they let maj. houlihan be an actual person instead of just a flat piece of cardboard with two balloons taped to it, lol.
it might make it less wince-worthy coming at it from an angle of "compared to the contemporaries here, it's seriously ahead of the game on this angle"
@BestGirlGrace @CCTop god yeah, the original lyrics go OFF lol.
i think it was a solid piece of media that really had the message of "war sucks", very emphatically, and in a way that probably hadn't rocked the american consciousness in a good while - you can draw parallels between post-ww1 rise of modernism, but by the time M*A*S*H aired, a lot of that had been spackled over with patriotism.
still amusing that the show lasted longer than the actual korean war tho lol
@wigglytuffitout @CCTop Three times longer!
There'd be a lot more anti-war media around Vietnam, especially after the Pentagon Papers came out, but Mash came first. It's wild to watch this while living in the post-9/11 perpetual malaise-war hellscape
@wigglytuffitout @CCTop (erging threads here) Yeah, for the time it was great and it's hard to imagine a movie or TV show being so extremely anti-war these days while still being as popular as Mash was.
I mean, the theme song from the movie was so intense, they weren't allowed to air the lyrics on TV. (cw: suicide mention) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gO7uemm6Yo