Flyings Nice! Another Danny and Sam blog of reblog

Rest in peace to David Warner. The English film, television, and theatre actor will be remembered by Old School Sci Fi fans for his portrayals of Evil in “Time Bandits” (1981), Ed Dillinger, Sark, and the Master Control Program in “Tron” (1982), St. John Talbot in “Star Trek V: The Final Frontier” (1989), Chancellor Gorkon in “Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country” (1991), Gul Madred on “Star Trek: The Next Generation”, and Aldous Gajic on “Babylon 5”.

Sam Manson

“G-ghosts?!” Ah. Some freshman in the back. He’ll learn. 

“Yes, ghosts. I’ve teamed up with the Fentons, our local ghost hunters, to work out some sort of plan for us should a ghost attack, as they are…supposedly professionals.” Lancer pinched the bridge of his nose between his fingers. 

Valerie lightly scoffed in the distance; Sam rolled her eyes. 

“So, if you see a ghost, alert a faculty member immediately. We are working on getting ghost alarms installed, so there will be something similar to a fire alarm you can pull located across the school, but until then, we are going by word of mouth. It is important that you remain calm, and analyze any means of escape. Do not provoke the ghost, do not interact with the ghost. If you can get yourself out of the school, please report to our designated meetup area across the street, but please do not run. Try to keep some sense of organization and control so everyone can get out safely. Don’t leave anyone behind unless it is a last resort. Let an adult handle the rest. Does everyone understand?” 

The students bobbed their heads as they nodded.

“Excellent. Now open your textbooks to page 364 and we’ll get on with our-” The teacher was cut off by a scream out in the hall.

“GHOST!” A kid yelled as he ran down the hallway.

Immediately, all but 4 students in the classroom stood up and began panicking.

“Great Expectations! Remember what I just said!” Lancer warned before falling to the ground as Dash pushed past him, the muscular footballer easily knocking the teacher over in the process.

Kwan started throwing a chair at the window to break it, Paulina screamed and hid behind Star, who seemed to actually be following what Lancer had said. Valerie groaned and ran towards her locker. The trio continued sitting and watching the chaos, Tucker not even glancing up from his PDA. Danny scanned the area, looking for both the ghost and a place to transform into his alter ego. 

Their fellow classmates were stumbling over each other trying to get out of the room. Dash suddenly burst through them all as he returned to the classroom with a baseball bat. “It ran in here! I got it!” 

“Mr. Baxter! Remove yourself from the situation immediately!” Lancer scrambled up and tried taking the bat from the student, who once again easily pushed the teacher to the floor. Screams increased as an ectopus popped its head into the room. 

Danny let out a breath he was holding, seeing the ghost was only a minor threat. “Oh,” he leaned back in his chair. 

“I said I got it!” Dash yelled as he swung the bat at the ghost, the bat easily passing through it. The ghost angrily looked over at its attacker. 

Sam smacked her hand to her forehead and dragged it down her face. 

“Shit!” Dash dropped the bat and ran out of the room. 

“Oh, hell!” Lancer stood and followed him, ignoring his own instructions and leaving the trio in the room alone. Valerie was chasing down a second ectopus outside, blasting it with her gun.

Tucker dug a thermos out of his backpack and passed it to Sam, his eyes not leaving the game he was playing. Sam stood and quietly approached the ghost as it began to pursue Dash and Lancer down the hall. She lifted the uncapped thermos and easily sucked the ghost in, recapping the thermos and tossing it to Danny, who caught it with one hand and placed it in his backpack. 

“Amateurs,” Tucker muttered. Danny chuckled and watched as Sam sat back down and pulled out her iPod. 

“They’re gonna be gone for awhile,” Sam put her headphones on and started blasting Metallica. 

I want to preface this by saying that Sam, as we see in canon, is written/meant to be a passionate activist that cares about the environment, her friends, and who thinks a lot about others. She is not free from being problematic or flawed. That is not what I’m saying at all. I’m writing this because quite honestly? I’m sick of the amount of hate and criticism Sam gets as a character, especially when she is far from being the worst character on the show, or even out of the main trio, to the point that it literally clutters the “Sam Manson” and related such tags. I wanted to take on some of the biggest things I see with Sam’s character that people criticize and either provide an alternate way of thinking, or just…kind of show, given canon evidence, why the critique is just straight up not accurate. And I’m writing this about Sam specifically because I see more criticism about her and her character more than literally every single other character in the show, including villains, combined.

Also: Sam. Is. Fourteen. Please keep that in mind. Keep in mind that Sam is fourteen years old, along with most of the main teenagers we see in the show, though some are fifteen at some point and others are sixteen. 

Another important note: Since the Phandom does NOT CONSIDER PHANTOM PLANET TO BE CANON, I WILL NOT INCLUDE PHANTOM PLANET IN THIS DISCUSSION. DO NOT come at me about this. EVERYBODY IN THIS EPISODE WAS OOC, INCLUDING SAM. You cannot claim an episode is not canon and actively leave it out of all discussion points, fanfiction, art, future fanfics, headcanons, etc, and then bring it in when it suits your argument for this point. It’s either completely gone, or it’s there. I have chosen to exclude it because of how it literally made EVERY CHARACTER OOC AND THE ENTIRE PLOT HAD BAD HOLES AND ISSUES, not just Sam and her entire character, and thus: I feel it’s a very pointless discussion point to bring up.

My last important note. I will not be responding to anybody who comments, replies, or rebuttal posts in general. I am not interested in debating you. This post is meant to be a breakdown and analysis of the common complaints I see for Sam to give a new perspective on what I think the points are not accurate, not an open discussion/debate. This is meant for people who want a fresh, alternative, or a different way of looking at Sam’s character, and not meant for people who seem to be deadset on disliking her no matter what anybody says. If this changes your mind, awesome. If not, oh well. Again, I’m not debating or responding to comments or replies. I’ve heard 90% of your rebuttals and arguments and such already because y’all are constantly posting your stuff in the Sam Manson tag. If you do comment or reply, you are talking into void, because you will not be hearing back from me. We can all co-exist with our opinions, and I hear the negative opinions more than I’d ever care to imagine. Please let me exist with this opinion in peace. Make your own post.  

Now onto the Actual Content

Sam: I was wrong

Danny: I need help

meet me at our usual spot, the secret garden

Okay onto part 3. Since I will not shut about about these two. Ever.

We start with the classic and amazing Frightmare. Because that episode did so much for my ship and it was in and of itself such a great episode. I don't get why season 3 was slept on. It gave us such great content.

Anyway, we'll start off with the dream sequence. And the utter awesomeness of it.

Danny was caught off guard at first. Because come on, even at the back of his mind he'd go... "Wait. I've been dreaming of this for ages, how is it real?" Probably what jarred him awake in the first place.

But it's the way that Sam shows up next to him and he immediately smiles. Smiles! At her! Like the smile was immediate.

That smile should be illegal.

Moving on to her being so damn open about wanting him and being with him that he's taken aback (he's like, 'So onboard, but this is kinda new.')

Then he wakes up and he realizes what the heck just happened and he immediately goes into super hero mode. Putting everything on the back burner while he deals with Nocturne.

Going back to her waking up from dreaming about him and he's there and he knows and she has some idea about what the heck the just happened and then... denial. Denial. Denial.

I mean, look at them. At this point, Danny boy, what's left to be in denial about anyway?

Then there were the knowing looks and inside jokes which just about killed me.

Look at this Marshmellow!

And then the additional, "Can you make room for me?" Like, just kiss already.

Not at Jazz and Tucker being the third wheel in the background. Tucker's like, "This happens a lot, I'm used to it." But Jazz is more, "What's going on here? Something to psychoanalyze when I get home?".

Ending the episode on a high note.

Idiots.

Which reminds me, check out His and Hers by MyAibou on AO3 and Fanfiction. The author showed extra scenes for the episode and they are to die for. I already consider them canon.

Moving onto Claw of the Wild.

Not that great of an episode except for the Danny and Sam moments. Other than that the episode kinda felt forced. Like some of the other season 3 episodes did.

Still solid Amethyst Ocean material.

Exhibit A.

Sammy. What's up with that.

Only these two would find imminent death to be the best time to have a moment. With the, "I can't live without you." Kind of moments. I swear...

And then the... "We don't have to wake them all up, do we?" Cue flirting.

He's all up for spending the night together again, Sam. Maybe you both need it to finally confess.

Ending the episode on THE highest note. Because I will forgive any stilted-ness from the episode for that one final bit of beauty that it gave us at the end. I love. Love. Love that scene.

These two laughing. And this is something I noticed. The sound of both their laughter mixing? It sounded so damn cute and adorable.

And with THE most romantic line I've ever heard. Like, smooth as fuck, Danny boy, smooth as fuck.

–We have our own soundtrack.

–It's perfect.

Uhh, this is the same Danny who got weak kneed around girls, right? Look at him pulling this stuff at the end. It's even more cuter because it's Her! His soulmate!

Damn, I'm crying again.

Sam is adorable with her little wrist ray, you can tell she loves it and is happy to help Danny because now she can actually DO SOMETHING. And you can kinda tell Danny is enjoying her happiness too. Also I just love him grabbing her like that. It’s like the opposite of Fanning the Flames where she has her arms wrapped around Danny’s body as they try to stop Tucker (that episode is a whole ass other conversation) and it’s cute and I love it.

There are also moments in this episode where Danny is just in awe of Sam, like when she reveals she learned Esperanto too and when she shows him how cool and pretty nature is and when she uses the berries to heal Wulf and Danny is just 😍

Danny is also very protective of Sam in this episode. He is about to hella throw hands when Walker suggests putting the electric collar on Sam instead of Danny, because even Walker knows how much Sam means to Danny and how he would do anything for her because he cares for her and her well-being more than his own.

AND THEN MOST IMPORTANTLY

HE PULLS THE CHEESY YAWN AND STRETCH MOVE SO HE CAN MOVE HIS ARM AROUND HER

I know that’s not stares but hhhhh I love that moment so much because it’s adorable and also it further validates Danny being that kind of old school romantic - Sam wearing his letterman jacket in Frightmare, the class ring and needing to ask someone to be his gf even if they’ve already been on dates, and now this classic move.

Also, can we talk about how Sam "revolutionary" Manson just eats all of Danny's old school romance moves up??? You'd expect someone like her to react a little like Valerie and Tucker did with the class ring, seeing them as outdated, but Sam never makes a single negative comment about them. Nope! She even cries tears of joy when Danny gave her the ring--SHE USED IT TO PULL THE OLD "PROMISE ME YOU'LL COME BACK" ROUTINE!!

Like in Mystery Meat. Tucker's right there, but he goes to Sam first.

Or in Ultimate Enemy.

He always checks on her first.

And another thing, when it's just her who needs his help. He's so tender with her. No matter how rough the fight is, he just turns to her all soft and mellow.

Maybe I'm making too much of it, but seeing small glimpses of their relationship in episodes that didn't cater to the romance factor, just goes to show how much these two are meant for one another.

Like, come on. Fright Night.

Parental Bonding. No snark. Just genuine concern and the softest soft boy voice I've ever heard him use.

Do not get me started on Frightmare. The knowing looks and shy glances. Like they were in a world of their own.

And come on, how can we forget the Danny and Sam major episode that wasn't there to further their romance but gave us such gold.

I mean, just look at them for hootenanny's sake! Her arms around his neck. Everything! Not to mention the first thing she does after he catches her from sudden death was to ask HIM how HE was. Like... Sam, you got yo priorities girl.

but i don’t think i’ve ever even read a fic where he watches or mentions football, like you’d think the guy would schedule his whole routine around football 

you’d never see Plasmius in town on the days where the Packers or the Badgers are playing, and he’d be a lot more active after the football season is over 

do you think he’d terrorize the town after a particularly bad loss, or would he just mope around his house for a few days 

YES