pacing my room like a middle aged detective do you understand hawkeye pierce is a tragic figure locked in the sisyphean sitcom structure. you can’t watch the finale and tell me with a straight face that hawkeye’s arc in it is not deeply heartbreaking. yes he’s the court jester, the jolly harlequin, but his mom died when he was ten & everybody keeps leaving him! all he wants is to heal people and bring joy and laughter! but he got removed from his life by the american war machine to work against an endless tide of Death and Human Suffering for years and he kept rolling that rock up that goddamn hill until it rolled back down and crushed him. he survived, but my god. my god the cost it had on him. do you understand? do you? he’s hamlet he’s cassandra he’s the goddamn Hanged Man. his cousin tried to kill him when he was a kid. he nearly killed himself trying to save every life that landed on his table. he was stuck in purgatory for 3 and/or 11 years. he’s in the goddamn iliad. troy is burning, and he’s not sure if he’s getting out