Oh but he’s juuuuust like Mickey, huh? Actually Danny has always reminded me so much of John Watson and in a world where black men are typically represented as violent and strong and angry, having Danny kind of… ashamed to have been a soldier is really interesting. He’s smart, he’s the kindest and most compassionate person on the show by far (and great with kids) and he favors the discipline and self-sacrifice of soldierhood while not pretending that the things he did were valid. He may not like the Doctor and may not like that Clara travels with him but he knows he can’t stop her and wants her to be happy, and just wants her to be honest.
He’s just sooo lovely and important and interesting and anyone who hates him is so wrong and probably lowkey racist. Also he’s hooooot.
I thought that lowkey racist was a pretty harsh thing to say but then again how can you honestly see a young unemployed man who lives in council estate, has a passion for computers/tech and travels with the doctor out of fear of being “the tin dog” and a more mature army vet with trauma from his wartime experience, who become a school teacher and who refuses to travel with the doctor because he thinks there are plenty of wonders on earth and think their characters are interchangeable without the race factor in play?
Yeah, I mean, normally my first thought wouldn’t be “they hate him because he’s black” but no one has ever been able to give me a good reason for disliking him. People were calling him “another Mickey” since he was first CAST, let alone before any episodes with him were even aired, and then the only thing you know about a character is “he’s a black man” and your first response must be “oh he’ll be exactly like the other black man in the show”, that’s… probably kind of racist.
But then, so is only having had two black male leads in fifty-two years.
Actually, Mickey wasn’t unemployed, he was a car mechanic!
But yes to everything else.