Oh, yeah. He expected to hear Starsky's gun, maybe Starsky yelling--and there's nothing. Such fear--but the kind where you keep telling yourself it can't be true. All happens in seconds. How long do the assassins shoot at them? Less than thirty seconds?
I haven't timed it, but less, probably. Truly seconds that change their lives. And depending on how you see post SR, possibly the end of their careers.
definitely. and the camera angle is deceiving. If he rounded the hood he'd be at Starsky's feet, even though the angle makes it seem like he's farther away. So he'd come around the hood and be face to face with reality. Starsky still. Blood. Everything.
Oh my, this really is a heartstopper. Just watched the episode again yesterday - it's such an unstoppable force from this moment on, no way to leave it half-watched, hardly even to press pause, and anyway my stupid S4 DVDs are no good for any precision screencapping, so thank you for capturing this moment.
I was watching it the other night, too. And I suddenly noticed his face just before he comes around the car. But it is a blurr and really hard to capture. It is pure pain.
Watching the episode the first time, I remember seeing Hutch shooting, with no sound coming from Starsky and before Hutch rounded the car, I was already thinking, "Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!" It's awful when you know something horrible has happened before you even see the proof. That scene was so well done.
Your prompt idea had me wanting to write about the night I saw this episode for the first time (which I did do, BTW) and so I watched it again before drabbling. And this scene just struck me in a way it hadn't before. I never focused on his face before he rounded the car. I was always focused on it after. I tried to capture it in these stills, but it was very difficult. I wish I had a better computer or player or something to catch the blurry images that speed by so fast.
I remember watching the episode (most probably by myself, but honestly, all I was aware of was the TV.) Now--I'd read articles that said Starsky would die, so my stomach was in a knot. I was so relieved he didn't die--but to this day, I can feel the heat of my face. I was flushed with emotion and dread the whole episode.
I spent the time watching this ep the first time, reminding myself to breathe and telling myself that no-way were they going to kill Starsky. then I read in the S&H magazine in the UK that PMG had shot the ending with both possibilities but the studio refused it. Second time, I was mesmerised by the camera work and directing angles...especially that moment as the camera approached Dobey 'through' Huggy's picnic basket.
Then I got the amazing chance to say to PMG 'he was dead' and here first hand how the 'honchos' had nixed killing Starsky. We agreed that sad as it would have been, it would have made sense. Now I wish I'd asked him what he thought Hutch would have done if Starsky died.
Oh my gosh, I cannot even imagine what Hutch would have done. Sometimes I wonder why they had Hutch away from the hospital when Starsky flatlined. I mean, why would Hutch leave knowing that Starsky could die at any moment. But I realize, if Hutch was standing there with Dobey and Huggy, the pain would have been too intense. How could he have survived watching Starsky die?
I think the reason they had Hutch away was to let Starsky die as Starsky may have thought Hutch didn't survive as he didn't feel Hutch around him at the hospital (That's what I wrote in my story, undying love), and then to have him come back as Hutch enters the ward. To show their hearts beat and keeps on beating because of each other.
God! If Starsky died it would've been horrible. No way I would've survived that. I didn't write any for the prompt but S&H made me believe in true love and friendship and that's what helped me survive my childhood/teen years. The show and the guys made an impact as no one has ever done.
I guess these boys rescued a lot of us as kids!! Their love and frienship, their dedication to each other really touched us in ways we cannot even fully express. You really should do a little drabble about it!!
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then I read in the S&H magazine in the UK that PMG had shot the ending with both possibilities but the studio refused it.
Second time, I was mesmerised by the camera work and directing angles...especially that moment as the camera approached Dobey 'through' Huggy's picnic basket.
Then I got the amazing chance to say to PMG 'he was dead' and here first hand how the 'honchos' had nixed killing Starsky. We agreed that sad as it would have been, it would have made sense. Now I wish I'd asked him what he thought Hutch would have done if Starsky died.
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God! If Starsky died it would've been horrible. No way I would've survived that. I didn't write any for the prompt but S&H made me believe in true love and friendship and that's what helped me survive my childhood/teen years. The show and the guys made an impact as no one has ever done.
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