This is more of the same Sleazywood crapola.
Sleazywood does this to make their own warped lives seem less warped. They desperately try to normalize their sick, out-of-the-mainstream life.
Doesn't seem to work....they are still FREAKS.
Yet M*A*S*H was awesome, nonetheless.
Yup...my favorite M*A*S*H character was Frank Burns. He was a buffoon but the only conservative on the show...even though the writers made him a hypocritical two-timing moron.
It was funny with the original M*A*S*H* movie. You had Elliot Gould and Donald Sutherland making that one here, and you had George C. Scott making Patton, the Greatest War Movie Ever Made (if not the greatest movie ever made) over there. They were all equally liberal and equally antiwar. Strange world isn't it.
I never really noticed that. I saw a lot about pro-America and pro-people, and glorified the work of the guy just doing his job. They often showed what people here are asking about this show: the soldiers who do good by the locals. Potter was held up as the gold standard for a commander, and he was representative of much that is good in the Army. There was a LOT of criticism of the Army, but in Korea the Army was pretty FUBAR after the post-WWII drawdown.
It did slide quite a bit after Alda took over writing and directing, but a few gems popped up here and there.