Friday I was reminded of my own sometimes petulant 22-month-old son when Danny refused to even talk things out with Michelle and declared that he couldn't even look at her right then. Give me a break! Adults don't act this way -- children do! That scene in particular seemed forced to me -- Danny's usually complex character was sacrificed (and made unidimensional), in my opinion, to advance the story line and give Danny an excuse for sleeping with Drew.

I hope that the writers realize this kind of emotion without more substantive motivation is not any more interesting than watching TWV try to drum up emotions he obviously doesn't feel.

In response, BettyM had an interesting opposing point of view to offer .... No, you won't catch grief, but I strongly disagree. It's just my humble opinion, but you are making a mistake I think many fans do with Danny -- ever since we've seen his 'sweet' side, some people see him as a normal guy who does normal leading man good guy stuff. He is not!

Danny is not Ozzie, and Michelle is not Harriet! This is a mafia prince who, I repeat, was trained to be and is in blood, steely, a trained killer, perhaps, and certainly ruthless; a passionate man, a man who has been raised in a volatile "blood-simple-don't-tread-on-me" culture, a cobra taught to bite into the heel that stomps it. It ain't pretty, but he isn't Matt Reardon!

As he told Michelle, he put his ass on the line for her. His ass is still on the line for her, and I think many folks have forgotten that at this moment, he is expected to still take care of Michelle! Everyone keeps forgetting what Danny is, due to having seen his sweeter side, as though a man like Danny simply says, "oh gosh, honey bunch, next time you feel like turning me into the F.B.I., my feelings will be hurt, so buy me a tie, instead."

I'm sure Danny resents even Michelle putting him on the spot, and in a situation where he not only almost messed up the people to whom he's responsible; but has to now do something about her! Added to that, a large part of Danny's anger was understandable passion and male ego, a sense that he wishes Michelle would look at him like Jesse, and her indications have been that she finds him unappealing, nay, recoil-worthy.

Some of his anger, was as he said, he knows she feels so contemptible of him, she didn't care. He simply doesn't trust her -- all she's done, for her understandable reasons, is lie, and that was why he said, on the dance floor, "don't tell me you did it, because you love me, because I don't know what I would do to you."

See, he simply thinks she's full of it, when it comes to him! He did not/does not/never did trust her feelings for him; Michelle, understandably uncertain, gave him every indication that she did find him recoil-worthy; so I understand where both [of them] are coming from.

BettyM