Sidney Freedman

[qzee.livejournal.com]

Hi there, I need to know something for a fic. Was Sidney Freedman's cultural background or faith ever alluded to on the show? I seem to remember a discussion between him and Francis Mulcahy in which Sidney's beliefs were briefly touched on, but maybe it was a part of a fic. So, any ideas what his cultural background is? Can you back up your theories with dialogue in one of the episodes?

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[likethesun2.livejournal.com]

Off the top of my head, the only bit of dialogue that really suggests anything concrete comes from "Quo Vadis, Captain Chandler?"--the season-four episode with the soldier who thinks he's Jesus Christ.

BJ: Come to see your savior?
SIDNEY: Mine? No. Yours?

There are multiple ways to interpret that--Sidney's agnostic, atheist, or belongs any number of non-Christian faiths--but I think probably the most plausible, given the mine/yours dichotomy, is that Sidney's Jewish.

There are other, subtler cues, but that's the one I use in my personal canon. :)

[nyssa23.livejournal.com]

Sidney, I'm certain, was Jewish. I don't know that they ever came out and said it, but there were hints. For example, in the episode "Hawk's Nightmare," in response to Hawkeye's question about whether he's going crazy, Sidney tells Hawkeye, "No, a bit confused, a little farshimmelt (Yiddish for "confused") is all."

Darn it, I know there's more than that but it's late and I can't think of any others.

[nyssa23.livejournal.com]

P.S. Are you writing a Sidney story? If so, yay! There is just not enough Sidney fic out there. Not to toot my own horn or anything, but I'm planning a short fic featuring the sadly-underused Major Freedman for this year's daysofawesome Jewish character ficathon.

So I guess you could say I have sort of a vested interest in Sidney's Jewishness. ^_^

[qzee.livejournal.com]

actually, I'm planning on writing at least one for that group too. I'll go check to see if more than one person can choose the same character. (I'm thinking Sidney/Hawkeye implied)

[qzee.livejournal.com]

the maintainer of the community has confirmed that she will welcome both yours and my stories and that writing about Sidney is okay.

I'm doing the top grid: guilt, betrayal, robbery, slander, perverse, wicked willful. I think I'll get all seven done (I already have two written and a third started). I look forward to reading yours.