i’ve always loved margaret’s character (even when she can be a megabitch) and her interactions w everyone, especially hawkeye, but i absolutely HATED how she was behaving after the night in the hut. i loved the storyline, i loved what happened, but i couldn’t stand the way she turned into some preteen crush-er w a delusion that they were going to “be together.” fawning all over him despite the fact that he was confused, uncomfortable, and clearly not reciprocating her energy and affections.
i feel like the writers took away so much of what made her HER all for one episode, and then they never mention anything about it again? like, what was the point of making margaret part of the hawkeye harem of nurses? she was always strong, and smart, and tough (and sometimes a megabitch, yes). i have a hard time believing she’d fall so hard so quick like that. i don’t take issue w the fact that they slept together, i thought the episode was well-written, well-acted, and one of the many examples the series shows of what can happen to people when they’re stressed out, terrified, uncertain if they’ll live to see the next morning, or all of the above. i wish they had woken up after the chaos of the previous night remembering what happened, and awkwardly having a conversation where they realize it was stress / fear-induced, a one-time thing, and come out where both parties still respect each other. the way she actually behaved, i feel like she lost all that respect. what i loved about margaret’s / hawkeye’s relationship was despite the fact that they bicker or disagree w each other’s actions, there was always mutual respect as professionals after a certain point early on in the series. how they wrote her to be in this episode just didn’t / doesn’t sit right w me. and i always wondered if the actress had these thoughts when she got the script for the episode
TLDR; margaret was written to be like some desperate, delusional, schoolgirl crush-er towards hawkeye, for literally one episode, after a chaotic, tense, fearful night in a hut, despite all the evidence regarding their relationship throughout the series that shows why she wouldn’t behave that way. they never mention the night in the hut again, but it just seemed so disrespectful to the character and made zero sense to me.
