#and I think that’s so boring and honestly pretty grating after 5 seasons. Sorry Larry Linville ily :(

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Idk there’s something about characters in media who are entirely evil that I really hate. And by entirely evil I mean like has not a single redeeming quality. I love MASH (obviously) but Frank Burns is the kind of character who pisses me off because it feels like such a weak shorthand to me to make a character who is mean and cowardly and criminally bad at his job and has a loveless marriage and doesn’t have any friends and is a huge hypocrite and acts like a child and whines constantly and on and on and on…I just feel that there’s an implication there that bad people have not a single thing that is good about them and they live the exact miserable lives they deserve, and it’s such a boring black and white way to present characters. It’s like Disney movie storytelling where the villains are ugly and the heroes are beautiful. Anyway that’s why I think they did something so different with Charles—he’s still an antagonist for a lot of the episodes and you would hate him if you knew him irl but he has all these little pieces of personhood that show up every once in awhile. It’s like he’s actually there in a way that Frank never was.

#this is the most surface level character analysis but I was just thinking about it #because I realized that I watch a lot of sitcoms and most of the time I LOVE the ‘bad’ guy of the group if there is one #(Dan Fielding hi for the love of god hello) #but I couldn’t ever stand Frank Burns in a really visceral way #and I think that’s why…if you held a gun to my head I couldn’t think of a single thing Frank does in the show that could be considered good #in any way shape or form #and I think that’s so boring and honestly pretty grating after 5 seasons. Sorry Larry Linville ily :( #ANYWAY. All this is to say I just watched the episode of Night Court where they deliver like five babies #and Dan is the only one who knows what he’s doing. I love episodes where Dan is competent they’re like chicken soup for my soul #this is a long dumb post. please ignore