QUOTE (bayforever @ 3/10/2005, 16:19)
Hi Huggy! It's me again here at the Pits to talk with you and my forum's friends about our guys...
I was thinking...that one of the things that you read more often about "Starsky and Hutch" is that there are so many hurt/comfort scenes... I mean scenes where one of our two heros is hurting (physically or emotionally) and the other one comforts him, providing that comfort, that caring, that love, that only them, best friends and partners, can give to each other.
We can see it very well in one of the most beautiful episodes of the series:
"A coffin for Starsky",
where Hutch comforts Starsky, who is in pain, holding him tight in one of the sweetest gesture I've ever seen:
And we can see it also in "Gillian", in another of the most wonderful, moving scene: Hutch is desperate, and find comfort in Starsky's arms: I've never seen something like this on tv:
I really love hurt/comfort scenes, because in them you can see all the caring that our guys have for each other.
I was wondering, wich are the hurt/comfort scenes in "Starsky & Hutch" that you can remember or that you like most.
And I mean not only those where there is a physical contact, but also those where one comfort the other with words, with a gesture, or maybe also with a joke to ease the pain...
We - just women, really, as I could see in several places- are specially sensitive to love expressions and I think we experienced a great impact with such a scenes like this you have choosed, wich are not few in the show. I donīt know yet if itīs clear the reason is only in their great talent for the dramatic roles or, more than this, their special relationship, which began in the same moment they meet each other. For exemple, in "Gillian", when Paul/St says to D/H that he is the best friend he has in the whole world and hardly can stop the tears, you have the impression he is talking with his "real friend" (David). In the case of David, is the same with his "real" ex, and so itīs such impressive.
I think that most of we -women fan- if not all have a true and high sense of valours that make us so sensitive to this kind of gestures and specially when them are from two young and handsome men. Thatīs natural and very comprensive, but I must say that I never thought it was so general (between women, thatīs right). But the thing really impressive to me is thatīs clear they get make this in a so natural way. They are not only acting with all their dramatic recourses, but they put all their body and soul, which make their work much more than only one acting more. They convert the acting work in a new experience, which is a real love story between each other, on one hand, and in a love story between them and the show spectators, on the other hand -those ones that are opened to receive such a beautiful love experience like they build in the show.
I must say that I have -probably like many women- special care with men love expressions, but we have to admit that itīs not precisely usual to see that, even in our times. Thatīs what I said at the beginning: it seems that only women are able to receive and recognize those things and that is a pain. To me is touching, in a way very difficult to expresse in words, to see a man with a real capacity to expresse feelings, specially without words, and that it isnīt at all because of sex, but in another different sens. Itīs specially touching just because you never wait to see something like that precisely between two young men. So it results that "they have everything": then, what you need more? They revolutionized our vision on masculine sex because they proved what can really do two men that take true care for each other. They gave all their humanity to their characters, and not only for the show, but for the "magic" they discovered or created between their two personalities. It seems that the show meant a real chance to make such a dream come true AND THEY DID IT, with all the consequences.
And after years and years we carry on surprising ourselfs experiencing the same shock everytime we watched them in such situations on the show and we ask ourselfs everytime: "How itīs possible? What a beautiful thing they did and they showed to all who were there to see that great pattern of true friendship and love between two persons! How can these two men show all these love expressions between them?". Two hard young cops who love women like many others but with a very sweet and tender relationship between them both. Thatīs what can surprise us strongly, over the consideration they are like most of men in their relationship with women. The other important thing to considerate is that they are heterosexual and there is no space (even if some people want to think another thing) to believe that this would can be different. Thatīs the other thing that make their relationship surprising and something really difficult to find.
And, of course, how not fall when you are in front those beautiful eyes and smile expressing feelings that over all are REAL AND TRUE? I have weakness for caring and feelings show in a young or old man in all his relationships, but I think for all us that is truly touching when itīs between two heterosexual men because itīs really inusual -so we value it so. They give all that in one moment, in one creation, which make it a great thing.