#there's a better universe where somehow PMG was the producer of S3 instead of dick wolf

[mitochondriaandbunnies]

Rewatching Smuggler's Blues for giffing and. Paul Michael Glaser really did say Sonny/Rico 4Life, didn't he

There's a scene in Smuggler's Blues where Sonny is so freaked out and angry about having possibly left Rico in danger that he tries to strangle Glenn Frey, and then he pauses and gets quiet and weird.

He snaps the filter off a cigarette (...yikes) and asks Glenn Frey's character if he lost a lot of "buddies" in Vietnam. Jimmy says yes, and Sonny whispers, almost inaudible, me too.

And then, filmed so the sweat on his cheek looks like a drying tear, he blinks and tells Jimmy that no matter how much loss he's experienced-- that essentially, Tubbs is the one person he can't leave behind, and it's like.

Oh.

That is the exact moment that he realizes that.

We see, on screen, the moment that Sonny, who has up until this point refused to reflect for even half a second on what their partnership is or could be, comes to the sobering realization that he Has Feelings

Considering the next (and final) PMG-directed episode is the one where Sonny and Rico flirt at the airport while the music affirms that they're Home for one another, I think it's a genuine tragedy that they didn't get my best boy Starsky to come back at least once a season to direct an episode

[doesnotloveyou]

i assure you he shed a tear. dj cries by default when he emotes, so that was an angry, despairing little tear.

and even after this scene he trashes the room, which i love that we see that through rico’s eyes. he finds sonny angsting away in the corner and instead of a heartfelt reunion rico just acknowledges that sonny had a rage fit and sonny barely cares. neither man being impressed by the destruction implies it has happened before. rico even sounds like he's either annoyed by sonny's chaos or just relates to it, like "yeah i would have destroyed everything too" (the former inference may be bc of PMT's weak acting)

i actually hate that our rico starts out seeking bloody vengeance for his brother, tries to attack a man implicated in the death of his lover's little sister, and understands why the room is destroyed, BUT suddenly becomes passive, calm, & collected and Sonny is the bastard rage machine. initially they were two sides of the same coin, not day and night

Rewatching Smuggler's Blues for giffing and. Paul Michael Glaser really did say Sonny/Rico 4Life, didn't he

There's a scene in Smuggler's Blues where Sonny is so freaked out and angry about having possibly left Rico in danger that he tries to strangle Glenn Frey, and then he pauses and gets quiet and weird.

He snaps the filter off a cigarette (...yikes) and asks Glenn Frey's character if he lost a lot of "buddies" in Vietnam. Jimmy says yes, and Sonny whispers, almost inaudible, me too.

And then, filmed so the sweat on his cheek looks like a drying tear, he blinks and tells Jimmy that no matter how much loss he's experienced-- that essentially, Tubbs is the one person he can't leave behind, and it's like.

Oh.

That is the exact moment that he realizes that.

We see, on screen, the moment that Sonny, who has up until this point refused to reflect for even half a second on what their partnership is or could be, comes to the sobering realization that he Has Feelings

Considering the next (and final) PMG-directed episode is the one where Sonny and Rico flirt at the airport while the music affirms that they're Home for one another, I think it's a genuine tragedy that they didn't get my best boy Starsky to come back at least once a season to direct an episode