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I wandered into the Danny Pink tag and as I suspected, there’s a lot of hate there. (Same at GB.) And I do know that there are reasons to dislike Danny – he accidentally killed a child, after all. But the fact that he has reasons to geniunely dislike him is sort of…why I like him? He’s careless (or he was) and he’s socially awkward and inflexible and he might well have been lying to Clara as much as she was lying to him (depending on whether she knew about the dead child or not), which also makes him a hypocrite, and…

…he’s just so damn interesting, alright? Because he’s also caring and charismatic and tormented over his actions, and good with kids and a natural leader and he obviously really loved Clara. (I don’t think their relationship would have lasted without both of them making serious changes, however. Which just makes it sadder.) I’m so sad to see him go, I loved him to bits, and I really want to see lots of meta about him.