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Can we talk about how much trust Starsky has in Hutch? Look at this moment from "The Fix" for example. Poor Hutch is going through horrific withdrawal and desperate for it to end. They work on the streets. They know the score. They know what kind of things situations like this can drive otherwise good people to do.

Still, Starsky doesn't flinch. A quick blink is the extent of his reaction. That's some next level, almost idiotic amounts of trust. This is the fourth episode of season one! They really drove home how special their bond was from the word go, and boy did it ever pay off!

Bonus gif because it's so sweet:

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"Yeah. It would have been the same after six months. I have this subtle way of getting the message across. 'Let's just have a good time and keep it light.' Otherwise it's 'Bye-bye, Hawkeye.' Sometimes I'm a real prince."

This line drives me nuts. You mean you like casual sex and clearly communicate to your partners that you are only interested in casual sex?? And stop sleeping with women who want a more serious relationship because you want different things and aren't compatible?? It would actually be much worse to not go "bye-bye" if you were hooking up with someone who wanted a relationship when you didn't! That would be unfair and leading them on! The problem is the 1980s morality of this episode thinks Hawkeye is bad for having casual sex but he could redeem himself if the right girl convinced him to end his womanizing ways and get married and probably have children. It's not uncommon for someone to enjoy casual sex at one point in their life and later choose to be in a monogamous longterm relationship, but it's not a redemption and they're not more moral than before.

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Also like. Hawkeye thought they were just hooking up while Millie had developed deeper feelings for him. If she chose not to communicate them because she didn't want him to stop sleeping with her, she's the one not being upfront and that's on her. But they had also only gone out twice, it's fairly normal for her not to have told him yet that she was developing feelings for him, especially when he was only looking for a casual relationship and they didn't know each other very well. She only spoke about her feelings in her personal diary, which Mulcahy encouraged Hawkeye to read after her death (which was so questionable). She was probably still figuring them out herself! She died before the issue could ever be resolved. Maybe if she had they would have stopped hooking up because of her feelings for him. Maybe if they'd gotten to known each other better Hawkeye would have developed feelings for her too and they would have dated. I'm not saying that's likely or the right outcome, but Hawkeye has been in serious relationships before, I think it makes sense that learning Millie liked him would make him consider the hypothetical of liking her back, especially because there's no way to ever know. It's also very possible that if Millie had lived she would have just gotten over her feelings. The tragedy is in her death, in the realizing that this very mundane interpersonal situation will go permanently unresolved. In some ways I think it might have hit harder if her death was more war-related than accidentally stepping on a landmine. Still senseless, but a point then about the senselessness of war and how it interferes with every type of human relationship. But instead of that potentially interesting story, the episode is mostly about condemning Hawkeye for enjoying casual sex and not being interested in settling down at that point in his life.