User blog comment:Paul.rea/Teen Wolf News 030514/@comment-24110506-20140306184050/@comment-6383956-20140307175822

How important was his break up to the plot? You're telling me that was essential?

As for what else we know about Danny... is he really an excellent athlete? He's good enough to be first line. So is every other male character (now that Stiles is first line). There's nothing outstanding about his athleticism.

He's loyal to his friend -- his friend who, according to Danny, doesn't make him move because he's not attracted to his girlfriend and who thinks Danny is in love with him. (Ego or not, 9/10 Danny's been seen with Jackson, the gay thing has come up.)

I'll give you that he wears Armani aftershave, but I wouldn't call that character depth by any stretch.

He's good with computers -- where did we learn this? Oh, right, Stiles was manipulating him by dangling shirtless Derek in front of him. And then later, with Jackson, we had that whole "you're not my type" thing and then despite his skill he worked with Matt on that project because he had a crush on him.

He drives a Toyota -- that's called product placement. Literally doesn't tell us anything about the character, especially since most of the vehicles on the show are Toyotas now.

He has a bit of mean streak -- because of revenge on his ex. In fact, this is pretty much the only time he's ever mean. Because of his love life. Nothing else can tick him off? We don't know, do we, because we never get to see past this.

He has a criminal record -- again, this scene could have been about his criminal record but instead it was about how he finds Derek hot.

I'm not saying gay characters need to be shown to be not-so-different and I'm not saying Danny's a bad character, I'm just saying there's nothing groundbreaking going on here but Jeff Davis is touting it as something new, brave, and unique in order to bring in viewers to his show. It's a publicity ploy, it's not a fact.