#period of adjustment

[remyfire]

D. S. Stylus, Director's Note // S4E1-2 Welcome to Korea // S7E23 Preventative Medicine // S9E14 Oh, How We Danced // S8E6 Period of Adjustment // S10E17 Where There's A Will, There's A War

#baby's first web weaving is this anything i don't know but i was compelled so i had to #web weaving #m*a*s*h #bj hunnicutt #hawkeye pierce #hunnihawk #beejhawk #hawkbeej #s4e1 #s4e2 #welcome to korea #s7e23 #preventative medicine #s9e14 #oh how we danced #s8e6 #period of adjustment #s10e17 #where there's a will there's a war

[stroyent]

his ass is NOT sorry

#I'm so angry at a fictional character it's unreasonable #bj hunnicutt #s08e06 #period of adjustment #m*a*s*h

[mashpoll]

Period of Adjustment (s8 e6): Radar’s departure proves challenging for Klinger, having a tough act to follow as company clerk; and for BJ, whose homesickness explodes when he learns Radar was able to visit the Hunnicutt family in California on his way home.

Dr. Pierce and Mr. Hyde (s2 e5): After operating non-stop for more than a day, Hawkeye flips out and, among other things, tries to give North Korea the camp’s latrine.

#period of adjustment #dr pierce and mr hyde #season 8 #season 2 #round 3

[radarsteddybear]

In "Period of Adjustment," BJ talks about how much Erin has grown and changed in the time he's been in Korea versus how much Hawkeye's father hasn't, and somewhere in there is a parallel between how different Erin is going to in BJ's eyes when he finally makes it home and how different Hawkeye is going to be in his father's eyes when he finally makes it home.

(Years later, BJ Hunnicutt and Daniel Pierce finally meet and find that they have a lot more to talk about than they'd ever imagined.)

#M*A*S*H #Period of Adjustment #BJ Hunnicutt #Daniel Pierce #Hawkeye Pierce #Erin Hunnicutt #parallels #teddy bear musings #original post

[mistertellevision]

Now playing in the mess tent

Ref

#mash #mash 4077 #m*a*s*h #mash fanart #digital art #digital artist #metv #tv: mash #mistertv art #retrosupply #bj hunnicutt #mike farrell #vintage #vintage art #period of adjustment #radar o'reilly #corporal o'reilly #gary burghoff #peg hunnicutt

[transjudas]

Actually, the still didn't do this. Hunnicutt did.

#mashedit #mash #mash 4077 #hawkeye pierce #charles emerson winchester iii #charles winchester #period of adjustment #here you go anon! <3

[moderndayamymarch]

period of adjustment thoughts:

first off: I just think it’s adorable to picture radar meeting peggy and erin (sorry bj). it would be wild to meet someone who saw your husband like a day ago when you hadn’t seen him in over a year

bj destroying the still (the inanimate object that hawkeye treasures the most in korea) and then just decking hawkeye is truly something else

like trapper hit hawk once but it was a with a duffel bag and it was done in a decidedly more comedic tone

I keep thinking about the post that said that trapper and hawkeye existed on the same page- they both kinda viewed each other as their lifeline to the outside world while bj still views peggy and erin as his lifeline, making bj then sometimes treat hawkeye as kind of a physical representation of the war- i.e. the thing keeping him from his family. it’s a viewpoint that coexists with hawkeye also being bj’s only solace in the war so just a lot going on there

the radar dart board drawing is hilarious

radar said “don’t call me sis cause I ain’t your sister” to his haters

just poor hawkeye.

he’s tired, he’s been in this hellhole for god knows how long, he’s trying to take care of this patient, and he’s decked by his best friend, and his one outlet from the war is destroyed by said best friend, that friend also makes undermining comments about his relationship with the only family member he has left: his father. and he gets one apology from bj!

like I don’t blame bj, he’s understandably going through it, I can’t imagine being separated from your young child and then hearing they called someone else “daddy”. but I feel like hawkeye deserved a better apology that he got. but bj was drunk so

but they rebuilt the still! maybe there’s something symbolic about the still being now built with bj and not trapper. bj even makes a comment when discussing his jealousy of trapper that trapper was the one who built the still with hawkeye originally. so now the still is all new parts, does that make it a new still? theseus’s still, am I right?

#mash #hawkeye pierce #bj hunnicutt #is this the first instance of the so called “trapper complex”? #period of adjustment #forgot to mention about charles helping hawkeye out with the black eye #it was reluctant but he still helped! #once again thinking of auden’s the sea and the mirror poem #“now that our partnership is dissolved I feel so peculiar…”

[onekisstotakewithme]

Period of Adjustment - a Defense of Peg

So I've been thinking about Peg in "Period of Adjustment", and I've seen a lot of "how DARE she send BJ that letter, shouldn't she have KNOWN??" yadda yadda.

Anyway it really got me thinking that Peg is kind of between a rock and a hard place here. Oh and obviously she's not responsible for BJ's actions or reactions. That should go without saying.

Peg goes to meet Radar at the airport out of the kindness of her heart, and of course she brings Erin, who is too little and too far removed from her father to differentiate men in Class A uniforms.

And she calls Radar "Daddy".

Which has to be devastating for Peg, first of all. Erin was probably barely a month old when BJ left, and she doesn't remember him (this is what we mean when we say BJ's loss to the war was his daughter's lifetime, which also comes up in POA), enough so that any stranger in an airport could be her daddy.

And Peg has to live with that knowledge.

But while she and Radar can maybe laugh it off in the moment, what happens when BJ inevitably asks how it went?

Peg doesn't know Radar from Adam, and what if he writes to BJ and tells him what happened? Then Peg will look like a liar by omission.

And of course, he's her husband, so of course she's going to tell him. Maybe she puts a humorous spin on it to conceal her own upset feelings, maybe she hopes if she plays it off as a joke, they can just get on with it. But she has to tell him.

So tl;dr- Peg is in between a rock and a hard place. She's not going to lie to BJ. She's probably upset about it herself. And Peg isn't responsible for BJ's reaction either.

#peg hunnicutt #bj hunnicutt #meta #period of adjustment #m*a*s*h #this is a bit of a ramble but alas

[variousqueerthings]

Okay this got long, so let’s divide it into two: the “BJ Part” and the “Trapper???? Part”

BJ:

To get off my chest first of all – while I was shocked that BJ hit Hawkeye, I wasn’t surprised.

Simply put: things have been building for awhile!

I’d identified a couple of weeks ago that there had been a disconnect between what I’d… sort of been assuming BJ was going to be like and how he’s actually portrayed on the show.

And the assumption-of-BJ is very interesting on its own, because I like to read that from Hawkeye’s perspective too – and that is that BJ isn’t allowed to be flawed! BJ is Hawkeye’s second chance! BJ is a Better Man Than Trapper! BJ maintains his essential Goodness throughout the whole story and acts as Hawkeye’s pillar of support! (I even wrote that’s how I read him while I was watching season 4 and yeah I still stand by that, because he was supporting a lot in that season, but there’s so much more happening with that concept now -- the concept is being... problematized. We love to see it).

And the first chink in the armour came way back in the episode where he cheated on Peggy. I wrote back then that I was having a hard time reconciling that with BJ-as-I was-trying-to-construct-him, because I didn’t get where he was coming from, because the episode didn’t really afford him a perspective in the choice.

I also wrote a speculative thing about Hawkeye needing desperately for BJ to be perfect (hence warning him off cheating before it ever happens, hence the adamance that he not tell Peggy, hence the Vow never to do so again). And now I feel so much more how I The Audience was feeling like Hawkeye – wait, you can’t be flawed, you’re the perfect to Trapper’s human! You’re going to Fix Things! You’re Good!

And that unease of not being sure what he was as a character sat with me for quite awhile, as other pieces were added to him, until I conceded that maybe BJ is more complex and that maybe… he’s not perfect (gasp). Specifically he’s not perfect in ways that may cause discomfort: the tension of Masculinity.

He’s been changing a lot, especially since the appearance of the moustache and the pink/red shirts, but he’s also still reconciling with the fact that everything that he considered to be How Things Are (housewives and working husbands, women don’t go to war, an American Hero can change things, he’s starting an All-American Family and he’ll hear his daughter’s first words…) is falling to pieces around him. Reality is disintegrating and in its place is... ?

And on top of that, it’s not so hard to read Hawkeye desperately wanting him to Be Okay, both for his sake, but also selfishly because Hawkeye is Not Okay, and if BJ can keep it together and go home in one piece then Hawkeye can do the same by proxy. So he doesn’t want BJ to be unhappy, he doesn’t want BJ to feel ugly emotions, he wants BJ to go back home to his wife and kid at the end and leave it all behind (just like Trapper did, but it’s different, Hawkeye swears). 

A lot of BJ episodes feel like stripping him away, or the “him” that is an archetype of American Pie Guy – aforementioned cheating episode, the episode where he acts as a father to the Korean family, the episode where he calls Peg to ask if she still needs him, this episode, (and to some extent preventative medicine, because it may be a Break Hawkeye episode, but BJ can’t stop it from happening, despite trying – and BJ is a supportive person, so when that role is no longer possible, or necessary, what does he have left… as a man? As a person? What is his role in society/in this story?)

So… shock but not surprise. And also not another risk of simplification, because while he has violence in him (noticeably the last time he was properly violent was to protect Hawkeye…) he’s not now reduced to A Violent Man. I’ll resist any further placement, because again, I think he’s partially defined by the instability of his role/his ability to evolve throughout the whole story, so I don’t think where he is now is necessarily where he’ll be at the end. But the Tension is wonderful! The Tension is a great exploration of his archetype and subversion and dissolving thereof! The Tension makes my heart hurt a bit!

And it’s not only about that, it’s also another entry into the wider canon about how people in this story aren’t allowed to process loss, because the situation doesn’t recognise these things as loss: in this case the violation of being forced away from the life he had only just started building, and the way it’s not recognised as Real Grief (and Hawkeye didn’t get it earlier either, but now he does) --

other examples of loss that aren’t strictly death: Hawkeye mourning Trapper in s4 (and the lack of catharsis in it), not getting to have a party for Radar before he left, Margaret learning she’ll presumably never be allowed the kind of career a brilliant woman like her deserves, Hawkeye’s youth, innocence across the board, and now, finally said outright (although hinted at in many a previous episode), the fact that BJ missed the first few years of his daughter’s life. And the way it’s phrased in the scene itself feels like death. He’s missed her lifetime.

(Mike! Mike I just wanna talk! How dare you!!!)

It's so raw. And it’s not an Allowed grief – if it were he’d never have been drafted right after her birth to begin with! He’s been forcibly removed from his newborn child and now she’s talking and walking and doesn’t even know what he looks like. He’ll never get that back. That’s violence, against him, against Erin, and it’ll always be there between them. 

And there’s still almost 4 seasons left to go. Fuck.

#bj hunnicutt #im watching MASH #MASH #hawkeye pierce #peggy hunnicutt #erin hunnicutt #period of adjustment #i deliberately avoided hawkeye's perspective on this post

[klingers-outfits]

Period of Adjustment Part 2

#mash #max klinger #period of adjustment

[whothefuckisjanefonda]

Jane Fonda in 'Period of Adjustment' [1962]

#jane fonda #period of adjustment #60's #old hollywood #classic #gifs #queue

[mashpoll]

Goodbye, Cruel World (s8 e21): Sidney Freedman visits the 4077th to help an Asian-American soldier who may be on the brink of suicide.

Period of Adjustment (s8 e6): Radar's departure proves challenging for Klinger, having a tough act to follow as company clerk; and for BJ, whose homesickness explodes when he learns Radar was able to visit the Hunnicutt family in California on his way home.

#goodbye cruel world #period of adjustment #season 8 #round 1

[jamborae]

Do you think BJ ever wrote to Peg about the things that happened in Period of Adjustment? “Dear Peg, had a breakdown the other day and went on a drunken rampage in the compound...”. Like in my mind he could only have referenced that in the very vaguest of terms, censorship or no.

#bj hunnicutt #mash #period of adjustment

[lazylittledragon]

You said that with Dadstarion he coped with Dorian being pregnant surprisingly well but what about Gale?? I can see him and Cyra trying to Logic their way around the horrors of it all

i think they would’ve been fine!! probably a mix of excited and horrified.

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #gale dekarios #galemance #dadkarios #that one little sweater is def from dorian #gale has a designated ‘cyra is being unhinged again’ face #i don’t think they had the acceptance/adjustment period like dadstarion i think they just loved her from day 1 #pregnancy cw

[hinata-boke]

tiny birthday boy doodle!!

#my art #haikyuu #bokuto #akaashi #bokuaka #doodle #i wasnt originally gonna draw a lot of birthday stuff bc theres too many characters id want to draw them of #but i needed to draw something for bokkun #didnt have time to draw something cool and epic so little squishy it is #also have been having some sort of mental adjustment period as my schedule's changed a lot so #that explains the absence of art #(1hqaday im so sorry) #anyways happy birthday bokuto #obligatory akaashi bc i didnt have energy to draw a lot of characters but i didnt want him to be lonely #if i could i would have drawn fukurodani and his other besties so hes surrounded by people on his birthday #just imagine theyre behind the camera

[kiruvry]

sincerely sorry guys i got jnto something new Again ☹

#overwatch #ovw #overwatch 2 #ovw2 #hanzo shimada #cole cassidy #reinhardt willhelm #reinhardt #zenyatta #zenyatta tekhartha #i love the period of time where im freshly in a new hyperfixation #and like. i get to miserably fail and scramble about to try and adjust everybody to my artstyle