I think Stan is the one trying to work things out and Rachel is just taking the path of least resistance. I agree she should have just flat out told Stan she wasn't interested in saving the marriage.
Danny didn't know Steve planned to break into the governor's mansion that night. He thought he'd successfully talked Steve into staying home and thinking things through so they could attack the case the smart way in the morning. Granted, Danny should have known better (has he met Steve?), but he was distracted by trying to juggle two crises at once.
Everybody in the episode did some pretty stupid things, but Danny is the only one getting demonized because he was the only one whose stupid knocked everyone's slash goggles askew. Personally I find it best not to confuse what I see through my slash goggles with canon. Steve and Danny will live happily ever after in my head even if they both get married (to other people) and have a bazillion children on screen. As long as the bromance is there, I'm good. And yes, I'm disappointed that the Danny/Rachel stuff on screen now means that everyone is going to spend the summer writing "fix-its" instead of schmoopy slash fic.
For me, it wasn't so much the pace of this episode specifically as the setting up Subplot A in one episode and ignoring it, setting up Subplot B a couple of episodes later and ignoring it, setting up Subplot C a little later yet and ignoring it, and so on.
Ah. I've spent 6 years getting broken in by Supernatural, so I'm used to that by now.
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Date: 2011-05-20 11:22 pm (UTC)From:Danny didn't know Steve planned to break into the governor's mansion that night. He thought he'd successfully talked Steve into staying home and thinking things through so they could attack the case the smart way in the morning. Granted, Danny should have known better (has he met Steve?), but he was distracted by trying to juggle two crises at once.
Everybody in the episode did some pretty stupid things, but Danny is the only one getting demonized because he was the only one whose stupid knocked everyone's slash goggles askew. Personally I find it best not to confuse what I see through my slash goggles with canon. Steve and Danny will live happily ever after in my head even if they both get married (to other people) and have a bazillion children on screen. As long as the bromance is there, I'm good. And yes, I'm disappointed that the Danny/Rachel stuff on screen now means that everyone is going to spend the summer writing "fix-its" instead of schmoopy slash fic.
For me, it wasn't so much the pace of this episode specifically as the setting up Subplot A in one episode and ignoring it, setting up Subplot B a couple of episodes later and ignoring it, setting up Subplot C a little later yet and ignoring it, and so on.
Ah. I've spent 6 years getting broken in by Supernatural, so I'm used to that by now.
Sorry if I'm over-analyzing.
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