I loved the show MASH... BUT....

[Brian37]

^ We have spoiler tags, y'know.

It's a great episode. It's on Youtube for those interested.

https://youtu.be/rB8ezcbnLXg

I hate that episode. I get it, but I hate it! It wasn't a chicken it was a baby.

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The episodes I loved the most are where anyone in the cast helped out the locals.

[arewethereyet]

Looking back at it now, being older and wiser, I hate the Radar character. Not the fact he was kind and gentle, I loved that part. But the bullshit motif that he could feel things coming and "read people's minds".

I used to be a dishwasher at a breakfast place. I hated that the dishes would pile up because the wait staff would bring everything in at the same time. I got tired of waiting, and went out and bused the tables myself. The owner resisted at first, but accepted me doing it, because it made things easier on the wait staff, and it kept me happy because things wouldn't pile up on me.

But, after a while of doing that, the staff would say stupid shit after I cleared a table and say, "You read my mind". Or when I brought them more clean glasses or mugs, same thing. I hated that shit. NO I DID NOT READ YOUR MIND, I simply looked and did.

As lovable as that character was, nobody has magic super powers. 

People who think like that really are falling for selection bias and sample rate error. As well as I did my job, there were also times when I could not get to a table before the wait staff did.

Henry Blake was a good guy but a disorganized twit when it came to some things.  Radar was the one who paid attention to things around him and got things done when they needed to be done, if not before.

The only slightly 'magical' thing was his ability to hear choppers before anyone else.  Maybe he just had really good hearing or was more tuned in than others.

[Fake Messiah]

Just imagine the opposite of a Michael Bay film.

I googled him, I’ve seen 3 of his movies. Loved all 3. This confirms my suspicion that I wouldn’t like the MASH movie haha

Maybe you would like the movie because Altman also hated the TV show and also it's not uncommon for fans of TV show to dislike the movie so...

[Brian37]

Just the other night, they had an annoying Halloween episode, where Potter described a loved one having another dead loved one show up in sitting on her bed in her sleep, and the next day, her family told her her loved one died. Also in the episode the gang got their Halloween party disrupted by incoming wounded, but one guy had a toe tag on him so they ignored him. At the end of the episode the transport truck was about to take him away but the Father wanted to give him last rights, and discovered he was still alive.

Both are fucking bullshit stories in reality. 

"Seeing the dead" is sleep paralysis, first off. Nor does that worry take into account all the time one worries about someone and nothing happens. Selection bias and sample rate error. 

But the seemingly dead guy is the worst. It is possible for nurses and doctors to not find a pulse or vital signs,  and to have the patient fly under the radar, and come out of it. That is not magic, that is just a misdiagnosis.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Read "12, 20 and 5 A Doctor's Year in Vietnam". Took me a month to read that one.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Just the other night, they had an annoying Halloween episode, where Potter described a loved one having another dead loved one show up in sitting on her bed in her sleep, and the next day, her family told her her loved one died. Also in the episode the gang got their Halloween party disrupted by incoming wounded, but one guy had a toe tag on him so they ignored him. At the end of the episode the transport truck was about to take him away but the Father wanted to give him last rights, and discovered he was still alive.

Both are fucking bullshit stories in reality. 

"Seeing the dead" is sleep paralysis, first off. Nor does that worry take into account all the time one worries about someone and nothing happens. Selection bias and sample rate error. 

But the seemingly dead guy is the worst. It is possible for nurses and doctors to not find a pulse or vital signs,  and to have the patient fly under the radar, and come out of it. That is not magic, that is just a misdiagnosis.

I think you're missing the point in both aspects.

First off, people dream about relatives fairly frequently, particularly those they haven't seen in a while.  By sheer coincidence, some of these dreams are inevitably going to appear to 'come true'.

Secondly, there's no need to complain about magic.  The soldier with the toe tag could simply have been hallucinating.

Boru

[Brian37]

Just the other night, they had an annoying Halloween episode, where Potter described a loved one having another dead loved one show up in sitting on her bed in her sleep, and the next day, her family told her her loved one died. Also in the episode the gang got their Halloween party disrupted by incoming wounded, but one guy had a toe tag on him so they ignored him. At the end of the episode the transport truck was about to take him away but the Father wanted to give him last rights, and discovered he was still alive.

Both are fucking bullshit stories in reality. 

"Seeing the dead" is sleep paralysis, first off. Nor does that worry take into account all the time one worries about someone and nothing happens. Selection bias and sample rate error. 

But the seemingly dead guy is the worst. It is possible for nurses and doctors to not find a pulse or vital signs,  and to have the patient fly under the radar, and come out of it. That is not magic, that is just a misdiagnosis.

I think you're missing the point in both aspects.

First off, people dream about relatives fairly frequently, particularly those they haven't seen in a while.  By sheer coincidence, some of these dreams are inevitably going to appear to 'come true'.

Secondly, there's no need to complain about magic.  The soldier with the toe tag could simply have been hallucinating.

Boru

Not the point. In the show, Winchester was the only to state the obvious in "coincidence". I agree in REALITY it is what I said, selection bias and sample rate error or as Winchester said as you just did now "coincidence". The plot of the show was not to promote skepticism to the super natural, but to pander to it.

The soldier with the TOE TAG wasn't the one thinking he was dead. The implication in the show was that the doctors thought he was dead.

[outtathereligioncloset]

Do ya'll know the name of the theme song?

"Suicide is Painless."

[Fake Messiah]

Not the point. In the show, Winchester was the only to state the obvious in "coincidence". I agree in REALITY it is what I said, selection bias and sample rate error or as Winchester said as you just did now "coincidence". The plot of the show was not to promote skepticism to the super natural, but to pander to it.

The soldier with the TOE TAG wasn't the one thinking he was dead. The implication in the show was that the doctors thought he was dead.

Well maybe you are overreacting, I mean it's obvious that they just wanted to make an episode in the spirit of Halloween - spooky - and, yes, therefore cheapen it.

But talk about disappointment I remember watching some documentary about science that Alan Alda did and in it he went to few places in the world and at one point he was doing some mock surgery in which he wasn't that good at and the woman surgeon said to him "you are ruining Hawkeye for me".

What was funny was that he went to Arecibo telescope and scientists there told him how they are listening to signals in outer space and if they discover alien signals it will be the greatest discovery in science. And then Alda asked them coldly "Why is this going to be the greatest discovery in science?" and they just kept quiet.

[onlinebiker]

I'm alive - because I once did a Radar O'Reilly....

I did a full emergency stop on a motorcycle - and started that stop BEFORE the woman pulled out in front of me.

Once she realized what she did - she slammed on the brakes and stopped.

I came to a stop.

We sat there shitting ourselves - my front tire less than 10 feet from her driver's door.

No idea how that happened.

Occasionally shit happens that we can't quite explain. I doubt it's magical or supernatural.