Talk:Seddie/@comment-3180503-20140914192430/@comment-14284535-20140914211000

I think this one is more complex than we think it is. IMHO, it looks like Jennette was told that she would get to be a lead. Then she found out that Ariana would be starring with her - maybe they had had an agreement of some sort that to do a show together or some such.

So she signs her contract - and then maybe we are staring at bait-and-switch. When DS comes up with  S&C, Jennette is probably upset but goes along with it out of loyalty to Nick and DS. Then she saw how awful the pilot script was and threw that tantrum we all heard about. And then it's all downhill from there.

She DID think about bailing on S&C. It took some convincing on several people's parts to convince her to stay. Maybe she was warned by her advisors that there would be flak if she bailed. So she stuck it out.

Everyone shares blame for this; I pin most of it on DS. For instance, he could have come up with another series. He could have actually thought about the series he came up with and actually dealt with the issues that would require the Sam character to mature. He could have had other people write for the series. He could have asked for a long break after the first 20 episodes. Remember: Jennette and Ariana were his top 2 assets; it was his job to prevent a blow-up like we saw.