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Well said, and I agree. This is such a great episode that exemplifies the characters and their relationships that I don't care at all about the technical problems. I just watched this one tonight, and gave it a 10 - the first since "Black and White."Rembrandt's Girl wrote:Operation Silent Night is one of my all time favorites and I actually remember seeing it when it first aired. I just love everything about it, from the lighthearted silly interactions with the characters, to the scenes that illustrate their true camaraderie, to the respect they show for the Japanese pilot. The ending with the guys singing gives me goose bumps and brings tears to my eyes every time I watch it, and that has been many, many times. Were there "technical" errors? Yes, I suppose so, but while I'm watching I don't look for that. I just watch the episode for the sheer enjoyment...and actually that's the way I view the entire series.
That is what Burma is often called, the Forgotten War. Most of the media/public attention of the time was focused on Europe and the American advance across the Pacific. Still is, really. I applaud MPI for making Higgins a Burma veteran.jeffran wrote:Well said, and I agree. This is such a great episode that exemplifies the characters and their relationships that I don't care at all about the technical problems. I just watched this one tonight, and gave it a 10 - the first since "Black and White."Rembrandt's Girl wrote:Operation Silent Night is one of my all time favorites and I actually remember seeing it when it first aired. I just love everything about it, from the lighthearted silly interactions with the characters, to the scenes that illustrate their true camaraderie, to the respect they show for the Japanese pilot. The ending with the guys singing gives me goose bumps and brings tears to my eyes every time I watch it, and that has been many, many times. Were there "technical" errors? Yes, I suppose so, but while I'm watching I don't look for that. I just watch the episode for the sheer enjoyment...and actually that's the way I view the entire series.
A humorous highlight - Rick's funeral. Another highlight is Higgins' speech about "forgotten battles, sometimes forgotten wars".
I figured this out. He had the stick and the palm fronds in his right hand. It is only later that the guys see him with the stick in his right hand and the palm fronds in his left.wilko wrote:Here's another flub.
When Magnum, TC and Rick are looking for Higgins they come across what appears to be "peg leg" tracks (a footprint of his left shoe and a circular impression where the fight foot should be) which they discover to have been made by Higgins walking with a stick in his right hand and dragging palm fronds in his left hand.
This is impossible. If Higgins is dragging the palm fronds in his left hand then the fronds would erase his left shoe prints and not his right shoe print. Conversely if Higgins was dragging the palm fronds with his right hand then he would have to hold the stick in his left hand which would leave the bizzare track of a left shoe print and a circular impression to the outside of that.
golfmobile wrote:Then their lifiting off just as the bombing starts -- after working all day on the heli, suddenly after dark, TC gets it conveniently fixed? This episode across the board was just a little TOO contrived for me, just one of them that was "trying too hard." Sorry, guys!
It made sense. TC knew about the option of using the "bang on the exciter with a hammer" trick all along, but he didn't want to try it unless he had to. Here's some dialog from shortly after they landed on the island:SignGuyHPW wrote:It also didn't make sense that they just took off when the shelling happened like they could've left any time that they wanted.
By the end of the episode, TC had already done a lot of troubleshooting, so he would have had the problem narrowed down a lot more than he did at the beginning of the episode. Had there not been artillery shells raining down, he may have wanted to do a little more trouble shooting, but it was suddenly a life or death situation, so he had no choice but to have Magnum bang on the exciter with a hammer right then and there and take his "one shot" gamble.Magnum: Hey, why don't you just bang on it with a ball peen hammer like you did that time in [somewhere in Vietnam]? It started right up.
TC: Because it might not be the exciter. We've only got one shot with that thing. We make a mistake we'll melt the whole engine down.
K Hale,K Hale wrote:I’ve decided I’m glad we never find out what Rick got up to with his cousin!
K Hale wrote:I enjoyed how it got just a little bit creepier every time he tried to tell it to one of the others.
