#PMG also makes rico be needlessly shirtless the same way he does with sonny in prodigal son

[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

#there's a better universe where somehow PMG was the producer of S3 instead of dick wolf #and sonny and rico got to be prime time french kissing homos just like starsky and hutch #miami vice #smuggler's blues #paul michael glaser #PMG also makes rico be needlessly shirtless the same way he does with sonny in prodigal son #i love and appreciate him