When do betty and daniel get together

No offense. Following a disastrous romance with editor Sofia Reyes Selma Hayek , who only pretended to love him for an article she was writing, Daniel is in full-blown spiral mode. And a more convincing spray tan. Much better. A lesser show might have had them do just that. But Betty knew better. Can we take a moment to appreciate Ana Ortiz? Six episodes later, Daniel is back on another bender, this time inspired by an avalanche of family drama.

Not only has Alexis booted him from the company, but their mother has just confessed to murdering Fey Sommers. Naturally, Betty takes it upon herself to keep Daniel from completely falling apart. When we leave that building, your day is over, do you understand? Punch out! When Betty realized that her platonic work wife helped Wilhelmina screw over Daniel… I felt that betrayal. Not only was this a satisfying culmination of everything that happened thus far, but it really represents the best of Ugly Betty.

Christina has a secret husband! ABC used to be so bright and colorful. Stop the presses! Claire takes the opportunity to tell Betty that she believes Daniel has always had feelings for her, a notion she refuses to even consider before dismissing it entirely. Sorry, Claire!

Or does Daniel merely depend on Betty for structure and direction? Some of the green screen work in Seasons 1 and 2 was straight-up baffling. He remedies his mistake. HE takes the blame for the magazine cover and HE throws himself to the media so that they will stop making fun of her. You can see him, in the sea of photographers at the end of the episode desperately looking for her face and then mouthing "I'm sorry" to her.

Daniel Meade would do anything to protect Betty Suarez, and that is just the truth. He will stop people from making fun of her. He will punch people who treat her like crap. He will sacrifice his own wants and desires so that she can walk away from a scandal unscatched. He genuinely loves her and it's not even until later on that Daniel realizes all that he does for Betty without a second thought?

It's THAT second nature to him. That's love. The average model fashion show. In "Zero Worship," Betty desperately tries to convince Daniel to use real models in fashion week -- women who are all shapes and sizes, who aren't super skinny or conventionally attractive.

And when he fails to deliver because Alexis wields power above him at the magazine, Betty is disappointed, not just in him but in the idea that life could somehow be better for girls then than they were for her. There's a heartbreaking little story that Betty tells Daniel earlier in the episode about how she used to wear an oversized t-shirt to the pool because she was so self-conscious about her body.

And she would get made of fun of for wearing it, too. So when Daniel tells Betty that he cannot feature normal models in his fashion show, the young woman asks whether or not he even cared about the show to begin with or whether his agreement to do it had more to do with PR for the magazine than anything else. Daniel doesn't immediately respond and when he looks up from his desk at Betty, he sees the girl she once was in that oversized t-shirt. And he cries.

I think that's one of the most powerful things about "Zero Worship," to be honest: that Daniel cries because he doesn't see Betty as the assistant who got the job at MODE, but as the young girl who still hates what she sees when she looks in the mirror and still hurts because people don't think she's beautiful. THAT is what Daniel needed to be motivated to care about the show. He needed to see what life had been like -- what it is still like -- for Betty and girls like her so that he could be part of a change and ensure that women like Betty didn't grow up thinking they were ugly, but grew up believing they were beautiful.

Daniel has always cared about protecting Betty but I think the entire fashion show was a way for him to understand her and to try to make the world better for girls who would grow up to BE her. And he literally puts on the fashion show for her. Like, he says so when he delivers an invitation to her door and if your heart didn't grow three sizes at THAT moment, then maybe it did when Betty walked down the runway and Daniel cheered or when they linked arms on the catwalk after the show ended.

Bradford's final words to Betty. I need you to do something for me. Take care of Daniel. I won't be here. I had a feeling about you. You're the only one who' s ever been able to keep Daniel on hi s path. He'd be lo st without you. Lest anyone ever forget, Bradford was the person who hired Betty to be Daniel's assistant. And for the longest time, we all -- Betty included -- presumed that he did so in order to keep Daniel from following the same pattern he always did with his assistants the pattern being sleeping with them.

But in "You See Me, I. He didn't know what it was, but he didn't look at her and see someone who was unattractive. He saw someone who had potential and something to give MODE and, more importantly, something to give Daniel. I think it's interesting that we didn't see a whole lot of Bradford and Betty's relationship, but that the most important interaction between them came at the end of his life.

He made Betty promise him that she would take care of Daniel and he did so with such gentleness and understanding. Both Bradford and Claire Meade though the latter to a much greater extent that will be discussed later on both understood how important Betty was to Daniel and how necessary it was for them to have each other in life. And so, Bradford's final words to Betty were instructions -- a request, really. He knew Daniel better than Daniel believed.

He knew that Daniel would be aimless and lost without her. It is such a painful but poignant moment between Bradford and Betty because he knows that he is dying and the final thing he requests is that his children be taken care of. Meade and Betty never had a lot of poignant moments but this one is so important because it exemplifies the fact that EVERYONE in Daniel and Betty's lives recognized their connection and its importance.

And after Bradford passes, Betty ensures that she seeks out Alexis and Daniel. Betty comforts him in the same way that she will after Molly's passing -- with wordless support and a physical gesture. Bradford's promise exemplified the fact that he recognized how special and important Betty was to Daniel. Moreover, he recognized how much Daniel needed her, how much better he was WITH her, and how strong they were together.

That, my dear readers -- as the kids say -- is "how you OTP. A fact that he states in "Hello Goodbye," actually, and I am so mad that we never see Betty's full reaction to that statement and the rest of their conversation.

Daniel needs Betty. He truly and desperately needs her and so every time there is an opportunity for her to leave, he expresses how much he wants her to stay. He tells her that he's biased and that he cannot be at MODE without her.

Let me just pause to note that Daniel never connected the dots -- the idea that what he's felt for Betty for a long time has been LOVE -- before Hilda's wedding. They know that these two people are partners, that they are so intimately connected that it's almost as if they function as one unit sometimes. And it utterly terrifies Daniel to think that he could lose Betty, that she would no longer be a part of him and his life, that he tries to get her to stay, even in "Hello Goodbye.

And so Claire -- lovely and wonderful Claire -- asks if he is going to talk to her before she leaves; if he's willing to tell her how much she means to him and how much he cares about her. Because that would be the fulfillment of the trope, right? If Daniel finally came to the realization that he loved Betty and ran to the party to tell her how he felt about her.

The end. But I love that Ugly Betty frequently subverted tropes, especially those involving romance, and instead allowed Daniel's heartbreaking "I think I need to let her go" be a moment of selflessness painful selflessness, but selflessness no less. He knew, at that point, that he was in love with her. And he always told her how he couldn't live without her and couldn't be at MODE without her.

This would have been his trope-fulfilling moment -- the happy ending. But instead, Daniel Meade was completely selfless, realizing that it was more important for Betty to leave and embark on her own adventures than to stay because of HIM. He wasn't going to be the one to stand between her and her future -- he couldn't do that to her.

He couldn't be the reason that she stayed and in this moment, you can just tell how much he wants to talk to her, but how much he knows he needs to finally let her have a chance at happiness, even if it hurts him in the process. Claire Meade was such an interesting and complex character. Unlike Wilhelmina who merely schemed for the sake of scheming and undermining often, Claire's schemes and plans were usually enacted to take care of her family -- and she would do anything in the world to protect them.

What's really great, too, is that Betty became like family to Claire almost immediately. Their relationship grew throughout the course of the seasons and it was beautiful to see Betty confide in Claire and Claire love and support Betty like a daughter. Bradford and Alexis always knew to an extent how important Betty was to Daniel but I think Claire is the only one in the family who knew exactly HOW much Betty meant to him.

And throughout the series, you could tell that she was rooting for Daniel to figure out how he felt about her. Daniel and Betty both brush her off, but the woman knows, y'all. I think that she's watched their relationship evolve and have watched how often Daniel protects Betty and how much Betty has grown as a person while still remaining true to herself.

And I think that she knows. Claire watched their relationship unfold and during "Hello Goodbye," she tells Betty that losing her is difficult for Daniel -- more difficult because, as the woman insinuates, he has feelings for her. It's not just about losing an assistant or losing a friend and Claire knows that. It's not even about losing a best friend. It's about losing the woman that Daniel has been slowly falling in love with. And for Betty? For Betty, it's about losing her other half.

Claire Meade knows this better than anyone because she's been able to watch their relationship grow and evolve. Truthfully, Claire has always been so supportive of and drawn to Betty because she sees her goodness and her honesty and how she makes Daniel's life better. Betty gets her braces off. Contact: info dkoding.

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