Know the A-Team dynamics perfectly in five easy steps

Hannibal convinces Face to do something he really don't wanna do

Face is not happy about it

BA, while working on his van, jokes at Face's life choices

Murdock start talking about another dimension of existence and BA start to plot a way to nuke him (but he love him very much)

Hannibal is so pleased seeing his children misbehaving once again

Look how Face genuinely smile at Murdock shenanigans

The A-Team 3x20 'Knights of the road'

Aight, I’ve been self-medicating watching Starsky & Hutch lately and I have thoughts. I used to watch S&H a lot back in highschool and college, it’s a pretty foundational piece of media for me, but I don’t think I’d ever analyzed it?? I always knew these were well written characters, but there is so much to unpack. In buddy media, there are roles you can put the two into. The sunshine one and the grumpy one, the intellectual one and the emotional one, the big one and the small one, etc etc. But S&H just…..side steps all that? You can apply a surface ~veneer~ of those things to Starsky and Hutch, but they are so much more than that, and they trade roles, but not due to inconsistent writing, but due to predictable complexities of personality.

Take their tempers. They’ve each got one, but they express so differently. Starsky is much more prone to wearing his heart on his sleeve – he gets impatient, angry, or upset much quicker than Hutch does, but because of that he’s also much more used to getting a handle on himself. Starsky gets riled, pops off, and then reigns himself in. Or Hutch reigns him in, and Starsky ultimately lets him, because he knows he needs reigning sometimes. His own volatile nature means he has much more practice at controlling that volatility. To a point. Now look at Hutch, Mr. Calm and In Control, but the epitome of still waters running deep. That Hutchinson temper may not flare as often, but when it does, it’s worse. And he is so, so much harder to talk off a cliff than Starsky is. Because he’s the calm one, he’s the collected one, and he knows it and fancies himself being the rock to Starsky’s storm, so when he does go off he will refuse to admit he lost control. He will insist his emotional outbursts are warranted, deserved, he will dig and dig and dig before he admits he was wrong. Starsky is way more likely to lose control temporarily but Hutch is 10x more likely to die on a hill.

And just, I love that?? That’s such an infuriatingly human hypocrisy, it’s so understandable. Neither of them are The Angry One, they’re both good men trying to do good in this world, but they each have limits and blindspots and triggers, they can both crack, but in such different places and with such different expressions.

I had just been hopscotching around hitting some old favorite episodes, but now I have half a mind to do a dedicated rewatch with like, a critical lens on. Give this show the level of analysis I’ve given so many other, much less important things. I know plenty of it will piss me off, the show is over 45 years old for Pete’s sake, but I feel like I’ve just been handed the opportunity to watch something I’ve seen countless hours of with the ability to pretend it’s the first time. And, I might do it?? I really don’t have that kind of time right now, but WHO KNOWS. I am having Thoughts, Opinions, and Feelings about Starsky and Hutch in this Chili’s tonight and I need an outlet dammit.

They mean so much to me your honor

favorite reoccurring characters on star trek: the next generation ↳ dwight schultz as lieutenant reginald barclay

I mean, I’m the guy who writes down things to remember to say when there’s a party. And when I get there, I’ll wind up alone in a corner trying to look comfortable examining a potted plant.

The A-Team 2x23 “Curtain Call”

Murdock sensory overload moodboard

“AAAAAAAAAAAAA! Hi y'all! Howling Mad here in voice only. For this time my body’s split along with my mind. So at the tone leave your name and the message and I’ll get back to you as soon as my shock therapy’s over. Bye now! ”

i know i never put out proper fanart for Spiderverse but rest assured the brain rot is there for y e a r s

Art by Chedil K Marak

how?? just how?