I watched "Creatures of the Night" on Spike tonight, and
God how I miss that Danny.
It got me thinking about his character and the way he interacted with Aiden and how great they were together, which of course led me to comparing his interaction with
other characters... *sigh* Why in the hell did Vanessa decide to leave?
But that's not a subject for this thread, so back to Danny.
Played scared shitless must be so hard to do.
Absolutely! :lol: He's standing on a set, trying to act like he's in a life-threatening situation, probably doing multiple takes--that would
not be an easy thing to do. :lol:
For some reason, I doubt Danny was a cop for very long. Maybe something about it didn't agree with him? That would be worth exploring at some point.
Yeah, I'd like to know more about that. Deep down, Danny is such a different person than, say, Flack. I think he's a bit rough and tumble because he
had to be growing up, he'll get in a fight but ultimately that's not the kind of person he is, and it creates conflict within himself. He strikes me as someone who would like to be at peace but the way he jumps around and can rarely seem to just
settle and be calm tells me that, on some instinctive level, he won't let himself do so. Even when he's made good for himself, there's always that sense that it could all come crashing down around his ears.
Unlike Mac and FLack, who tend to see things in black and white, Danny sees the shades of grey in people, I suspect because he's had a rough life himself.
Yes, very true. He can see that people aren't just lumped into 'good' and 'evil,' and it allows him to see that even good people can do bad things. The example with the girl's father in "Super Men" shows that side of him well. I liked the way he expressed his regret for the man losing his daugher, even knowing that he'd killed a young man.
Danny's loss of faith in Louie really has defined his life in a way--I wonder if that comes back to his trust issues?
I really think that's very possible. It might not just be Louie, though. Maybe he could never rely on many people in his life, and Louie was one of the few he
could count on, and that made the betrayal all that much worse. And for him to find out, all these years later, that he didn't know the whole story, surely makes him feel horrible and, knowing Danny, guilty.
But I wonder if Danny really has come to terms with who Louie is yet.
I don't think he has, no. I'm not sure that Danny completely understands
himself at this point, and trying to understand Louie would be even less likely IMO. Of course, he also might try to understand who Louie is with relation to himself, and that's not going to answer any of his questions...
