THE scene. And a rant.
Thanks to a fellow D/B shipper, I bring you THE scene from last night that melted me into a giant puddle of goo:
*dreamy sigh*
Now, this scene had me on such a high, and I just couldn't leave well enough alone, I had to go and look on TWoP to see what the general fandom was saying, because stupid me thought, "HOW could anyone deny their love after that?" Also, I thought no one could hate that episode, because it was AMAZING!!! And what's the first comment in the episode thread? All negatively, followed by a post that said, "WHAT! was that??????? What a waste of time!" Seriously? SERIOUSLY? ARE YOU KIDDING ME? WILL NOTHING SATISFY THESE PEOPLE? I hate that the writers read TWoP. It's filled with negative nellies and bitter B/H and B/G shippers. Luckily, there are a lot more D/B shippers posting there than there used to be, but for every post praising D/B, there's another one more forcefully putting down the ship and Daniel as a character. I still fail to see why people hate Daniel so immensely. He's got such a good heart, and he tires SO HARD to please the people that he loves. And this is bad how? Yes, he's self-absorbed, but so is Betty (and all the other characters on this show). Yes, he sleeps around, but he's grown since s1 and he's finally come to realize that he's ready to be an adult and have a family, but he's still stumbling, he's only human for Pete's sake, and he's still battling self-esteem issues. And Daniel is most definitely not "bland." Good lord, "bland" was Henry. With Henry, what you see is what you get, and he was happy with who he was. With Daniel, there is so much beyond the surface. He feels things intensely but keeps it bottled up inside. He's a lost child looking to be loved by someone. He wants to matter. He wants to be the man that Betty sees when she looks at him. But he gets easily discouraged because he was never taught to fight for things. He was always expected to screw up and it's hard for him to get past that. Gah, there is SO MUCH to Daniel, and he's the most important element in Betty's journey. People may try to insist that he isn't needed, but if he wasn't there, the relationship between Daniel and Betty would be gone, and so would the heart of the show. From day 1 it's been about Daniel and Betty helping each other grow. Their stories parallel each other. They are on the same journey of growth, and you just can't have Betty without Daniel. Not anymore. He's truly the person that makes her whole.
Aside from that, something else people insist on saying is that Daniel and Betty have a "big brother/little sister" vibe. Now, do the people who say this even have a big brother? Because I have two of them, and I tell them NOTHING about my life. NOTHING! I love them to death, but we spend more time trying to out-annoy each other than we do supporting each other. And I consider us to have a good relationship. I bond with my oldest brother through video games and my other brother through mocking the other members of our family. Never would you see a scene like the above. Also, I have trouble seeing the whole "oh they're like brother and sister" unless they've truly grown up together, either in the same household or have been going to school together since kindergarten. So I detest it when people say that about these two. They just met two years ago. And what exactly do people have against best friends falling in love? Isn't your spouse supposed to be your best friend? The person that you want to tell every little random thing to? The person who always knows what you need even when you don't know it yourself? The person that makes you feel whole? Of course, you need people outside of the marriage to confide in in order to keep your sanity, obviously, and both Daniel and Betty have this. So it makes perfect sense to me that these two should end up together. One of these days, they WILL notice that they are everything they want in a life partner, and once they do, they'll start looking at each other differently. I really don't think it would be hard for them to transition into having romantic feelings for each other. And, no matter who flitters in and out of the show, the Daniel/Betty relationship will always remain the constant. Hence why I can't even fathom why people got so angry about Henry and Gio. They were never a sure thing. Do I think Henry could have stayed on as a separate entity from Betty had the show tried? Definitely, and in fact I was hoping for that, but the character got screwed over. But that relationship was never meant to last. Daniel/Betty? That's forever. They will always be #1 for each other.
Click to view*dreamy sigh*
Now, this scene had me on such a high, and I just couldn't leave well enough alone, I had to go and look on TWoP to see what the general fandom was saying, because stupid me thought, "HOW could anyone deny their love after that?" Also, I thought no one could hate that episode, because it was AMAZING!!! And what's the first comment in the episode thread? All negatively, followed by a post that said, "WHAT! was that??????? What a waste of time!" Seriously? SERIOUSLY? ARE YOU KIDDING ME? WILL NOTHING SATISFY THESE PEOPLE? I hate that the writers read TWoP. It's filled with negative nellies and bitter B/H and B/G shippers. Luckily, there are a lot more D/B shippers posting there than there used to be, but for every post praising D/B, there's another one more forcefully putting down the ship and Daniel as a character. I still fail to see why people hate Daniel so immensely. He's got such a good heart, and he tires SO HARD to please the people that he loves. And this is bad how? Yes, he's self-absorbed, but so is Betty (and all the other characters on this show). Yes, he sleeps around, but he's grown since s1 and he's finally come to realize that he's ready to be an adult and have a family, but he's still stumbling, he's only human for Pete's sake, and he's still battling self-esteem issues. And Daniel is most definitely not "bland." Good lord, "bland" was Henry. With Henry, what you see is what you get, and he was happy with who he was. With Daniel, there is so much beyond the surface. He feels things intensely but keeps it bottled up inside. He's a lost child looking to be loved by someone. He wants to matter. He wants to be the man that Betty sees when she looks at him. But he gets easily discouraged because he was never taught to fight for things. He was always expected to screw up and it's hard for him to get past that. Gah, there is SO MUCH to Daniel, and he's the most important element in Betty's journey. People may try to insist that he isn't needed, but if he wasn't there, the relationship between Daniel and Betty would be gone, and so would the heart of the show. From day 1 it's been about Daniel and Betty helping each other grow. Their stories parallel each other. They are on the same journey of growth, and you just can't have Betty without Daniel. Not anymore. He's truly the person that makes her whole.
Aside from that, something else people insist on saying is that Daniel and Betty have a "big brother/little sister" vibe. Now, do the people who say this even have a big brother? Because I have two of them, and I tell them NOTHING about my life. NOTHING! I love them to death, but we spend more time trying to out-annoy each other than we do supporting each other. And I consider us to have a good relationship. I bond with my oldest brother through video games and my other brother through mocking the other members of our family. Never would you see a scene like the above. Also, I have trouble seeing the whole "oh they're like brother and sister" unless they've truly grown up together, either in the same household or have been going to school together since kindergarten. So I detest it when people say that about these two. They just met two years ago. And what exactly do people have against best friends falling in love? Isn't your spouse supposed to be your best friend? The person that you want to tell every little random thing to? The person who always knows what you need even when you don't know it yourself? The person that makes you feel whole? Of course, you need people outside of the marriage to confide in in order to keep your sanity, obviously, and both Daniel and Betty have this. So it makes perfect sense to me that these two should end up together. One of these days, they WILL notice that they are everything they want in a life partner, and once they do, they'll start looking at each other differently. I really don't think it would be hard for them to transition into having romantic feelings for each other. And, no matter who flitters in and out of the show, the Daniel/Betty relationship will always remain the constant. Hence why I can't even fathom why people got so angry about Henry and Gio. They were never a sure thing. Do I think Henry could have stayed on as a separate entity from Betty had the show tried? Definitely, and in fact I was hoping for that, but the character got screwed over. But that relationship was never meant to last. Daniel/Betty? That's forever. They will always be #1 for each other.