Danny's "first love" 10 . 21 . 99
I've been trying to keep quiet on my feelings about this situation, not only Danny/Michelle/T-Bag, but on the reactions from this board, but I can't do it any longer. Thank you Kristi, for bringing up what we discussed last night. Of course I don't think that Danny thinks he's hurting Michelle - I know that he would never intentionally do that. The point is just that - that he didn't think of how this would impact Michelle. This is a man who cheated on her and that "broke her heart". This is a woman who forgave him, but never forgot it. This is a woman who has EXPRESSED her concerns about Theresa in his life. This is a man who flat out said that he should stay away from Theresa, for the very reasons that Michelle stated. To expand on what Kristi and I were discussing last night... what we have here is actually very much in character. Danny has never thought of how Michelle feels about situations. It may be painful to hear, but it's true. Would Michelle even THINK about doing a dance like this with another man - with Jesse? No. Why? Because she KNOWS it would hurt Danny. How does she know this? Because she thinks about how her actions will effect Danny. She simply thinks of them first. I'm personally getting tired of hearing the excuses behind this dance as the whole "Latin heritage thing" and "Danny just wants to have fun" and "He really loves Michelle, the dance meant nothing to him". Exactly, it meant nothing to him, but he didn't STOP to think that it would mean something to his wife, who he came with, who was just out for 2 seconds to get water. How can we rationalize that when not 5 minutes before he didn't want to leave the barstool just because he didn't want his wife to come back and wonder where he's run off to? He didn't want Michelle to worry. And he thinks dancing LIKE THAT in front of a crowd would NOT worry her? The fact is, that Danny was written inconsistently in yesterday's show. As much as he doesn't think about Michelle's feelings before he acts, he has gotten better over the months. Which is another reason that his dance shocked the hell out of me. I know he doesn't give a crap about T-Bag, and if TIIC think that this "shock value" is going to strengthen our faith in their writing, then they're sorely mistaken. All of that being said, the irrational part of me is coming out now.. The part of me that just wanted to kick Danny's ass. The part of me that wants to kick the collective ass of anyone who REMOTELY thinks that any of this was a result of ANYTHING that Michelle did or didn't do. Sorry, this was all Danny, all the way, and the boy deserves one of Krystal's boots inserted firmly into the body cavity of her choice. What is this boy on? As Kristi said, did he learn NOTHING from sleeping with Michelle's best friend? No matter what anyone says, you cannot sway me from the fact that no matter how strong this "new, improved Michelle" is, that this girl is not going through serious flashbacks, picturing Danny with Drew, and now with Theresa. Michelle forgave, but didn't forget. She knows Danny loves her, but he loved her when he slept with Drew too. No matter how secure she is, those visuals have got to be disturbing popping into her head like that. I may be projecting, and some may disagree (big surprise there), but Michelle is not as strong as everyone wants to think she is. She is, I know that. But she has vulnerabilities, just as every character does. What's so beautiful about Manny is the fact that each character is SO strong, except when it comes to the other. What I mean is that there is only one person in their lives who can hurt them as badly as possible - each other. Danny knows Michelle. But I honestly doubt if he realizes the depth of her love for him, or how much his actions effect her. Even now. Ok, and to go off on a whole other branch here.. all of you who said Danny looked "sexy and gorgeous and hot!!!" when he was dancing with T-Bag - what are YOU on??? Danny was at his most ugly, his most disgusting during that dance. He was not sexy, nor was PAS. In fact, I thought PAS looked downright uncomfortable there, very OUT of sync with AN. And in the same breath, some of you said he was just "standing there" with Michelle/Joie. Um.. hate to break it to you, but that's a man in love, in awe, in lust, and in EXISTENCE with his soulmate. PAS looked completely at ease and comfortable in those scenes, and Danny would've done her right there on that dance floor if he could've. Danny is always at his sexiest, at his most beautiful, at his most desirable when he's loving Michelle.. when he expresses that love. But back to Manny and the dance... These two are growing together, and they're learning. They're learning how to live with a partner, how to *be* with them, and I expect stepping stones. I expect stumbling blocks, of course. But this was uncalled for, no matter how much they water it down today. A man, a husband, does NOT, in any circumstance, dance with his EX-GIRLFRIEND, just a day after his wife tells him "no funny stuff" and honestly and sincerely expresses her concerns about this ex-girlfriend trying to steal him. He just DOESN'T do that, and especially not LIKE THAT. Would I have been more upset if it were a slow dance? Hell yeah, I would've. But that point is moot because we have to deal with what's being forced down our throat. The fact of the matter is that they wrote it this way, they directed it this way, and they expect us to buy it? Hook, line, and sinker? Hey idiots! I won't take it. Sorry. PODanny needs to be disposed of quickly. No matter how much he puts T-Bag in her place today, it's still being done by the same people who WROTE the scene today. Make up your minds! Hmmm... I think I'm done. Candy
This is a response to those saying that Theresa becoming Danny's "first love" is no big deal and that by complaining about Danny's past, I was setting a double standard (allowing Michelle to have a past, and not Danny)
This is not a double standard. Michelle, by the sheer fact that she has been on the SF canvas for so long and everyone knows all of her past boyfriends, has never been represented as having any different kind of love life. However, what we HAVE been given, by virtue of dialogue and scenes and actions, has been the information that Michelle is Danny's first love. It was implied, and as such, was inferred. What they're doing now, by this recent statement, is completely obliterate those words, those scenes, as though they don't matter. As if they never happened. This would be akin to having Michelle say tomorrow that Danny was her first boyfriend. That's how WRONG this is. It's not a double standard, it's the standard that we hold the show to because they themselves are responsible for the fans putting them there. I have never had a doubt that Danny had girlfriends in the past - that much was made perfectly clear, and I accept that completely. But when they first turned Theresa into his ex-fiancée and then into his "first love", that's when they started re-writing this character. This isn't about giving Danny A past, it's about giving him this particular past that directly contradicts the information we've been given. I fully expected a colorful past from Danny, a ladies man with a different woman every week. But never expected him to have a "love" before he met Michelle. I would feel safe in saying that most Mannyacs read it the same way. (If not, please let me know why not) That's what made his love for Michelle so special, the fact that none of these MANY women could ever be special enough, could never give him what he truly needed - hope, faith, courage, peace. Something that you get when you're "in love". This is what he achieved when he fell in love with Michelle. To find out that T-Bag was his "first love" is a slap in our face. To the point that he was only saying this to be nice - they could've come up with SO many other things for Danny to say. They did *not* have to write it this way. It's never been a case of whether or not Danny had a right to a past, but this is not his. It's PODanny's. Candy
This was posted in another thread with the same subject matter. What this is response to is someone saying that since Michelle was ok with Danny's past, we should be too.
Just because Michelle accepted it, doesn't mean I'm going to. For heaven's sake, her words were written by the same people who wrote the "first love" crap. Doesn't hold a lot of water with me. And for the record, I never EVER said or thought that Danny and Michelle are not the love of each other's lives or true loves or soulmates or anything... that was never my issue with this scene. Although it may seem like it, I'm not trying to instigate anything, but I just so vehemently disagree with the attitude that this comment should be swept under the proverbial rug and accepted that I feel the need to contribute the other viewpoint in this discussion. Candy
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