30 Days of Hogan's Heroes - Day 9

[belphegor1982]

(I’ll probably be a little late tomorrow, as I’m out of town for a couple of days - I'm going to Bordeaux to see a concert of One Night of Queen tonight!! In the meantime, more friendship feels :o)

Day 9 – Favourite scene?

Sergeant Andrew Carter is a very talented chemist and bomb-maker and scarily good at impersonation, but he’s also generally considered a goof and a ditz, prone to absent-mindedness and liable to foul up assignments that are thought to be simple. He has forgotten a camera in the middle of the compound (that means the firing squad), is somehow incapable of remembering the name of the (fictional) English town Leedingham, and his friends don’t hold back mockery, cutting remarks and digs, good-natured or not.

If you think this means they wouldn’t risk their lives for him without batting an eyelid, however, you’d be dead wrong.

In “Carter Turns Traitor”, Hogan has Carter pretend to defect to the Germans in order to learn the location of a secret chemical weapons plant. By the end, Carter has been so successful that the scientists take him with them, back to the plant – which is going to be destroyed shortly. A rescue mission being in order, Hogan and the guys dress as SS to get Carter back. This happens just before they go up the tunnel:

Hogan: This is dangerous. It’s broad daylight, and the area right now is loaded with German troops. I want you to understand, this mission is on a strictly voluntary status.
Kinch: So what, Colonel?
Hogan: Just want to make that plain.
Kinch: Let’s go get Carter, Colonel.
Newkirk: Now, Colonel. Now.
LeBeau: Why are we standing here?
Hogan (smiles): Okay. Let’s go.

It should be pointed out that this has to be one of the most serious conversations in the whole show. They mean it a hundred per cent.

Comments

[ivybramble.livejournal.com]

So. Many. FRIENDSHIP FEELS!!! And you *know* those are my favourite kind - particularly those of the "Insert-Character-Name-Here may be an odd duck but he/she is our odd duck!" variety. :D

[belphegor1982.livejournal.com]

There's very much something like that between Newkirk, Carter and LeBeau, particularly regarding Carter, who certainly is an odd duck. No matter how much the other two will snark and glare at him when he says something odd, they'll stand by him and nobody else is allowed to hurt him in any way :o) (Except for a couple of odd occurrences, where I'm not sure what the scriptwriter was thinking, because it's jarring compared to other episodes :-/ )

[ivybramble.livejournal.com]

At some point my brain went ahead and labelled the dynamic 'The A-Team Phenomenon' but it pops up all over the place. I assume because it's something that so many people can relate to. Goodness knows I'm the *only* person allowed to poke fun at my friends/sister/significant other. XD I so hate it when you have writers (rotating or otherwise) who don't pay attention to existing character dynamics. (I'm looking at you Marvel & DC Comics! You and the people who scripted the WWW reunion movies!!!)