Hee hee, oopsie! I didn't even realize that Flack's
gun was peeking out in that picture.
:lol:
I'd love to see more of Danny and Hawkes' interaction, because I think they have some great chemistry together, just like our dynamic duo here.
Putting the three of them together on one case? *head explodes* :lol:
Anyway, as for the giving-Lindsay-a-ride thing, I agree that all they had to do was add one teensy little line and I wouldn't be so tweaked about it. Just say that you're coming back or something, damnit! Why couldn't the writers see that the fans might be miffed about Danny just
leaving? I'm not so anti Danny/Lindsay that I don't think they should interact at all, and if I'd been involved in an explosion (however minor in comparison to my colleague who's unconscious in the next room), it would be nice if one of my co-workers offered to drive me home (particularly if my car just happened to be a little too close to said explosion and I couldn't drive myself).
But, and that's a big
but, the way that the writers executed that scene was just...
argh! That should have been a moment for the team to bond together and be there for Don, but the way that it came off, Hawkes is nice like he always is (which is a good thing and doesn't bother me because there's no indication of Hawkes and Flack being particularly close), Mac is torn between caring about Don and dwelling on a past event that left some psychological damage (not that I'm saying he shouldn't have his own shit to deal with, of course), Stella seemed more concerned about being there for Mac than for Flack (which, in and of itself doesn't bother me as much because they're supposed to be close friends), and Danny and Lindsay seemed like afterthoughts. It's like the writers remembered that they had to add them in as well, so they just chucked one more ambiguously-romantic bit our way before the end of the season (just when I thought I'd be free of them for a while), and they managed to forget that they themselves established over the course of the previous episodes that Danny and Don were good friends.
Like someone mentioned before (possibly in another thread), Danny and Lindsay could have gone down to the cafeteria for some food, or Danny could have mentioned driving Lindsay home and then going back to his place to shower and change before coming back, but it really seemed like they were just sort of, "right, I've done the minimum amount of give-a-shit required, and now I just want to leave in an ambiguous way so that shippers and non-shippers alike scratch their heads and wonder what in the hell happened."
Seriously, writers, was that the best you could come up with?
Anyway, back to Danny and Flack's friendship.
I read a great fanfic yesterday that explored a possible way for the two of them to have met. It was smutty because it was a slash fic (
), but it made me curious as to how they might have become friends. I wonder if Flack knew anything about Danny's family's possible mob-connections, or if Danny cared that Don's father is an NYPD legend? It makes me curious if they just worked together for a while and then decided to hang out after work, or if they were possibly friends first and then started to work together later...I'm inclined to think that work came first. They just seem so different that I can't imagine them becoming friends otherwise.
(Unless perhaps Don heard his father saying things about Danny's family and started hanging out with him just to piss the old man off.
:lol
