Daniel would discover the biological truth when he sees pictures of Claire and Tyler dining together and when he confronts Tyler to leave Claire alone; Claire would finally spill the beans.
Shocked, Daniel begins to avoid talking or even having eye-contact with Tyler and Claire. Realizing that nothing would change, Daniel begins to warm up to Tyler by inviting him to clubs and parties in the city.
In the series finale, he resigns from Mode, thus making Wilhelmina sole Editor-in-Chief, to follow Betty to London where they both start over professionally following their "dreams".
Additionally, it is implied in Daniel's final "Letter from the Editor" that he also chose to follow Betty to London to pursue a romantic relationship with her. Daniel is the second son of magazine publisher Bradford Meade and Claire Meade, born in Sensing Daniel would need help because of his inexperience in the fashion industry, Bradford hired a personal assistant to guide him.
However, due to his son's habit of womanizing, he knew the assistant he chose should be one his son would never be attracted to and chose the fashion-ignorant but bright Betty Suarez. Ugly Betty Wiki Explore.
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Edit source History Talk 0. The two also seem to trust each other and depend on each other a lot making them very close friends as well as coworkers. He respects her a lot and also tries to be in her good books. In the series finale, Daniel becomes aware that he is in love with Betty as he struggles to let her leave to London.
In the end he asks her to have dinner with him. She wants Daniel's job and is determined to make sure, by any means necessary, Daniel and Betty never succeed in the world of fashion. She succeeded in taking everything away from Daniel, including his position as Editor-in-Chief.
Bradford Meade - Daniel's late father and owner of Meade Publications; Despite handing the job to Daniel, Bradford was not sure his son could live up to the challenge. Daniel gained his trust, even though the two had shown signs of a rift in their relationship. The rift was fueled by Wilhelmina and Alexis, but would make peace prior to his passing. Claire Meade - Daniel's mother; Has been in and out of rehab due to her drinking problem.
She has warned Daniel against his womanizing and told him he will end up going the same route as his father when he had the affair with Fey. She later openly admitted to Betty, Daniel, and Bradford, and later turned herself into the police for the murder of Fey Sommers, but was later acquitted. I've talked a lot about how much Daniel needs Betty in his life throughout the post, but I haven't really gotten the chance to talk a lot about why Betty needs Daniel.
Betty takes care of everyone in her life. She is the crutch that everyone relies on. Her family needs her. Her job needs her. Everyone always needs her. And Betty barely has the time to process her own emotions, much less give weight to them and allow herself to feel things. But when she and Daniel have their talk together on the bridge, she confesses her insecurities in regards to Henry and the model who kissed him at the Christmas party. Daniel looks at her honestly in that moment and gently -- really gently -- tells her that she is better than any model.
Much better, he emphasizes. And unlike later on, where Daniel tells Betty that she is beautiful and she doesn't believe him, on the bridge in "In Or Out," you can see Betty smile because she has listened to Daniel make impassioned speeches before and she's heard him give pep talks.
But never directly to her, really. And you can tell that she knows Daniel is sincere and that he means what he says.
I absolutely love how honest these two characters are with each other and how much they genuinely care about one another and each others' feelings. Because you know that when Daniel tells Betty she is much better than any model, he really and truly believes it.
Daniel moves to London to start over with Betty. Series finales are always tricky to write. How can you possibly please everyone in your audience and give each character the closure that they deserve? I have to say though, the series finale of Ugly Betty was such a beautiful send-off to the characters and provided everyone with their own happy ending, even if it wasn't a traditional one.
Betty moved to London and Daniel didn't say goodbye to her. He couldn't. It was too painful and too final, especially considering the fact that he finally realized he was in love with Betty and had been for a long time. But Daniel did what he does best -- he wrote his feelings out in a final letter to the editor and then resigned from MODE. He realized that goodbyes are not always permanent. In fact, he realized that saying goodbye also means saying hello to something new -- to a new adventure and opportunity.
In the final letter that Daniel wrote, he explained that sometimes change means keeping the people you want in your life in a new context. I love that Ugly Betty ended with Daniel and Betty moving to London because in a way, it meant that both of them had the opportunity to start fresh with each other, even after four years spent getting to know one another. Daniel fell in love with her and Betty? Well, Betty still doesn't know that in "Hello Goodbye. A relationship in New York would have been difficult for them.
They wouldn't have been able to have a clean slate. Everyone would have known their history. But in London? In London they had the opportunity to start a new adventure In whatever context they wanted, without everyone knowing their history. And I have to believe that Daniel got the opportunity to tell Betty at dinner either that night or later on in their journey, how much she meant to her. Although, come to think of it Do you think she read the final letter and connected the dots? I kind of hope that it happened that way.
I love that the series ended with Betty as a success, with Daniel choosing to start a new adventure and making the choice to keep her in his life because it wasn't just that he couldn't be at MODE without her which he said before but because what he had told her earlier was true: he couldn't live without her. You guys, it is such a wonderful way to end a series and a hopeful way to begin a new chapter after the show ended. The "you are beautiful" speech. Okay, so there's a really common trope that I'm sure you've seen in television shows and movies like She's All That and it's this trope where an "ugly duckling" character gets a makeover and once they lose their glasses and let their hair down, the male protagonist suddenly sees them as beautiful.
That's what we would anticipate to occur in Ugly Betty. We would presume that Daniel wouldn't see Betty's true beauty until she received a makeover.
In "Crush'd," Betty fawns over her musician neighbor, Jesse. And she goes to a lot of effort to make him feel special and valued, ensuring that he knows how she feels about him. When Jesse tells her that she is beautiful, Betty is ecstatic as you would be.
Unfortunately for Betty, she walks in on Amanda and Jesse kissing. The young woman then realizes that Jesse meant she was beautiful on the inside, not the outside. When Daniel finds Betty crying outside of the party she threw for Jesse, they have a heart-to-heart in which Betty tells Daniel that she's accepted the fact that she will never be like Amanda -- will never be gorgeous and striking and have men attracted to her.
When Daniel tells her that she is beautiful, Betty corrects him and it's one of the most heartbreaking moments on this series because the young woman sadly tells him that she knows she isn't beautiful. Throughout her entire life, Betty has always been the smart one. She's been the nerdy one. But Betty has never been "the pretty one" in her family or her group of friends and it's something that she has just accepted about herself.
It's so utterly gut-wrenching to watch her fight back tears and tell Daniel that she knows who she is -- the ugly duckling -- and that when people tell her that she is beautiful, they mean that she has a good heart and is beautiful on the inside.
But Daniel corrects her. He literally takes her shoulders and forces her to look him in the eye because he needs her to believe what he says and also needs her to know that he isn't lying. Daniel tells her that she is beautiful and it's such a powerful moment because this is Betty wearing braces with her hair slightly frizzy and her old, red glasses. But when Daniel looks at her -- right then -- he sees what Jesse is too dumb to see.
He sees a young woman who is every bit as beautiful as a model. And I think it's so powerful that Ugly Betty doesn't need to make Betty over before he comes to this realization. Daniel has honestly always seen Betty as beautiful.
He's the kind of guy who used to make fun of the girls in oversized t-shirts at the pool. He was the kind of guy who had flings with models because that was easier than committing to a real relationship. But by the time we approach "Crush'd," that's not who Daniel is anymore. He sees women as people and he sees Betty -- all of her: her intelligence and her heart and her passion and her smile -- and he sees her as completely and totally beautiful.
And he tells her that even though she doesn't believe it for herself. And then Daniel draws her into an embrace the mouthed "come here" is really sweet and Betty sinks into the hug.
I'm not sure that she believes at that point that she is beautiful -- it takes a lot more than one encouraging talk from Daniel to change an entire life's worth of self-consciousness -- but I do think it is a start. And I do think that Daniel means exactly what he says.
When you know someone better than they do and when you would do anything in the world to protect them. At Hilda's wedding, Daniel finally has his own revelation in regards to Betty when Hilda gives her speech.
And you can see, in that first GIF, that when Daniel looks at Betty and finally realizes that what he has felt for her all these years is love He cannot help it: it's like everything finally clicked for him.
Ugly Betty , as I noted above, is a show that likes to subvert tropes at every turn. Typically, the woman would realize her love and become extremely awkward around her male love interest. But what's so wonderful about Daniel and Betty's relationship is that it's always been full of love. Daniel has loved Betty for longer than he has realized. He's spent years protecting her at every turn even earlier in the episode with Henry.
He's always been there for her to listen and to support her. He's also been one of the only people to ever be able to see Betty for the beautiful woman she is, behind all of the bold prints and colors. Daniel has been in love with her for years, but had never been able to put a word to the feelings he felt.
And so, when the two dance during the episode and Betty wonders why he is looking at her differently he's just staring at her like she is the most enchanting person in the world , my heart breaks in the best way possible because FINALLY Daniel gets it. And the fact that he does makes him feel so overjoyed because life finally makes sense.
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And yet, curiously, we don't have this happening with Molly. And boo to Daniel for making Betty get Molly flowers. If you don't want to be a rich jerk, order flowers for your girlfriend on your own. I'm not sure any woman wants to find out that her boyfriend's secretary picked out the flowers he sent to her. Seriously, is anyone invested in this storyline?
Other than the fact that I was worried what Connor's punch was going to do to Daniel's pretty face, I couldn't care any less. However, I'm not mad at Connor for punching Daniel.
Daniel deserved it. So there you have it, a mod approved punching. I don't like Molly calling Daniel a rich jerk or that Daniel seems fine with it. And am I the only person who thinks that Molly's hair keeps getting blonder and blonder? It's weird. Am I supposed to think she lightened it for Daniel? It got blonder on vacation? Or did the actress dye it and we're just not supposed to notice? Mainly, I wonder why Connor is so obviously lying to Wilhelmina and why Wilhelmina is accepting it.
There's no way she believes that crap. And if she does, just wait until she does find out. There will be no safe place in the world for Connor to hide.
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