Say No More

This to me was one of the best MASH episodes...well done juxtapositions of serious plot issues and the comedic banter between Winchester(who can't stand Margaret's worship of the surgeon she's dying to meet, yet he's reluctantly helping her make it happen with his voice, not hers!) and the serious tone in the scenario of the badly wounded soldier and his Two-Star General Dad, skillfully played by John Anderson. The son in the episode played his part very well---you could feel the pain he was experiencing with his wounds and the desire to have that approval from his father to know that he, the son had "given his all".

What struck me to make this episode one of the best was the fact that Hawkeye showed humility and respect for the General---not at the beginning, but near the end, which was refreshing since many of the episodes had him mostly over-the-top disrespectful and sarcastic to military authority figures he would encounter who had an impossible job to do.

They end up at the end having respect for each other, even though they come from two different worlds...if only for a moment, sharing a drink in honor of the fallen one's that they never get to know...then back to their respective worlds of tragedy and the horrors of war.