Kimmychu (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} csiny_sl) wrote,@ 2008-05-09 18:27:00 |
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| Current mood: |  disappointed |
| Entry tags: | rants_observations, screencaps_review |
Some thoughts post episode 4x19
Do you know what amuses me?
Extreme selective viewing and reading. It's like lying on a steel table having your limbs hacked off one by one while you squeeze your eyes shut and tell yourself you're in Happy Land. Utterly baffling and idiotic.
I tell ya, I've never seen denial running at such ridiculous depths and length of time in my life and yet, there it is, flaunted by fangirls of all ages (the higher the age goes, the more frightening it is, apparently). I pity the writers of CSI:NY a lot these days. It seems they've become so cowardly in writing the hilarious fiasco that is Danny/Lindsay that it's stuck in a permanent rut where Danny seesaws between a Danny who acts like the old Danny before his character assassination and a Danny who's nothing more than a lowly dog who's always the wrong one and needs to grovel and be a total wimpbag.
And this, just for the sake of appeasing a bunch of fangirls who've flamed TPTB simply because they didn't like their obsessive fantasy of Danny being fucked with. Come ON. It's laughable to even deny it has always been about Danny. Lindsay? Who's she? Just a proxy who needs Danny to be her prop even after three whole seasons and still can't stand out as an individual. And ya wanna ask why I think she's useless? Heh.
As for that phone call ... I'll just reiterate what I said in the grading thread for the episode:
I freakin' LOL'ed my head off when I watched that scene. Danny's voice and expression was hilarious! It was as if Carmine figured sounding like a drunk werewolf who had a bloody rotten meal would help reduce the utter lameness of what Danny had to say to Lindsay. What was even more hilarious was his expression when he said what he did. He looked like he just ate something thoroughly disgusting and was doing his damnest to not spit it out. Bwahahahaah!
Well, Carmine, if it had been your intention to distract people with laughter to reduce the lameness and awfulness of that scene, I for one appreciated it!
I have so got to screencap his expression and body stance when he was on the phone with Lindsay. He was all slouchy and, "I don't give a goddamn fuck 'bout anythin' anymore." It was so at odds with the dialogue I was half-wondering if he was just saying what he did because he'd given up on any kind of happiness and resigned himself to whatever he could get, lousy or not.
Now the Danny/Rikki scene, it just made the D/L one mediocre when it came to emotion and depth. I thought it was great that Danny acknowledged them having sex was not actually doing them any good, although I am still speculating if Danny only said it because he figured it would keep Rikki in his life and not drive her away.
Danny: You're moving?
But poor Danny ... Rikki had decided to move, and was technically leaving him without him having a chance at all to say anything about it. :( I don't blame her at all for moving; she had all the rights to do so and it was true that there were too many painful memories.
Rikki:You're a sweet man.
What stood to me here was how Danny's face just fell the instant he realized Rikki was really moving away. He looked teary-eyed to me, and his lips were downturned like he was close to crying. Even Rikki looked a little teary-eyed, especially at the beginning of the scene just before she tells him she's moving away. It was very sweet when she touched his cheek. It was then very sad to see Danny all alone again, sitting at his kitchen counter and staring at Ruben's memorial pamphlet as it rained outside.
Oh no, Danny's not going to forget Rikki and Ruben any time soon, if ever.
faylinn_drake and I were chatting and it occurred to us that there may be a very good reason why Danny's behavior is so odd in the D/L scene. It is very possible TPTB chose to switch the scenes' places. In the D/L scene, Danny's already sitting at the kitchen counter, looking all upset as if his entire world just fell apart. He calls Lindsay up and seriously, he's acting all drunk and I-don't-give-a-shit-about-anything and when he says he misses Lindsay, he even looks disgusted with himself. By the way, at the end of the conversation, Lindsay doesn't go to his apartment to talk to him even though he asked.
Then, in the D/R scene, Danny's back to normal! Not upset or drunk or anything! Then Rikki shows up at the door, and he only gets upset when Rikki tells him she's moving away. At the end of this scene, Danny takes Ruben's pamphlet from his coffee table in front of the couch and then trudges over to the kitchen counter and sits there.
Something's not right with the transition, I tell you. Danny's behavior in the D/L scene would have made complete sense if the D/R scene had come first. Of course, doing that would confirm that Danny only called Lindsay because Rikki had left him and he had nobody else, thus him settling for second best. And of course TPTB had to change the scene placement just to make Danny a mere wussbag who has no idea what the fuck he wants. *roll eyes* What a shame, TPTB. You had a damn good chance to bring an interesting and new dynamic into Danny and AGAIN, you chose to sacrifice it for the sake of a pseudo-relationship that is STILL vague to the point that even its own shippers doesn't give a fuck about it anymore.
Geez.
Anyways, I saved the best for last.
Danny/Flack saved the day. Literally. If Lindsay's being a self-centered brat and punishing Danny all because he wouldn't go to her on her terms and conditions while he's grieving for the death of a child he cared about, and if Rikki had to leave him because there were too many painful memories between them ... then Flack is the one who's stayed by Danny's side, through thick and thin and everything else included.
It is only with Flack that Danny becomes his old self. The energetic, confident, real Danny that we knew so long ago before he became nothing more than a prop for a character who's leeched the life out of him. It's amazing to see how natural he is with Flack.
Just look at these screencaps:
Oh yeah, there's this one too:
This screencap looks like it came straight out of a soap opera scene.
Flack: But ... I thought you wanted this baby! *sniff*
Danny: I do, babe, I do but it can't possibly be my baby because ...
Flack: Why, whhhhyy?
*dramatic pause*
Danny: Because ... I have no balls.
Flack: O.O
Stadium audience: *GASP*
Hahahahah! I love Danny/Flack so much.
A big thank you to
elsiekate for the fantastic screencaps! :D
