Reply #39: Hawkeye & Kyung Soon (actress Kieu-Chinh), Season 6, Episode 127, "In Love And War" [View All]

[Amerigo Vespucci]

ONLY complaint with the story is that it is too "time-compressed"...there's no way something like this would play out realistically in a short "one episode" time frame.

But the HONESTY is there...Hawkeye HATES her because he feels she is a silver-spoon type, and when he finds out who she really is, falls in love with her.

The episode showed that for all of his high moral ground, Hawkeye...like 99% of us...was not perfect and not immune from making faulty, rash judgments about others.

Also, it showed that in a time of war, the thing most people are looking for is love. That's war, in a very surface-level, academic sense...the absence of love. Finding love is a means of somehow restoring sanity to an insane situation. The characters "found" each other for a moment in time, but it was not something that could have lasted. It didn't. And as such, it felt real, and I consider it to be one of the best episodes of the entire series.

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