User blog comment:Jb1210/The State of iCarly... evaluating Season 5/@comment-4169456-20120123150204/@comment-4184884-20120123163033

I kind of disagree with some of what you've said. I do agree that the seddie thing probably drove away some in the fan base (particularly those of the main opposing ship) and I think the arc was not as successful as Dan hoped, but I think that goes beyond just seddie and goes into programming and promotion issues as well. (Though that's another argument for another day.)

Anyways, I think that he could be done with ships. I think he could have, as you said, given both main ships a bone and now is done with the whole thing. And people probably would be happier, on both sides, if they didn't get their hopes so set on one thing or the other happening, but that's sometimes hard to do when you ship something that's happened and supported in canon. You know it's been there once before, so you can't help but hope that it returns (and look for every possible clue along the way that it will.)

As for the Fred-bot convo I think it was big for seddie, not even necessarily in the romantic sense, but in the friendship sense, because Sam would not have handled Freddie the way she did were it season 1 or 2 or 3. That moment showed that her relationship with Freddie had changed things between them and that they had grown much closer. Old Sam would have probably antagonized Freddie in that situation. For her to sit down and tell him tech stuff is creative and to want to support him and make him happy and stop others (like spencer) from inadvertently hurting his feelings...well that's a big thing for Sam. It's a big moment without a doubt because it's shows growth (which understandably, seddie shippers can't help but see as foundation for a future relationship revisiting.)

And iLY, I would say it was just a s friends were the context different and I would say the kiss was just hormones were the context different. Maybe it they had just said "love ya" then walked away from each other, no kissing I'd see it as just friends. Or if they'd just kissed and not said "I love you", then I'd see it as just hormones. But when you put those two things together, you can't really view them as separate actions unrelated to one another. Sam has never said I love you to anyone in the series other than her mom I believe. I don't even think we've ever heard her say it to Carly, her best friend (though I'm sure she does). The fact that she said it to Freddie shows that it is a big moment, and following it up with a kiss reinforces that it's not a platonic sort of love. Of course that's just my opinion.

And the fact is, Dan will get badgered if he revisits Seddie and badgered if he doesn't. At this point, it's a loose/loose because he's made people invested in this ship.

Am I 100% certain seddie is endgame? No. Of course not. Not even close. Do I think seddie shippers have enough reason and canon support to at least hope that it will be? Yes. Absolutely.