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MASH: Col. Blake's Death scene WTF Ok this for all you old enough to remember MASH. It's the famous (and sad) episode of where Col. Blake was killed. Radar goes into the ER and gives the bad news (as shown above). WTF??? Radar can't you wait until all of Col. friends and colleagues are done performing life saving surgery before you drop that bomb on them. Hey everybody Col, Blake is dead, now go back to doing that surgery thing you guys do | |
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I remember the scene, never thought anything about the timing. But thinking now I'd say they experienced way more traumatic thing being a MASH unit in the midst of surgery, they would have nerves of steel at that point. Time keeps on slipping into the future...
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Sorry, it's the Hodgkin's talking. | |
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I 100% disagree with you Trivia it is a WTF moment. Radar could have waited until after everyone was done doing surgery to give the bad news. The nerves of steel........ehhhh..... They are humans with emotions and it's different when you know the person. Though it made for great TV. Yup I knew about them not knowing that Col. Blake had died. Come to think of it I think it would have been even more dramatic if they shot the episode where the doctors finished saving all the wounded soldiers (with everyone patting themselves on the back for doing a good job) only to have Radar come in and give them the bad news that Col. Blake had been killed. I could see Hawkeye picking up a chair and throwing it to the ground. [Edited 2/1/22 8:41am] | |
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Oy. The actors were told right before the scene was filmed. They weren't surprised on camera. The director didn't want their foreknowledge of Blake's death to color their performances in the episode, so he withheld the conclusion until they were about to film it. | |
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You mean not told???? | |
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Not really. It's more of an after thought | |
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I read the actors from Alien didn't know that the Alien was going to pop out of John Hurt's stomach. Not sure how true that story is. How to even shoot that scene without the actors knowing?? Trivia do you know?? | |
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Y'all would argue over a shade of red on a brick house, I swear to God. Sorry, it's the Hodgkin's talking. | |
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Well heck imma throw in the tv show fringe. Walter performed autopsies, surgeries, had his office and a live cow all in the same room. Not sanitized at all. Olivia, Peter and Astrid all standing around unmasked just gawking and breathing all over whomever Walter was performing brain surgeries on. I mean really! Time keeps on slipping into the future...
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I guess I get it. People like a good story. They actually prefer it to the truth. The actors reacting to something they didn't know about beforehand makes for a good story. Just like some orgers prefer to think they know more than scientists and the gullible masses do about diseases. It makes life more interesting, I guess. More dangerous, sure, but more interesting. | |
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Is that schoolhouse red or fire engine red??????? | |
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War is heck. I'll tell U what the Eye in the Pimp stand 4! | |
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