Ugly Betty thoughts
Nov. 25th, 2008 02:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jedi_of_urthSo I've moved on to rewatching Ugly Betty (just season 1 & 2, 3 is still pretty fresh) so, thoughts of rewatching.
Let's start with shipping because that always seems a good place to start. It seems like on a week to week basis I tend to let my shipping thoughts not take over, but here they are:
I do ship Betty/Daniel, but that doesn't mean I dislike Betty/Henry because I do in fact find it, well let's say 'so cute it's sick' in honor of it. But although I was sad for Betty (and Henry) that it didn't work out, I wasn't devastated that the show didn't stick with it. It doesn't spark my active shipping, that's reserved for B/D because I think they'd be fascinating finding their way as a couple.
I actually didn't find Gio as annoying this time around though. I still don't like him with Betty, particularly romantically, but I didn't want to reach through the screen and throttle him this time around.
Okay moving on. Somehow I don't think I'd realized before how inferior season 2 was. I still liked several part so fit, but on the whole it's not really as...well done as season 1, season 3 is still being decided, but I think it's getting better. Betty's character arc was more or less completely stifled, which has definitely been readdressed in season 3.
Also Wili became more cartoony in season 2 which didn't help. Don't get me wrong, she was always evil, but got a little repetitive throughout season 2. And I know several of these problems at least partially come back to the writer's strike but in later years people aren't always going to remember that fact and the seasons that we allowed as "sub par" last year with some excuses just aren't going to keep getting excused.
It needs to be said that Claire Meade rocks.
And with that I think I'm having a brain freeze on what to say about this.
Let's start with shipping because that always seems a good place to start. It seems like on a week to week basis I tend to let my shipping thoughts not take over, but here they are:
I do ship Betty/Daniel, but that doesn't mean I dislike Betty/Henry because I do in fact find it, well let's say 'so cute it's sick' in honor of it. But although I was sad for Betty (and Henry) that it didn't work out, I wasn't devastated that the show didn't stick with it. It doesn't spark my active shipping, that's reserved for B/D because I think they'd be fascinating finding their way as a couple.
I actually didn't find Gio as annoying this time around though. I still don't like him with Betty, particularly romantically, but I didn't want to reach through the screen and throttle him this time around.
Okay moving on. Somehow I don't think I'd realized before how inferior season 2 was. I still liked several part so fit, but on the whole it's not really as...well done as season 1, season 3 is still being decided, but I think it's getting better. Betty's character arc was more or less completely stifled, which has definitely been readdressed in season 3.
Also Wili became more cartoony in season 2 which didn't help. Don't get me wrong, she was always evil, but got a little repetitive throughout season 2. And I know several of these problems at least partially come back to the writer's strike but in later years people aren't always going to remember that fact and the seasons that we allowed as "sub par" last year with some excuses just aren't going to keep getting excused.
It needs to be said that Claire Meade rocks.
And with that I think I'm having a brain freeze on what to say about this.
