Re: Danny/Lindsay #22: I've fallen in love with you...and I can't let
I still have a feeling that they were not in a proper girlfriend/boyfriend relationship in season 4, maybe still just flurting or weren't sure of each other and hadn't had really talked about it (you know what these two are like). I say this because to me Danny is not the type character that would sleep around if he was in a proper relationship with a girl. Or maybe it is a bit of wishful thinking.
I agree that Danny isn't the type of character to sleep around if he was in a relationship. I get the sense he's had his fair share of action in his time but I like to believe he has a certain moral code whereby if he is in a relationship he won't cheat, that's not to say he hasn't had casual affairs with more than one woman at a time though.
However, I don't consider what he did with Rikki as him sleeping around. Yes, it could be that he and Lindsay didn't have clarity in their relationship and were on different pages or were still dancing around the issue. Or, it could be that they'd agreed to keep things casual because they worked together. I'm not sure I believe either of those scenarios though.
Honestly, for me it's far more likely that Danny and Lindsay were dating but that they were both still fairly cautious about it and I'm not sure it was something they would have talked about. I see them as having fallen into things, Lindsay driven by her relief that she had finally closed a chapter of her life that had been affecting her for years. Danny driven by I don't know what, but I do wonder if a part of him had begun to accept that they wouldn't get together and then was possibly thrown by her suddenly wanting him at the end of S3 and him not being sure about it. I'd love to know how her continued rejection of him in S3 has affected how he viewed their 'relationship' in S4.
But, aside from all of that I personally think that Danny was so caught up in his grief/guilt over Ruben and Rikki that he would have done anything to try and repair whatever damage he felt he caused. He felt responsible for Rikki after Ruben died, even more so when she took his gun and he realised that more people could be hurt by what he essentially saw as something that was his fault. I think for those weeks (or however long it was) from when Ruben died to RND his life consisted of work and Rikki and that took up all of his energy. He didn't want to be sidetracked from that because work was his normality and Rikki was the person he could try and absolve himself with. I honestly believe there were problems in the D/L relationship but more than that I think the only way he could deal with his grief was to shut Lindsay out because if he didn't then he couldn't be there for Rikki and therefore couldn't deal with his pain/guilt.
I suspect he detatched himself from anything or anyone who might interfere with his grieving process e.g. Lindsay and Flack. I don't think he's a 'cheater' but I do think on some level he betrayed Lindsay's trust, be it that he shut her out to allow himself to 'grieve' with Rikki because of his guilt, or that what he felt for Lindsay wasn't on the same level as the way she felt about him yet he wasnt clear with her - that fits particularly if you're of the view that Lindsay seemed more into him than he was into her during S4. If tptb were aiming for showing their relationship as being more one sided this season then it's not unreasonable to expect that Danny should have seen that and been more honest about it. I'm not saying I'm right, I'm probably not entirely but that's what I came up with when I joined up the dots.
I do think this is a case of crossed wires, crossed purposes or some sort of wonky communication where each of them has a part to play in what has happened for it to go so wrong.
As for the 'honey' thing in Boo, I've watched it a couple of times and sometimes I hear it, sometimes I don't. I wonder if the times when I do hear it, it's because I'm trying to hear it. He definitely seemed to mumble something but it could have just been a 'hey' or something.
