Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-4682609-20140210041658/@comment-24204226-20140222052620

SpiVenger wrote: I think Donnie's fear makes more sense than you guys are giving the show credit for. It's basically like Leo: fear of his own failure. Specifically, failure that leads to hurting one of his closest friends. Notice how she brought up mutating her father. Leo was afraid of letting everyone else down, but since he has to face it every day, he was able to face it here. Donnie was afraid of April hating him and still blaming him for what happened to her father. I don't think Donnie was real focused on his own failure. Otherwise, he would have been having the same struggle that Leo was having, i.e., "I let everyone down," ... "I'm a failure," etc.