Danny’s performed many favors for fellow cops, so who anticipated his friendship with Acosta to show right into a date?
On Blue Bloods Season 13 Episode 11, it appeared like Danny was serving to Acosta out as a result of he felt responsible that she received damage whereas masking for him after Linda’s loss of life.
That’s typical Danny. Deciding to ask her out on a date — after Sunday night dinner, no much less — wasn’t.
Blue Blood followers have debated Danny’s potential love life since Linda’s loss of life. Some followers ship Danny/Baez, whereas others assume that is a horrible thought and would slightly Danny date Maggie, the psychic performed by Callie Thorne.
It’s effective for Blue Bloods to carry somebody new in for Danny, but it surely’s irritating that he is supposedly recognized Acosta for years, but we have by no means heard of her earlier than.
Frank by no means did both, however that is smart. Danny felt responsible that Acosta received damage masking for him, and if he was interested in her on the time, it was too quickly after Linda’s loss of life to contemplate something new.
But the viewers might have been keyed right into a higher diploma than Frank. We did not must know that Danny had emotions for Acosta, however some interactions between them over time would have been good.
This new relationship had the texture of one thing made up and shoehorned into Danny’s backstory to make it make sense. After Linda died, there was by no means any point out of this Acosta particular person earlier than, and Danny by no means took any on-screen time for bereavement.
That’s partially as a result of Amy Carlson declined to resume her contract, and Blue Bloods Season 8 Episode 1 picked up six months after Linda’s loss of life with none indications beforehand that she was gone.
Thus, any bereavement occurred earlier than we caught up with the now-widowed Danny.
As an apart, I am unable to imagine it is already been 5 years since Linda died! It would not appear to be it has been that lengthy in any respect.
Danny: Laura was there for me when Linda died. That’s all there was to it.
Frank: You know, you, me, and Pop are the identical in quite a lot of methods and we have tried to make quite a lot of issues stick. One factor all of us have in widespread is that all of us misplaced our wives approach too quickly. Me and Pop, we have made our peace with it. But you have been quite a bit youthful than us. Maybe do not observe in our footsteps in that approach.
Five years on, it is smart that Frank would encourage Danny to maneuver on. This is not the primary time he is given Danny recommendation like this; it is solely the primary time Danny has acted on it.
Of course, we do not know but if issues will work out. Danny would possibly date Acosta a number of occasions and determine there’s nothing there, opening the door for a unique romance.
While Frank probed for Danny’s emotions about Acosta, the favor Danny requested for was taken care of off-screen.
Frank’s interactions with Sid and Garett whereas he tries to navigate the politics of his workplace are an enormous a part of Blue Bloods. The solely such scene Frank had this time was a short dialog with Sid, and he spent his time coping with Danny’s potential love life as a substitute of Acosta’s incapacity pension subject.
That’s too dangerous; it could have been attention-grabbing for Frank to go up towards the medical board, and I’d have liked Garrett’s response to this.
At least Danny and Baez had an attention-grabbing case, although it appeared extra like a car for Danny to attach with the sufferer’s son over guilt and loss.
I needed to know extra about this chess hustler that died. He seemed like he was pretty properly off, however he was a part of a historically homeless group.
The ending of the story felt rushed. Danny and Baez came upon off-screen that Damien did not kill Shy and that the person possible overdosed on goal, however there was no actual motive given for his choice to finish suicide.
I get that the purpose was for Danny to advise Eric to not let the guilt eat him alive and to learn these letters his dad had left for him as a substitute. But it felt like there have been quite a lot of free ends right here.
Jamie’s story additionally left quite a bit to be desired.
The story of Jamie attempting to make amends to a man he arrested unfairly might have been nice.
Instead, we received vignettes of Jamie dragging this man throughout city, attempting to offer him second possibilities that he neither needed nor wanted. Liam made it clear he wasn’t occupied with Jamie’s friendship or makes an attempt to assist him, and he stored getting irritated that Jamie stopped him from dropping his mood.
After a bizarre encounter with a bartender who refused to make a Bond martini correctly, Jamie all of a sudden popped up at a storage with Liam, the place some man agreed to rent him although Liam threw a tantrum about needing assist fixing a automotive.
That was all for naught; the storage man by no means appeared once more, and as a substitute, Liam took a random particular person hostage to pressure Jamie to arrest him as a result of he most well-liked the construction of life in jail.
Um… okay. What precisely was the purpose of this weird story?
The concept that some folks cannot operate outdoors of jail, particularly once they’re thrown again into civilian life with no help, might make for a compelling story, however this wasn’t the way in which to do it.
There wasn’t even a coherent story right here. Jamie talked about on the bar that he needed information on Liam’s confederate, Russo, however that received misplaced within the shuffle after Liam virtually received in a combat with a clumsy bartender. Then, it was one other day with out warning, and Jamie was serving to Liam get a job at a storage.
None of it made sense. It was random scenes of Jamie attempting and failing to assist this man.
Erin’s story might even have been stronger.
The ethics of the pastor asking for a quid professional quo weren’t part of this until you depend Erin and Crawford deciding to work collectively so they may carry the man down for providing them each the endorsement as if this have been a weird actuality present.
When all was mentioned and performed, they received justice for the child — and revenge as a result of they all of a sudden uncovered that the pastor was gathering cash for “charity” and utilizing it to line his pockets.
The thought of Crawford and Erin attempting to work collectively as a substitute of towards one another was compelling, but it surely solely received one scene. And what is going to occur to their respective campaigns now that they are not enemies?
What did you assume, Blue Bloods fanatics? Am I too onerous on this episode, or was it one of many weaker installments?
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