A remark someone made in another thread brought this to mind. I was thinking about MAS*H, specifically. I saw the series finale recently, and in the final scene, BJ Hunnicut promises Hawkeye Pierice that he’ll look him up when they’re back in the States.
I believe Hunnicut fully intended to do that. I also believe that Pierce never let it happen. Toward the end of the series, Hawkeye genuinely, truly hated himself, and on some level thought that BJ would grow to hate him if they tried to maintain their friendship back home.
But that’s just me. What do y’all think? And you needn’t restrict yourself to MAS*H. Did Andy Sipowicz retain the affections of his squad as their boss? Did Lorelai and Sookie ever get tired of each other? Will John Carter resume working at County General? And so on.
Well, we know that Jerry, George and Kramer kept in touch for at least a year after the series ended. Unless they were sent to separate facilities.
As for MAS*H, I prefer the movie characters (which were much closer to the book’s characters) to the ones that ended the series. In the book, we do have Hawkeye and Duke traveling back to the States together, and it’s implied that while either one could show up at the other’s house anytime, - I think the line was something like, “You could come by in fifty days or in fifty years, and still be welcome” - both knew they’d never see each other again.
Monica & Chandler were too busy being parents, Joey was too busy with his career, everyone got tired of Ross & Rachel’s on-again, off-again shit, and Phoebe wised up and get better “Friends”
Okay, I’ll grant that Joey moved away. There’s no way around that. And Phoebe ALWAYS had other friends; she was the member of the group with the most outside interests (if only because her relationship to the others was more tenuous). But the rest all got together regularly because they were so used to one another and didn’t want to spend holidays with their parents. This lasted for about four years, until one day Monica & Rachel, reliving old times while slightly drunk, remembered how they got their apartment back, proceeded to make out, and then took off for parts unknown rather than send Ross into a murderous rage when he found out.
Frasier moved out to Seattle. IIRC, Sam, Diane and Woody showed up from time to time and Lilith was a reoccuring character. No one ever talked to The Tortellis ever again. Apparently Rebecca Howe still hangs out at Cheers although not as an employee.
That 70s Show - All the kids drifted apart, and reunited at the 10th year reunion. Secretly, they each wondered “How did I stand growing up with such loser friends?” Roseanne - The memoirs that Rosie was writing in the final episode became a big hit book, and made her into an unlikely, blue-collar celebrity. Alas, as in RL, the fame & fortune only exacerbated her egomania & self-delusions. She began spinning more & more preposterous stories that always painted herself as the long-suffering victim of undeserved abuse. Her family, insulted by her lies and the invasion of their privacy, became estranged from her - especially after she ignored them in favor of a string of obnoxious husbands who simply used her to further their own careers. Eventually, Jackie became a surrogate mother figure to Becky & Darlene, while DJ wound up in a sanitarium, hopelessly schizophrenic.
Also on Roseanne, despite their artistic tendencies, Darlene & David became nuclear physicists and maintained a lifelong relationship. To further distance themselves from Roseanne, they changed their names to Leslie Winkle & Leonard Leakey Hofstadter
And Becky divorces Mark, and becomes a doctor at a wacky hospital. Well…one of them does at any rate. The other Becky also dumps Mark, but gets involved with a bunch of white trash hoods, meets a FTM transsexual (pre-op) whom she originally thinks was a biological boy, then gets shot to death.
Well for BJ and Hawkeye, it always seem to me that Hawkeye would have ended up a complete basket case.
Think about all of the minor breakdowns he suffered during the show's run (the ones where Sidney came in a cured him in one session). Then there is the big breakdown he suffered at the end, the one that actually put him in a hospital for a while.
I see Hawkeye returning to civilian life, and after a short time going completely off the deep end. BJ would probably visit him once, and unable to deal with the burned out wreck that had once been his friend, would return to his family, never to see Hawkeye again.
Discounting "After MASH", I think that the other better adjusted character might have seen each other from time to time , and perhaps organized a few reunions, but distance would have kept it from being more than that.
I can’t imagine BJ ever abandoning Hawkeye. I can’t imagine the idea even occurring to him. He’d feel obliged to help him if possible he could even if they WEREN’T friends, and given the depth of their friendship I think he’d keep at it long after doing so became unwise.
Depends. I would say the series ended with Star Trek VI. We don’t know WHAT happened between the trio after then–except that neither of them showed up for the christening of the Enterrprise-C, odd given that McCoy may well have still been in Starfleet.
Shocking suggestion! The still happily own the Dragonfly Inn, and Sookie has had her fifth child. Luke and Lorelai finally got married. Michel bought another chow. Everyone else in town is still there, and still nuts. Emily and Richard are still Emily and Richard. Rory continued as part of the press following Obama’s campaign until he was elected, then got a job in New York.
On a side note, having never watched the show when it was still being broadcast, and watching the entire series on DVD last year, I couldn’t help but notice the Obama references. In her third year at Yale, Rory talks about interviewing Obama when he came to the campus, and then got her first real job as part of the press on his campaign. Considering that the show wound up in spring, 2007, I thought that was quite interesting.
You’re right. I was thinking that the Enterprise awarded Kirk in ST-IV, and used in V & VI, was the B, but it was A. Anybody remember what the Enterprise-A was before she was renamed?