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Because I want to clip it for future vid-making, I've been going back through China Beach, albeit in a much less frenzied fashion than I inhaled the first three seasons over the past few weeks.
I'm most of the way through S1, and in retrospect, McMurphy is clearly harboring a crush on Richard. Most of it, I think, can be read as friendship--I certainly read it that way my first time through--such as the way she just lights up when he comes back early from Hawaii (really, it's amazing), or when she stays with him to remove the live round from the soldier's abdomen.
The events of "Somewhere Over the Radio," on the other hand...how did I miss it? To be fair, I'm not sure McMurphy was aware of it until a certain point; her line about never connecting the lawn and house he keeps talking about to a family until she saw the pictures reads like she just understood why she hadn't connected it right then and there. On the other hand...that shirt. Yikes. That is quite something for a friend. Friends, I love you, but I would not sew that shirt for you. I would also not intend for you to give it to your spouse, this shirt with all the evidence of your life away from said spouse and with me, me, me.
(P.S. McMurphy, please tell me that machine was requisitioned from the laundry area or whatever, and that you did not bring a sewing machine to VIETNAM.)
KC certainly has her number. Though I'm not sure if her "For a smart girl, you can be incredibly dumb" is meant to imply that McMurphy's wasting her time crushing on Richard because despite the adolescent butt-pinching, he'll never actually stray from his wife and if he did it wouldn't be with a nice girl like her, or if she's implying that McMurphy has no idea what the connotations of her actions are and she better wise up before Richard takes her up on something she didn't mean to be putting out there.
Unrelated, but also of note: At the end of "Brothers," when McMurphy and Richard walk out of the ward together, is that an extra in the background shoving stringy pieces of raw meat into a pail? And is that raw meat supposed to be human? Daaaaamn, this show was thorough in its gruesomeness.
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I'm most of the way through S1, and in retrospect, McMurphy is clearly harboring a crush on Richard. Most of it, I think, can be read as friendship--I certainly read it that way my first time through--such as the way she just lights up when he comes back early from Hawaii (really, it's amazing), or when she stays with him to remove the live round from the soldier's abdomen.
The events of "Somewhere Over the Radio," on the other hand...how did I miss it? To be fair, I'm not sure McMurphy was aware of it until a certain point; her line about never connecting the lawn and house he keeps talking about to a family until she saw the pictures reads like she just understood why she hadn't connected it right then and there. On the other hand...that shirt. Yikes. That is quite something for a friend. Friends, I love you, but I would not sew that shirt for you. I would also not intend for you to give it to your spouse, this shirt with all the evidence of your life away from said spouse and with me, me, me.
(P.S. McMurphy, please tell me that machine was requisitioned from the laundry area or whatever, and that you did not bring a sewing machine to VIETNAM.)
KC certainly has her number. Though I'm not sure if her "For a smart girl, you can be incredibly dumb" is meant to imply that McMurphy's wasting her time crushing on Richard because despite the adolescent butt-pinching, he'll never actually stray from his wife and if he did it wouldn't be with a nice girl like her, or if she's implying that McMurphy has no idea what the connotations of her actions are and she better wise up before Richard takes her up on something she didn't mean to be putting out there.
Unrelated, but also of note: At the end of "Brothers," when McMurphy and Richard walk out of the ward together, is that an extra in the background shoving stringy pieces of raw meat into a pail? And is that raw meat supposed to be human? Daaaaamn, this show was thorough in its gruesomeness.
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comments over there.