Bay City Library Interview by Jetwriter
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| Interviews by Fans | |
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| Title: | Bay City Library Interview with Jetwriter |
| Interviewer: | Wolfpup |
| Interviewee: | Jetwriter |
| Date(s): | July 2005 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | Starsky & Hutch |
| External Links: | full interview is here, Archived version |
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In 2005, Jetwriter was interviewed for the Bay City Library. Jetwriter discusses Starsky & Hutch works such as 1976: Shadows and Ghosts.
See List of Starsky & Hutch Fan Interviews.
Some Excerpts
I'm definitely first generation [fan]. A friend and I started watching the show in the '70s and were delighted when reruns started airing again in the late '80s and '90s.
"Starsky vs Hutch". I hate that episode. Everything that made Starsky and Hutch special was missing. Parts were so painful to watch, they were like knives cutting through flesh.
[My favorite character]: that would be Starsky. I'm very curious about his past, his family and his future. I want to know how one person can have such contradictory aspects to his personality, and I want to know what it takes to create someone who can love so deeply and gently yet be capable of sudden, explosive acts of violence. I like his humor, his occasional gullibility and, conversely, his skill as a marksman and his analytical abilities.
My first fanfic story ever was for the original Star Trek series. I don't remember the specifics, but I do recall that I caused Spock an unbelievable amount of pain. He was my favorite character, after all. :-) My first Starsky & Hutch fanfic story was "1975: The Rain." I'd stumbled across BCL and was thrilled by all of the great stories on the site. Reading them made me start to wonder what happened to the characters after the series ended. Once I came up with the end I wanted, I needed to craft a story line to get them there. That meant starting to weave threads as early as 1975.
Sometimes I know what I want them to say; sometimes the guys take control and dictate the prose. Hutch did that with "1976: Shadows & Ghosts."... From what I've been told, readers like the level of trust that the partners feel for each other and they like the shift of power from Hutch to Starsky and back again. Some also like that Dobey emerged as a stronger character than he showed on TV and that a different facet of Huggy's personality started to emerge as well... "Shadows & Ghosts" is my favorite because the guys hijacked that story and made it their own. I thought it would be fairly short, like "The Rain", and I was totally surprised when Hutch said, "Nope. There's more to do." All of the sudden, both he and Starsky began to reveal parts of their pasts and their personalities that I didn't know were there. The story unraveled as though I were watching an episode on TV. I really like that.