I'm not even a shipper of any M.A.S.H. pairing, just generally enjoyed the show. But this fic... amazing! You are such a talented writer! I have no appropriate words to do justice to this amazing work of yours.

Thank you! Hawkeye/Charles isn't exactly something I see on the screen, but it was fun to play with on assignment, to try to find their convergences. And one of the biggest convergences I saw was here, at the end of the war: they're both so traumatized.

The whole show seemed to take a new turn after his arrival. The jokes were more inventive, original, the dialog seemed deeper, more real somehow. And the characters seemed to grow more complete. Like the show finally had a track that it was set to follow, not just timidly testing the waters.

Absolutely. I think there were some fantastic episodes during the Frank years, but I agree, my feeling has always been it came into its own with Charles and Potter. It gained a lot of emotional depth and range once all the characters ceased to be caricatures.

The dream episode -if you recall, there was an ep where they all had dreams while waiting out the night (?)- is proof of that, and such a wonderful peep hole into the personalities involved.

Yes! Such a wonderful episode. Sometimes I can't believe M*A*S*H is thirty years old, it's still so timely and insightful.

Ugh, God, I'm rambling! So sorry, I lost it there for a moment. I obviously enjoyed the show very much, and I'm so very glad that I checked through your fics and found this one.:)

I liked your rambling. :) And I'm very glad you found this and enjoyed it, too! Thanks so much.