Connor V Nico

This is a very good entry posted on the Ugly Betty Live Journal community that I saw that provided plenty of food for thought for me, and I'm sure it will for you as well. 


Here, a user going by the name of Mozartbitch offers her take on the roles of Connor and Nico throughout the series. Thanks to Mozartbitch for posting this and good thing she highlighted this issue as well i'd say.  

Connor Verses Nico


I have waited long to post this thought on the final outcome on Ugly Betty characters in Wilhelmina's circle so here I go. I wish to delve into how the series handled Connor as opposed to Niko. I'm not entirely sure I spelled "Niko" correctly, but here are my thoughts:

Both Niko and Connor did some pretty awful, deceptive tricks beneficial to them and none others at the time. In their minds, there was justified rationale, but their selfish actions were harmful to others in the process. Nonetheless, the show's love humanizing apparent villains and dehumanizing apparent good guys worked not as well for this particular instance. Most notably, I did not appreciate the way the show entirely wrote Niko off in such a cold manner and yet made Connor about to be so much more desirable than such a double-crossing snake as Niko turned out to be.

NIKO

She lied to her Mother in attempt to leach off of her financially (in essence, steal) by staging a murder and in essence had no qualms and had no problems abandoning her in the end. That is awful. I don't care how negligent Wilhelmina was. Niko had no right to do that. Fine. Nonetheless, Wilhelmina spent Niko's entire childhood treating her like a distraction as opposed to a daughter. She provided Niko with no compassionate motherhood and the bitterness resulted.

CONNOR

The man abandons his fiance for Wilhelmina, steals millions of dollars from MODE, ditches his now former fiance with no apparent knowledge or care at all that she has cancer, and reduces MODE so close to bankruptcy that they are reduced to receiving a sizeable grant from the manipulative Cal Hartley. Are those the works of a saint? What were his rationales? Vengeance at Daniel for stealing Molly from him while he was secretly having an affair with Wilhelmina anyway? Providing a life for Wilhelmina to live freely and happily while she raises a child whom she has no biological or legal rights to at all?

FINAL THOUGHTS

I don't mind the show working to humanize Connor. He's a definite villain, but the show does a fantastic job constantly alternating your interpretations of characters. I just really felt for Niko a lot in the first season. I would have prefered the fourth season to have either given a more human outlook to her which it just flat out didn't or to have just moved on from like a character.

It is rather evident the writers did not know where they were going with the series at the end of season three. The finale left so many plotlines for season 4, that they evidently had plenty of ideas, but which ones they were actually going to build on I really can't believe they knew. I think they had just moved on from Niko, but wanted to try her out one more time which they did not, so they just abruptly pulled the plug to their best of their abilities.


Mozartbitch aka One Quality Studmuffin

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