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My wife still loves it - so much that I bought her the boxed set a couple of years ago. That said, it always kinda pissed me off that instead of actually, ya know, trying for a bit of reality and following the movie (set in Vietnam) they dumbed it down and made it as anti-military as possible. Contrived and crappy, it went on for WAY too many years and I thought that about the only "edgy" thing they ever did was when Hawkeye called Sidney Freeman a sonofabitch which had never before been allowed during prime time. The fact that everything about it was totally unrealistic made it unwatchable to me. Of course, since I bought the damn boxed set for the wife, I've had to sit and watch every single episode with her at least once.
The original movie was great and did exactly what it was supposed to do: spoof the Vietnam War. The tv show would have been better if they killed it after the first year or two. I always found it amazing that they had a show that lasted for what? Ten years? About a war that we were involved in for three years. Sure, I understand that you can't show every aspect of a three year war in three years of half hour sitcoms but still, when your actors have so visibly aged in the span that your show is on, it looks stupid.
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