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But there is the undeniable sensation of moving through the camp – not as a series of set pieces, but as a continuous camp. We hardly see any of the 4077 camp, just the points of tents and flagpoles in the corners of our vision as the jeep drives past. In one of the most powerful scenes in the episode, Radar rides the jeep with us all the way from the helipad to the surgery. We sit there and look at the spinning blades above us as a deluded-looking man in a Hawaiian T-shirt tells us we will be okay and a cross-dresser helps load us into a jeep. In an early scene, we watch from the soldier’s eyes on the side of the descending helicopter as the ambulances and jeeps rush up to the landing pad. In “Point of View” the setting was the same, but the way we saw it changed dramatically. In the countless episodes already watched, the same scenes would be seen from the same angles by the same camera.
Our arms stretch up to write a note on a notepad because our throat wound is preventing us from talking.Īs viewers, we never leave the perspective of the wounded soldier’s body and the way we experience the space of the 4077 shifts dramatically. Other characters look into the camera as they talk into “our” eyes, or just below the camera to work on our wound. As viewers, we don’t just follow this soldier’s journey from the battlefield to the helicopter to the 4077 surgery to post-op, we live it through the soldier’s own body and subjective viewpoint. The entire episode is filmed from the first-person perspective of an American soldier who is wounded by artillery fire. “Point of View” is one of M*A*S*H’s many experimental episodes and it is one I had never seen before last week. Across dozens of episodes, I have had (please excuse the pun) a hawk’s-eye view of the 4077, but before watching the season seven episode “Point of View,” I had never experienced the 4077 as a singular, continuous place. I could (if I dared) walk with my eyes closed from the Officer’s Club to Major Houlihan’s tent.Īs a series of spaces, I know how the 4077 works. I know where Colonel Potter’s office is in relation to post-op and the surgery theater. I know where The Swamp is in relation the mess tent. By now, I can draw a rough mental sketch of the layout of the 4077.
We are currently nearing the end of season seven, having watched roughly three episodes a night for the past many months.
It has its inconsistencies, especially in the earlier seasons, but largely the series does a remarkable job of painting the everyday lives and places of the 4077 Mobile Army Surgical Hospital.
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We’ve both seen plenty of episodes on TV at one time or another - there seems to always be at least two different channels playing random episodes on a daily basis – but we wanted to see how it held up as a proper, progressive narrative. Helen and I are currently watching M*AS*H from start to finish. All I really want from a videogame is to feel like a body in a world – even a damaged and unusable one.
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