‘Blue Bloods’ Fans React to Danny Dating Again — What About Baez?
Sounds like the Blue Bloods episode “Lost Ones” risked losing longtime fans with the introduction of a new love interest for Danny Reagan (Donnie Walhberg).
In that Season 13 episode, which aired on Friday, January 20, the CBS procedural introduced Jessica Pimentel (Orange Is the New Black) as retiring detective Laura Acosta, who ended up on a date with Danny after he helped her get disability pension approved. But that possible love connection frustrated fans who’d been shipping Danny and his work partner, Det. Maria Baez (Marisa Ramirez) ever since he lost his wife, Linda (Amy Carlson), in a helicopter accident.
Jessica Pimentel as Laura Acosta and Abigail Hawk as Abigail Baker on ‘Blue Bloods’ (CBS)
“I’m done with @BlueBloods_CBS if they are pairing Danny with that woman,” one viewer tweeted on Friday night. “He and Baez deserve to be together @DonnieWahlberg.”
(Wahlberg, for his part, replied to that tweet with a crying-laughing emoji. “Maybe this will be them closer? Hmmm,” he wrote.)
“Lol the #BlueBloods writers basically just gave a big screw you to the fans who have been waiting for Danny [and] Baez,” another person wrote on Twitter. “Not impressed. All that history with them, [and] we get a newbie not seen before tonight?”
The following day, a third viewer tweeted, “Baez was there for Danny when Linda died, and we’ve been watching their relationship develop onscreen for LITERAL 10 [years], but in one scene, you’re gonna inform me that this applies to another character we’ve never seen and expect me to just go with it? Yeah, no.”
Other fans, meanwhile, are thinking Danny could at least be dating the medium Maggie Gibson (Callie Thorne), who has been encouraging him to move on from his wife’s death. “It would have made more sense for him to date the [Maggie],” one person tweeted on Saturday, January 21. “But hopefully, by the end of the season, it’s Danny and Baez.”
“I can’t see Danny and Baez, but Maggie, on the other hand…” another fan wrote on Twitter, with Wahlberg replying with a shrugging Memoji.
In any case, Blue Bloods will likely have time to find Danny’s next great love. It doesn’t seem like the show is in danger of cancellation, and Tom Selleck (Frank Reagan) told TV Insider last fall he’d be happy to see Blue Bloods make it to 15 seasons. “I’ve got a mortgage. I’m game!” he quipped.
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I am NOT happy! If not Baez, at least Maggie! Why someone new?
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Bring back his former partner Jackie(Jennifer Esposito), they had amazing chemistry.
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I’m disappointed! I wanted to see Danny and Baez together!
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This show has done something that I hate when shows do: introducing something (or someone) that had never previously existed, as if that person has been (or should have been) familiar to viewers all along. In this episode we suddenly hear about another detective whom Danny has supposedly known and been friendly with for years. In reality, the only time we see him interacting with other detectives, they've been men, and it was usually a kidding/banter-ish interaction.
Why do shows do this? NCIS has done it too, and just recently their "three-way" crossover was based on such a situation, with every major character across three TV shows gathering to celebrate someone they all loved-- and who had never been mentioned once.
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I remember feeling that way when "Family Ties" had a funeral for a friend of Alex P. Keaton's we never saw before especially when showing that "friend" in his dreams!
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In Season 13 Episode 11 -titled: Lost Ones, the fans of the TV show are to believe that Danny has rekindled a romance with a detective from his yesteryears. Come on now people, let’s think this through logically. Seriously, come on now. True fans of Blue Bloods will readily recall that in Season 13 episode 9 - titled: Nothing Sacred, we hear an ex-partner of Detective Danny Reagan asked Danny the following question: “how about we get the band back together”, to which Detective Reagan responded “ no no, no way! I’m very happy with my partner. In fact, I’d say we both have the right women in our lives”. Notice how Danny did not refer to his partner by her rank “Detective Daez”, rather he described her as “the women”. We might want to consider the writers of the TV show wrote the line deliberately as a carefully worded term of endearment to bring attention to the affection Danny feels for Maria Daez, the woman in his life. So no, I'm not buying what the writers are trying to sell me. I’m not for one minute believing it would ever be conceivable that this rekindled romance with Detective Laura Acosta could be real. I believe it’s the writers way to push Maria Daez to open up to Danny expressing her love for him in a real romantic way and she will do exactly that once Maria learns that Danny is dating someone else. Let’s wait and see his reaction to Maria’s confession.
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I think it should be Baez.
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I really don't see any romantic chemistry with Danny and Baez I think they are better together as supportive friends an partners.
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No found of her. His partner is the best choice
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I don’t need every police partnership to end up as a romance, but this date, out of left field, doesn’t fit with Danny’s character.unless it is the beginning in a new phase of his life wherein he begins to look for a romantic partner. This one, however, definitely isn’t it. Just can’t see her at Sunday Dinner.
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I've shipped my fair share of partners on police procedurals. I love Jay/Hailey on Chicago P.D., even now that he's gone. Jamie/Eddie are great, too. I've never understood the Danny/Baez shipping, though. Unlike the other two, I've never seen any hint of romantic feelings between these two. They're good friends and partners. Why do they have to be more?
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I want Danny and Baez together. I agree with the person who said why are they introducing a newbie we haven’t seen until now as Danny’s new love interest? I was not impressed with her at all. Baez all the way.
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I remember that episode of Family Ties. And yeah, this guy was supposedly Alex's best friend but we'd never seen or heard of him. Instead all we got was a weekly dose of Skippy. 😶
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I know I'm in the minority hear but when I watch a suspenseful show I HATE IT when it turns to romance. A little dab will do ya. I'm into the crime drama not the romance drama.
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Please, not Danny & Maria. She can do a lot better than him. He is so obnoxious.
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A Danny-Baez romance will take this show down the same path a Moonlighting. Just say no.
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Baez deserves somebody younger and hotter
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Bring back Linda say she was found on an island. Other shows do it. The cast got along with her and Donny Wahlburg wants her back. It would be great for ratings.
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I'm on team Danny and Maggie. She helped him move on by getting him to take off his wedding ring and it looked like they had a great time at the bar doing karaoke. Plus, they got that whole double-consonant thing going on in their first names. That has got to be a sign.
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what happen to Molly Chavez who i think is a good candidate to date danny but BAEZ should be his primary squeeze not this new comer that just pop out of nowhere with a cheap explanation that she was there when dannys wife died .. it seems she was a rebound person that he apparently had an affair an then it stopped bcuz it was never seen or mentioned until this last episode .. the fact they make her a detective with high commendations they could have picked a more charismatic person for dannys personality .. probably will be short lived bcuz many fans dont like it
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I am thrilled Danny has a interest in a fellow officer, well former officer I'm not a Danny and Biaz fan as far as them dating the partner thing has been done with Jamie and Eddie.. Besides it's a DATE not a marriage
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So ridiculous.
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No l don’t think she’s right for him!
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As for me, this would be a big fat NOOO!!!!!!!
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Seriously. lol
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Make Danny gay!!
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