[ SECRET POST #3089 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3089 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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04. [repeat]


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(Starsky and Hutch, "The Fix")


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[Girls Next Door]


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[Star Wars]


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[Freaks and Geeks]


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11. http://i.imgur.com/ZIfyXSQ.png
[Sense8, OP marked nsfw for image of (used?) strap-on]


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12. [SPOILERS for Dragon Age Inquisition]



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13. [SPOILERS for Game of Thrones]



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14. [SPOILERS for Avengers Age of Ultron]




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15. [SPOILERS for The Wicked + The Divine]



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16. [SPOILERS for Finding Carter]



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17. [WARNING for RL death]

[Dragon Age]


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18. [WARNING for suicide]



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19. [WARNING for rape]


































Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 000 secrets from Secret Submission Post #441.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

05. http://i.imgur.com/0jwr5V6.jpg
(Starsky and Hutch, "The Fix")

[fingalsanteater]

That episode was really fucked up.

Starsky and Hutch can be a very heavy show., when it's not being campy as hell.

IKR???

[(Anonymous)]

It was almost like the whole show is the result of a big tug of war between different forces trying to make into this cynical gritty mean-streets crime drama on one extreme, and a Charlie's Angels/A-Team-type goof-fest on the other. It sometimes feels really weird to think that heavy dark stuff like Vendetta or Pariah or The Fix or Targets or Death in a Different Place is in the same series as some of those gimmicky undercover eps.

[elaminator]

One of the many reasons Starsky and Hutch is so awesome. (ALL the hurt/comfort in this show.)

[intrigueing]

I was pretty surprised too back when I first saw it. It would've been easy for them to go the "so out of his head he doesn't know what he's saying" route, but they didn't. Pretty impressive. I felt similarly in Star Trek TNG, in the episode with Picard and the Cardassians and five lights.

[(Anonymous)]

There. Are. FOUR. LIGHTS!

[(Anonymous)]

A lot of 70s shows were gritty and unromantic, especially the crime shows. The fashion makes the period seem goofier in retrospect than it often really was.

[intrigueing]

That's very true. Look at MASH, for example!

[(Anonymous)]

Same goes for some sitcoms like Good Times and Archie Bunker. They weren't playing around. Archie said whatever he wanted (most of it, really horrible), and Good Times was always dealing with things like poverty with a full black cast of really awesome characters. The Jeffersons...George Jefferson walking all over a white man's back?! Awesome! (I wish I could find that gif of George dancing on that uppity British bellhop's back.)

[(Anonymous)]

huh, really? Can someone elaborate please?

[esteefee]

Hutch's girlfriend has an ex (Forest) who's a mobster. Forest wants his girlfriend back so he has Hutch kidnapped and they hook Hutch on heroin and then hold out so he'll give up her location for the fix. He does. It's a really harrowing episode.

[(Anonymous)]

Starsky and Hutch is a lot less noble of a show than people remember in their nostalgia. That wasn't even the only episode that had one of them doing something that standard "good guys" don't; in the Texas Longhorn, they sort of almost don't stop a vigilante out to avenge his wife, for example. And then that one where Starsky shoots a teenager during a robbery, and someone starts killing cops in revenge. And then that one where they get in trouble for stopping a rapist, thus ruining a larger crime bust.

This show: a little grittier than people remember.

[(Anonymous)]

Don't forget the one where they're basically harassing a drug dealer.

[(Anonymous)]

And the one with the guy who sexually abuses troubled teenage boys and gets them to commit crimes for him, where S and H mostly feel sorry for the really messed up boy who killed his family. And the one where the DA forces them to name their snitch, and said snitch gets murdered, and they quit over it. And the one with the racist cop who unreasonably killed a black guy and said the N-word on-air and gets away with the killing with a slap on the wrist. And the one with the mother who was abusing her young kid and not the father like S and H were both sure of, and it turned out the mother was a victim of parental incest as a child. And the one where Starsky basically kidnaps Hutch when Hutch is accused of murder and they go on the lam (without any proof that Hutch didn't murder said person). And the one where Hutch has a complete weeping screaming physically violent meltdown at Starsky over his girlfriend's death, when that sort of emotion was a complete no-no for male characters. And the entirety of Deckwatch. Etc. It's just mixed with a handful of such goofy episodes that the goofy ones are what people remember.

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly, I have a hard time remembering that many goofy episodes at all! I think it's just being lumped in with "cheesy 70's show" so hard that people don't really remember the specifics. :(

Now, what the show does have a habit of doing is having goofy little scenes at the end of each episode that don't match the tone of the episode. That's the sort of mood whiplash I'm surprised more people don't talk about.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh jesus those tags. Some were great, and I do think some of the goofy ones were nice comic relief, but so many of them were just pointless and distracting from the episode when they could have been used to expand on the episode instead, like in the (great) tag to Iron Mike. I'm particularly thinking about the stupid tags to Deadly Imposter and Hutchinson for Murder One here, where the episodes would've been better if they'd had a tiny ending scene of Starsky and Hutch reflecting on Colby and Vanessa after the action had blown over.

Now that I think of it, I think m*a*s*h had a similar problem sometimes, but at least m*a*s*h was already a wiplash-y comedy. I guess it was network insistence.

[(Anonymous)]

The Ben Stiller remake didn't help.

[garrideb]

I love "The FIx". And I love that it's such an early episode of the show. Once you've watched Hutch suffer through heroin withdrawal in the arms of Starsky, you know that the show will go absolutely anywhere.

Not as disturbing as the episode with the guy abusing teenage boys, though. That episode managed to imply such horrifying things without explicitly stating them... it really got under my skin.

[intrigueing]

Oh yeah, Vendetta was such a fantastic episode. I can't believe they got away with it. It was one of the nastiest (in a good way) TV episodes I'd ever seen, partly because so much feeling was conveyed by just showing how much Hutch absolutely loathes the guy, since they couldn't explicitly state what was going on. And the climax/ending was so completely bleak.