I think those themes come up on China Beach and even in MASH -- although the pointlessness comes from the fact that they are fixing up soldiers to send them back out to get killed/injured again.
There's an episode of China Beach where McMurphy gets investigated because a dying soldier wills her all his possessions. They ask her to describe that day (the day he died) and she does, but at the end of it she says "they're all the same." All her days are the same, she doesn't remember that day, or the kid who died.
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Date: 2006-06-07 10:13 am (UTC)There's an episode of China Beach where McMurphy gets investigated because a dying soldier wills her all his possessions. They ask her to describe that day (the day he died) and she does, but at the end of it she says "they're all the same." All her days are the same, she doesn't remember that day, or the kid who died.