danny pink

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wackd:

madqueenalanna:

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madqueenalanna:

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.

Imagine an interaction between Danny and Courtney

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imaginedwcharacters:

“Courtney, will you behave yourself?” Danny snapped as the fifth wad of paper that day hit his turned back. Teaching could be a real challenge, and Courtney seemed to make it her goal to be the biggest challenge of all.

“I don’t know, will I?” Courtney asked smugly, folding her arms. Danny rolled his eyes, sighing.

“Careful, Courtney!” cried another girl sitting next to her, pigtails wrapped in pink ribbons. She was one of the quieter ones, Danny noted, and he couldn’t quite remember her name yet. One of the many struggles of being a new teacher, he supposed. “I hear he killed someone!”

Courtney’s eyes lit up at that. “Did you really?” she asked enthusiastically.

Slumping against the wall, Danny quietly broke. “Courtney,” he began softly, “could you come outside for a moment?” Taken aback by his grave seriousness, Courtney fell silent, following him into the hallway. The students began to murmur at this, theorizing increasingly macabre possibilities.

Danny closed the door slowly, barely making a click. He blinked a few times, rubbing his eyes. “Courtney, look,” he told her softly, taking deep breaths to hold his shattered self together, “being a new teacher is hard, and…” he trailed off, leaving his deeper issues unspoken.

Nodding at this, Coutney replicated Danny’s sombre tones and told him “I understand.” And, with a slight smile, she added, “I’m a disruptive influence, not a cruel one.”

Danny chuckled, and the two walked back into the classroom, greeting a room of children full of awe and fear. Courtney winked at him as he took his place at the front of the room, a silent promise to not share his unsaid secrets. And from that day on, neither Courtney Woods nor any other student misbehaved in Danny Pink’s classroom again.

Well, at least not when he was looking.

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capalxii:

what’s most baffling to me is when someone is perfectly capable of understanding and acknowledging that the way Moffat writes characterization is to give the audience bits and pieces, implications, allusions that the audience has to pick up on–i mean he’s done this with Amy and Clara both, there are multiple essay length posts about it–but then looks at Danny, sniffs and turns their head and says he’s flat or undeveloped

like he has issues with authority figures, trouble with being even accidentally reminded of what he did (not incidentally these are both things sometimes associated with PTSD), we know he didn’t do weird when he met Clara but changed his mind by the time we got to ItFotN, we know he was a lonely child with few if any friends and no family that could support him, we know that he too tells little lies sometimes (his excuse of family issues in Listen, we know post Dark Water that this was likely untrue), we knew he was very perceptive from the moment we met him, very awkward as well, that he loves kids which makes both his initial failure and ultimate final decision that much more powerful, we knows that he’s the type of person who keeps trusting even when maybe he shouldn’t and we know that he, too, cares for Clara so much that a betrayal wouldn’t change that (this was, incidentally, my favorite parallel between him and the Doctor–as dark as it is, they’re both that lost in love)

and we know that from like half a series of episodes, where he was nearly never the focus, and in some cases only had a few lines. I want him to come back so badly just so we can get more (and no I do not think his story is over, just the one arc), but what’s there is already quite strong tbh

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While screencapping this episode I tried to read some of the messages left at Danny’s memorial, but could only make out the top center one “Dear Mr Pink, I am really sorry. You were the best teacher ever. I’ll miss you and the school. [something something] Sally” and the odd “RIP Mr Pink” here and there. This is where having the episodes in high-def would be handy…

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