There was no other option aside from just outright killing him lol. He was a severe risk to the crew as proven multiple times, if it wasn't for him, the colony would have been thriving at this point and not starving.
His actions really were profound! I'm currently watching this series, and was just gobsmacked at just how reckless this character was! And even though I actually did feel sorry for him in the end... He was obviously a Very Broken Individual... Any Human Collective who's survival is at risk by ANY one in that collective... Has Every Right to take whatever action they deem necessary, in order to survive! Had they allowed Danny to continue to roam around lose, there's a good chance that the entire collective would have died! Including Danny! Human Beings HAVE to protect themselves from other Human Beings... Who are a danger to others... And themselves... That's why we have prisons and mental institutions... Sure... This might not necessarily be a cure... But it beats the alternative which is to kill them off outright! In order to survive...
I thought that when he started in the show, there’s a really strong resemblance to the Gordo actor (probably not a massive age difference either given the decade hopping this show does) but the guy who played jimmy made no sense genetically to those two, well I thought anyhow, he didn’t seem to resemble either parents and almost looked older then them!
Having not one... But TWO astronaut parents must have been HELL for both brothers. And the fact that this show killed them off, killed Danny off... With the younger one incarcerated I believe, for conspiring with those terrorists!? Damn! This show is definitely FAR darker than I had expected! It actually makes you NOT want to be an astronaut! Star Trek... This is not!!!
@@sdwone I think that's the whole point of the show, focusing on the bright space-faring future ("future") while showing the more complex sides of the people making it happen, which can sometimes be pretty dark.
He was high on pills, had issues, mental health problems and was a bully. But he saved all of their lives back on Hotel Polaris. And more importantly, without him the Hotel would fall apart and Dev would not be able to buy it, turn it into a spaceship and start a space race for Mars.
Mmmm... And I hear that Hitler was a good painter...And a vegetarian who liked certain animals... Namely dogs... And yet... Just because you've done good deeds in the past... Doesn't mean that you will automatically be forgiven if you screw up in the future! I was pro Danny too! At first! Even when Karen took advantage of him... But his actions on Mars were numerous, serious, deadly and unforgivable...
They never should have done that to Danny. Ed caused this mess by bringing him to Mars when NASA grounded him. And when he injured his hand and protocol required him to go back to the mothership, Ed kept him on the planet which allowed him access to the drugs. They both saw how his Dad couldn’t handle the stress when they were stuck on the moon so the same thing would probably happen to him being alone by himself. I think Ed stayed on Mars to punish himself for letting down his best friend.
Agreed. Ed should have had the sense to lock him up in the base. Have him locked up in a quarters. Let him out daily to use the bathroom and shower. Exile to a small tin can on an alien planet was cruel. Too cruel. Worse than solitary confinement in a prison.
I was kind of disappointed to see that they killed him off in a flashback after he was such an integral part of season 3. And so far, his brother is nowhere to be found. Barely referenced in season 4. It's like they gave up on the Gordo kids.
Danielle should have really laid into Ed over this. He was the reason Danny was there, he was the one who ignored everyone telling him Danny was a liability, and thus he was the reason both Danny and everyone he failed died
@@anoniemw.222 Danny flew in with a private corporation not NASA, he was the son of two famous astronauts who died heroically. I could totally see his psych profile getting quietly shelved because the PR of him being one of the first on Mars was just too good.
@@anoniemw.222 they did have a psyych test for him at NASA, and I believe he passed but it was by the skin of his teeth, and so he wasn't put on the flight. It's almost as if the psychologists who administered the tests knew what they were doing... but ahh well, u can always count on Ed to put his gut feeling ahead of the expertise that others have developed over their whole life.
From the looks of it, yes. The suit is intact so he did not depressurize, and its not like the suit is stuck in a hole or something. My guess is this was suicide, he just sat there until his air ran out.
I never understood this part of the show. They rather leave him in some confined coffin to slowly mentally deteriorate rather than just send him back to Earth?
It's not moon, if you want to travel from earth to mars or vice versa both planets must be in certain possitions for the most optimal journey, otherwise it would take years to get anywhere
Not sorry in the slightest. Danielle said to his face that Danny was unstable, and he ignored her and brought him anyway, which led to a bunch of people getting killed
@@Synthonym tbf, the season prior danielle was also constantly arguing with ed about how "she was more qualified", and saying stuff like "they shouldn't let old farts like him in space" and so on Honestly I dont blame ed for ignoring her warnings this whole time
@@wolfsworkshop9095 Rewatch episode 2 of third season. At 42nd minute when they are in a bar Ed had started this. "If this were a level playing field, I would be commanding this mission and you know it." She didn't even respond with anything you said, the only people who said this were Margo to Ed and Daniele's son to Danielle.
@@mofik26 talking about season 2 when she was begging to be the "first black woman to command a mision" For season 3 you're right, but on one hand ed is also right on that note, he is more qualified as a test pilot and they needed someone to land safely on mars, if ed/elios wasn't there the mars 94 mission would have been a complete disaster and they would have had to wait for a recovery ship/supplies from nasa/roscosmos, and the first baby conceived in space would have died killing the mother with it
Gotta say, I hated Danny in Season 3, but they should never have done this to him. They said it was for his own good, but it just ended up being cruel.
@@batalorian7997 they didn't have to exile him out in the middle of a dangerous environment where anything could've happened to him. Isn't locking him in his room enough?
@@J_C_CH did you see the part where his actions got people killed? Why take the chance that he might escape his room and cause more damage and further harm to the crew? He was safe inside the shuttle they exiled him in and they would go back to bring him supplies and check on him. That wasn't just a punishment for him, it was for everyone else's safety
@@batalorian7997 I never said he didn't get anyone killed, with so many people keeping an eye on him 24/7, I don't see how keeping him at the base was gonna be a real problem. I mean come on, it's still a human life at the end of the day. They're on Mars ffs.
@@J_C_CH why do they need to watch over him 24/7? Why risk a chance that someone (including himself) may get injured? They aren't prison guards. He was safe in the area that they kept him in, they were safe from him, and they treated him more than fairly based on his actions. They didn't just let him die, they did supply him with rations and checked on him
As much as we complain about Ed's stupidity in bringing Danny to Mars and ignoring his mental health issues, Danny is the reason they survived, in a twisted way. It was having Gordo’s kid next to him that made reckless Ed abort the dangerous landing, while the rational Danielle CRASHED HER SHIP and stranded both her crew and the Russians...just so she could be “first”. I don’t understand how she ever got another assignment after that. If the hated private company Helios hadn’t been around to save them, Danielle Poole would have gone down in infamy as a reckless astronaut who got two whole spaceship crews killed for personal glory, and possibly ended the Mars program for good. Then to top it off, her own crew members get pregnant and strand the Helios crew as well, just so baby momma can go home in their only intact lunar lander. Dani and Kelly both escaped some serious criticism for this!
@@o.b.carson1338 I don't blame her for landing in 1994; she went when they told her. But I blame Dani for crashing in the middle of a dust storm and destroying her ship beyond repair. She, of all people, should know that you can't always count on the next ship to save you (see: Apollo 23 explosion). Those flashbacks of them starving in the original Happy Valley look pretty grim!
@@batalorian7997 Weren't their regular passenger shuttles between earth and mars though? The staff who were hired by Dev's company who's name I forget And not to mention the time between the end of the previous season and this one, it was a decade at least from memory.
@@batalorian7997they are confusing this revelation as though it happened during “present day” for the season. This was a flashback years before there was regular travel.
@@seba0456 While time has passed, it's not enough. Next mission to rescue them is Sojourner 2, which if I recall will still take months to a full year to get to them, as it requires the proper transfer window to get to Mars, otherwise it won't have enough fuel. And we don't know when this scene takes place, so it's still possible Sojourner 2 hasn't even launched yet, which, by the way, still has to travel to Mars and back. So no, not really.
For real, all I felt when I saw him dead was relief to be honest. I knew it was coming but I’m just glad his death didnt involve the gun and someone else getting hurt
Agreed. I felt this narrative just took a crap on Gordo and Tracy’s story. Their kid was even more of a trainwreck and caused tons of death and despair. Cmon. lol I love the show but why did they make him the crappiest character?
@@bad_pilot13official Danny was already on the edge and she forced him to stay in that tiny capsule with nothing to do and no one to talk to. And the landslide was Ed’s fault for reverting back to his macho, tough-guy attitude and threatening Danny.
@@hambonesmithsonian8085 such as being a screwup that caused his best friend to get in trouble, than he lusted after and had an affair with what would be an aunt or other mother figure to him
