January 31, 2021 Is Hutch a gay cowboy? While watching Midnight Cowboy recently, I was struck by the number of similarities between Starsky/Hutch and Ratso Rizzo/Joe Buck. Coincidence? You decide. Categories Random musings/Season 1/Slash Comments: 8
December 19, 2020 Where else did Hutch put his hand? I was watching Shootout the other day — December 17th to be precise, the episode’s 45th anniversary. I really wanted to post an episode review, but that’s gonna take me a while to write, as there’s soooo much to analyze and discuss in that ep. But I started thinkin’ about the lovely scene where Hutch finds Starsky on the floor... Categories Random musings/Season 1/Slash Comments: 4
December 8, 2020 Gay subtext in Lady Blue Okay, can we talk about the fact that Hutch appears to be romancing/seducing Starsky in this episode where Starsky is mourning his dead ex-girlfriend? Categories Random musings/Season 1/Slash Comments: 5
November 24, 2020 Is my story slash? Or not? #NSFW So we often have lively discussions on Facebook about what constitutes a slash story. One of the things we talk about is how does an author decide how their story should be tagged. How do we determine if it’s gen or slash? Is it still slash if it doesn’t contain a sex scene? Categories Fanfiction/NSFW/Random musings/Slash Comments: 5
November 22, 2020 Gen, slash, het, ship – what do they all mean? If you’re new to slash fandom, or fandom in general, you might not know what all the terms mean (I didn’t at first), so here’s a quick primer. Categories Gen/Random musings Comment: 1
November 22, 2020 Were they or weren’t they? Were S&H secretly banging each other during the course of the series? Did they fall in love after the events of Sweet Revenge? Or do you believe that their relationship on the show was platonic and that the only slash going on resides solely in fandom? Categories Random musings/Slash Comments: 2
November 22, 2020 I Sense a Pattern In a lot of scenes, Starsky acts totally nonchalant and plays it cool while Hutch seduces him in plain sight, right under the audience’s (and the censor’s) noses. Categories Random musings/Slash Comments: 2
November 15, 2020 They told us that cops shouldn’t get married For four years, TPTB subtly (and not so subtly) repeatedly told us that cops shouldn’t get married or have kids. So what does that mean for Starsky & Hutch? Categories Random musings/Slash Comments: 0
