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Quiet Country Weekend
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| Fanfiction | |
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| Title: | Quiet Country Weekend |
| Author(s): | Terri Beckett and Chris Power |
| Date(s): | 1981 |
| Length: | |
| Genre(s): | |
| Fandom(s): | Starsky & Hutch |
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Quiet Country Weekend is a Starsky & Hutch story by by Terri Beckett and Chris Power .
It was printed in 10-13 #2.
Reactions and Reviews
1982
Heavyweight of the zine is the editors' "Quiet Country Weekend." Beckett and Power always have a fresh and enjoyable insight into the characters, and a noticeable balance about the way they use them. In this tale of S&H's early partnership, the authors deal with honest, normal irritation without going overboard; they point up the competitive angle of S&H's relationship without making it into a war. The story itself is jam-packed with plot twists: our boys ferry a baddy toward Phoenix, never listening to the guy's claim he was set up and even now the Really Bad Guys want to kill him. He escapes; they go after him, and guess who they run into. Aside from some nickname etymology that sounds awfully strained ("Scarlett" from "Kirov"), the people are fully fleshed and interesting. Good stuff. [1]
"A Quiet Country Weekend" is action-adventure that does work. S&H are assigned to ferry a baddy from LA to Phoenix at the expense of their vacation, but various alarums and excursions along the way. Chris and Terri are natural story-tellers; the ability to develop a plot and spin it to its natural conclusion is one of their principal strengths. So, too, is the creation of interesting original characters. Kirov is a person, not a prop, a crook with a heart of — well, let's settle for copper — whose basic decency wins out in the end. Starsky and Hutch themselves start out a bit rough, with Curly behaving in an uncharacteristic and grossly immature fashion. Once the story is underway, though, they settle into the near-familiar personae of an S&H who might very plausibly preceded the men we saw in the pilot. The heavies fare less well, as reincarnations of the Cagney-Robinson thugs who populate late-late-show gangster movies. These authors do their best work when they're dealing with a individual villain whose motives are rooted in personality rather than circumstance — they've limited their own scope, here. The piece could also have used a more careful de-Brit, for sociology as well as language. Nonetheless, its lack of pretension lets it work as entertainment, and there are a couple of neat little in-jokes for the sharp of eye and ear.[2]