https://www.looper.com/944620/why-blue-bloods-fans-have-a-problem-with-danny-in-early-seasons/

Danny's anger issues are tough to swallow

When "Blue Bloods" starts, Danny is the quintessential tough cop. Hard on both criminals and peers and tortured by personal demons, the detective debuts as quite the hothead. But, in the later seasons...he still is, though he's grown in certain ways and even has a developing relationship that some "Blue Bloods" fans can't seem to agree on (https://www.looper.com/927178/blue-bloods-fans-cant-seem-to-agree-on-this-developing-relationship/). Unfortunately, getting through Danny's introductory period can be tough.

In a thread on the r/bluebloods subreddit, u/danahenry1708 (https://www.reddit.com/r/bluebloods/comments/w5f0wn/dannys_anger_issues/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) expressed their frustration with Danny's behavior early on. "I think Danny's anger issues are quite annoying," the user wrote. "He doesn't get ANY consequences for behaving the way he does and it's happening more and more frequently."

While other users agreed that Danny has problems controlling his rage, veteran fans noted that the detective gets better throughout subsequent seasons. "I strongly disliked Danny at the beginning of the show," u/AphroditeRose1 (https://www.reddit.com/r/bluebloods/comments/w5f0wn/comment/ih7k1fc/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) commented. "He was my least favorite character, but I enjoy his character more now. I don't want to spoil anything specific, but he does improve."

Donnie Wahlberg felt Danny's initial prickliness was crucial. In an interview with The 92nd Street Y, New York (https://youtu.be/1IMEMvoYuVU?t=456), the actor spoke about embracing his character's flaws. "I wouldn't have been ready 10 years ago to play it," he said. "Maybe even eight years ago. But when this part came along, I was able to trust what was on the paper and risk the audience not liking me for the better of the show."

Is Danny that Donny guy from Saw II??

He is awesome!! (First I ever saw him was in Saw II)

It's a little bigger than that for me.

It's the paradox of how self righteous he is about the "need" for the abusiveness, coupled with the professed inability of the entire Reagan clan to understand the public's mistrust of police in general.

It's almost like they think the public should be grateful that they are mistreated....in a "this hurts me more than it does you" parental sort of way.

And, if you add to that their preoccupation with their emotional scars over the loss of their beloved "Joe"....it makes you want to cry crocodile tears for them.

And then with the loss of Linda, we are supposed to care for Danny's feelings even more?

Thomas Wilder was a heroic figure in my view, for his knack in being able to hit Danny where he lived.That episode where Wilder snatched Nicky was the best in the entire series, because it threatened to turn the Reagan wrath against one another.

Might be kind of a neat plot twist if they worked in a little "Peyton Place" aspect? Suppose Nicky Reagan-Boyle was to come back to the show and it turns out she had been sent away to a maternity farm to have Thomas Wilder's baby.....

And the kid continually does little things that set Danny off? Little things like hanging his stuffed toys around the wall of his play pen.. convincing Danny that it's a sign of trouble, all the while the rest of the clan assure him he is exaggerating.

I'd like to see how far they might go with such a theme. Might even be spin-off material?

The only time that I am not on Danny's side is during the season two finale when him and Jamie get into it about Joe. When Danny doesn't like what he hears from Jamie after he pretty much makes Jamie come clean about it all, he just loses it all over his kid brother and to me that wasn't fair. To me, if there is a 50/50 chance that you are not going to like whatever it is that you are about to hear, don't go bothering whoever it is that you are interrogating in the first place.

God bless you always!!!

Holly

The only time that I am not on Danny's side is during the season two finale when him and Jamie get into it about Joe. When Danny doesn't like what he hears from Jamie after he pretty much makes Jamie come clean about it all,
God bless you always!!!

Holly

Doesn't it bother you the way he intimidates non-cooperative witnesses? I'm not talking about evasive perpetrators. I'm talking about some guy who maybe worked at a store across the street who maybe doesn't appreciate Danny's Bluster....so Danny turns it up a notch, maybe even shoves the guy around, just to "soften him up" and make them cooperate,

That stuff really offends me when he does it.

^^^ Because of what the detective job entails, I can't blame Danny for the way that he is with certain people while on the job.

God bless you always!!!

Holly

^^^ Because of what the detective job entails, I can't blame Danny for the way that he is with certain people while on the job.

God bless you always!!!

Holly

Well, I respect your right to feel as you do. I guess that I am just not as forgiving as you. :)

^^^ Most of the people that Danny deals with are as dirty as they come even when they are not who Danny is looking for at the end of the day and so I can't blame him for the way that he puts his suspicious attitude on display.

God bless you always!!!

Holly

I would like to meet Danny and tell him he did GOOD in Saw II!!

^^^ Most of the people that Danny deals with are as dirty as they come even when they are not who Danny is looking for at the end of the day and so I can't blame him for the way that he puts his suspicious attitude on display.


Holly

Yeah, there is always that "company you keep" aspect to everyone's personality.

But I have a strong tendency to put myself in other people's shoes.

For example, if I was getting a haircut across the street from a hold up....Danny needs to be grateful for any assistance I might give him.

I don't need him roughing me up, or threatening to brand me as an accomplice, simply because I'm not "coughing up" as quickly as his schedule seems to think I should.

He's got a very poor way of showing appreciation. Not my fault he came back from Iraq as a ticking timebomb.

I realize that it's all scripted, and that the intended audience reaction is that the viewer is supposed to think "Oh, that Danny is my hero, he stuffed that guy's head in a toilet for me" :eyes:

But I just don't see it that way.

^^^ To me, Danny was a hero when he rammed that guy's head into the toilet. That man kidnapped a little girl who was going to slip into a diabetic coma if she wasn't found in time.

God bless you always!!!

Holly

But he also roughs up innocent bystanders who he believes need to "cough up"...that crosses a line in my book. That could be MY head getting rammed, just because he fancies himself a tough guy.


Maybe our personal experiences are just tremendously different? I've been in some pretty close scrapes with cops where I did nothing wrong except be in the wrong place.....And dealing with the cop to prove "I ain't that one yer looking for" was unpleasant enough even with me being just a bystander.

Just (for me) to think what it would be like having to deal with "Commando" Reagan in such a scenario makes me very intolerant of his actions. YMMV

Erin, IMO, is usually right about his tainted ethics.

LOL,...of course, I really can't read your mind either. You might be content to see Danny flush my head too, if he thought that I needed it? :D

But he also roughs up innocent bystanders who he believes need to "cough up"...that crosses a line in my book. That could be MY head getting rammed, just because he fancies himself a tough guy.


Maybe our personal experiences are just tremendously different? I've been in some pretty close scrapes with cops where I did nothing wrong except be in the wrong place.....And dealing with the cop to prove "I ain't that one yer looking for" was unpleasant enough even with me being just a bystander.

Just (for me) to think what it would be like having to deal with "Commando" Reagan in such a scenario makes me very intolerant of his actions. YMMV

Erin, IMO, is usually right about his tainted ethics.
I understand why people get mad about the way that Danny deals with people, but at the end of the day, I can't blame him because anyone who decides to keep quiet is only enabling those who truly are demon possessed which in my opinion only makes them an accessory/accomplice and so why shouldn't the book be thrown at them just as hard if not harder?

God bless you always!!!

Holly

I can't blame him because anyone who decides to keep quiet is only enabling those who truly are demon possessed which in my opinion only makes them an accessory/accomplice and so why shouldn't the book be thrown at them just as hard if not harder?


Holly



Wow.....so much for the 4th amendment...patriot:

Lets try and get Danny here dues!!!!!!

That's what I expect will happen to him eventually. He will become so "popular" that somebody will make a name for themselves, etc

Wow.....so much for the 4th amendment...patriot:
As far as I know, Danny has never ran past such lines. Number one, he doesn't search anything until a warrant is in his possession.

God bless you always!!!

Holly

As far as I know, Danny has never ran past such lines. Number one, he doesn't search anything until a warrant is in his possession.



Holly

You were saying that if a witness failed to cooperate, that made them complicit. I was simply emphasizing that the 4th amendment requires a higher burden of proof.

As far as Danny running past such lines, seems like I'm forever seeing he and his sister butt heads over what he feels as instinct vs what the law actually requires...and there have been a handful of occasions where he proceeds anyway (outside the law) The fact that it's a scripted show so he always turns out to be correct IN SPITE of the laws he broke....is just show biz, I guess?

But hey, you're a nice person, and I don't want to look like a bad guy here. So, let me just say that I have about the same level of appreciation for Danny as does Anthony Abatemarco, and/or Jack Boyle...fair enough? :)

^^^ I don't know about Erin's ex. He did agree to be Danny's defense attorney when Danny got framed during season three.

God bless you always!!!

Holly