Is Ugly contagious?

When you watch the show, you can’t help but to tear up or cry a little bit. Is it because that you felt bad for Betty, or the fact that you can relate to it completely; either you were the ugly one of the whole class or that you picked on the ugly ones?
Ugly Betty launched in the fall of 2006 and ran for four seasons. Wish I could say: It ran for four season STRONG; but I can’t. Apparently, the show struggled with the ratings in season three, and ABC made the executive decision to cancel the show after the fourth season.
The pilot for the show started out with Betty struggling hard to find a job, finally ending up with the job as assistant for the new editor in chief for Mode Magazine. Betty received that job because of Bradford Meade, owner for Meade Publication, who wanted his son to have an assistant that he will not be tempted to sleep with. When Betty found that out, it devastated her, and if that wasn’t bad enough, Daniel (Betty’s boss) tried to sabotage her so she would quit her job. It was her look, her quirkiness, and “unique” style of clothes choice that made America fall in love with America, who was playing the role of Betty Suarez.
But after four seasons, they made “Ugly” Betty into “Pretty” Betty. Maybe more; she became gorgeous and beautiful. Why did they choose the end of season four to do that? Wasn’t the whole point of Betty being ugly was so that it shows “ugly” can be beautiful inside and out? I guess people evolve and eventually they get better at what they do… right?
Then there was Justin. Justin was one of the supporting characters for the show. He started out with the show being really flamboyant. However, at the end of season four, he comes out of the closet. It’s a tough world out there, but why did it take four seasons for them to get Justin to come out? Not to say it’s a bad thing because The Suarez family all support him to the max… to the point where he had a coming out party when he wasn’t even out yet. One reason the writers might have done that is to show that people takes time coming out of the closet. In some cases, they were really trying to channel the fact that Justin himself doesn’t know that he is gay but he can dress really well.
The typical Latino family consists of a really hard working family that really values the sense of family, trying to hold the family together. That was one of the essential thing that the father, Ignacio Suarez, did in the show. Ignacio really was the glue to the family and held onto to the Hispanic culture that they have.
Meade Publication basically tied the whole show together, the high fashion magazines company. The plot around Mode Magazine is so complicated that one must watch all four season to get the story line. Some of the major characters in that show involve Wilhelmina Slater, Marc St. James, Amanda Tanen and many more. All of them at one point or anther had made fun of Betty for her looks and the way she dresses.
With the story line spinning like crazy, how can ABC be so inconsiderate of people like me that love the show to cancel the show? Is it even remotely the viewers’ fault that the ratings dropped like that? I find it despicable that the station is blaming the viewers for not watching the show. During season four, the station tried to improve the ratings by moving the show to different time slots. First moving it to Friday night at ten, then moving to Wednesday night at ten. More than 5.8 million viewers watched the series finale, which in my mind is a lot of people. It is very saddening that they cancelled the show, but as America Ferera had said, people today don’t only watch shows on TV; they can catch it on Hulu, TiVo, and so many other media resources.
But many questions are not answered: Did they cancel the show because Betty has turned beautiful and there were no more story lines to write? Or was it the fact that Justin is about to come out and they thought no one would watch the show because there is a gay character on Prime Time TV? And what about the wardrobe? Did it cost too much for them to continue the show because not enough people were watching?
The show meant so much to people across the nation. For the Ugly Betty cast, the show was more than just another show; it was empowerment. The main character for the show is a Latino, and not even just a Hispanic person, but also a Latina female. For many of the people, they will have some sort of ugliness that they feel inside at one point or another that they can relate. It is also one of the very few drama shows that have fashion as one of the main themes. Ugly Betty will be missed and lets hope for a movie... soon.

Pee. El.