Episode Notes: Starsky & Hutch "Pilot"

[sara_merry99]

New show, new fandom, first episode of a whole new series!

Well, okay, new in a very broad sense of term. :)

I remember clearly watching Starsky & Hutch with my mother when I was little kid. I was seven when the show started airing. At age seven my favorite part of the show was them putting the flashing light on top of the car when they were in

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[luna_61]

OMG I loved this show, love it more with the slashy visions of them, *g*
They just exuded so much love for each other in this show. I remember one episode where Hutch was injected with heroin to the point of addiction and Starsky helped him through the withdrawl. Starsky was so protective.
I bet I know which pic you'll use :: wanders over to look at the shoulder holsters and towel covered bods::
Great pictures. Thank you.

[kimberlyfdr]

love it more with the slashy visions of them

Other fandoms have subtext, our fandom has canon text.

[sara_merry99]

That's the whole truth!!

I was chatting with sassyinkpen, my partner in squee here, and she was telling me that someone she knows uses S&H as the way to explain slash. If the person doesn't get it she just says, "Like Starsky and Hutch" and the light dawns. :)

[kimberlyfdr]

You can mention the show to people who are not slashers or even know what fandom is and they'll immediately go "oh, that show with the gay cops." It's kinda blatant;)

[silver_cyanne]

I've been saying that should be the slogan for S&H- "Your subtext is our canon.)

Great review of the pilot, I love your take on things. Although I cringe every time I see that shot of Hutch landing on the car, because I know what it did to David's back, ugh.

My favorite thing about the pilot is that from the very first time we meet them, the boys are best of friends. And it stays that way all the way through the movie cameo 30 years later.

[sara_merry99]

Yay! Thanks so much for commenting! I'm glad you liked it!

I agree with you aobut how cool it is that they're so close from the very first moment. That checklist scene in Hutch's car really establishes that they're a smoothly functioning unit *very* well. Love that!!

[sara_merry99]

It's hard *not* to have the slashy visions of them, really. I imagine you'd sort of have to blind yourself. Though I gather there are gen fans, so I suppose it's possible. :)