The way Death in a Different Place is written is INSANE. Let me say, Iâm not usually much of a shipper in the traditional sense. My aro butt prefers to view the boys as a woefully codependent but beautiful next level friendship/chosen family situation.
But Death in a Different Place? BroâŚevery scene reads like Hutch is about to soft launch his own coming out to Starsky. To summarize for those of you who may need a refresher, another (and much older, and married) cop is killed and it quickly becomes apparent he was leading a double life and had ongoing affairs with men.
Starsky struggles with some homophobia, meanwhile Hutch is very quietly accepting about the whole thing. Thereâs a brief moment in the beginning where heâs surprised and even a little defensive, presumably given the fact the guy was married to a woman for 22 years. He says things like âJohn being gay doesnât take away any of the other things he wasâ and, to Starsky, âif heâd come out to you how would you have feltâ with this sense of resignation. Itâs like heâs speaking from experience. Yall can tell me if Iâm delusional but thatâs 100% how it reads to me. Then at the end we have the absolutely iconic scene thatâs been screenshot a billion times and also is, and always will be, insane
Hutch: âStarsky, would you consider that a man who spends seventy-five per cent of his time with another man has got certain tendencies?â
Starsky: âSeventy-five â you mean three-quarters?â
Starsky: âYeah. Sure. Why not. You mean that was the case between John andâŚâ
Hutch: âNo, no, thatâs the case between you and me.â
Hutch: âWell, figure it out. In a five-day week, there are about eighty waking hours, right?â
Hutch: âWe work, eat, and drink about twelve of those hours, right? Thatâs sixty hours a week, seventy-five per cent of the time we spend together and youâre not even a good kisser.â
Starsky: âHow do you know that?â
This isnât even factoring in the significant chunk of off-duty time we know they spend together, so the numberâs higher than 75%. But anyway. Whyâs Hutch out here gentle-parenting Starsky into accepting theyâre basically gay? WHAT the hell was the goal of this dialogue?!
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