User blog comment:Churchpants/Freddie Can't Date Sam If He's Not in Love with Her?/@comment-2109318-20110511043853

Two words that synopsize my feelings on the iSYL matter: FOREIGN. BACON. What Carly thought was love was, in fact, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. She knew how close she had come to dying. She knew that Freddie had taken on pain and suffering on her behalf. Freddie was her savior and as such, she worshiped him for his heroics and "loved him" with blinders on. I don't believe that Sam wanted to cause trouble, but she couldn't let her friends live in a fool's paradise and become miserable after realizing it all too late. Once Freddie brought up the subject to Carly, the spell was broken with SHOCKING quickness. One thing that moves me after all this time: Carly had always been kind to Freddie. She was generally respectful of his feelings and tried to let him down easy about 90% of the time, yet her immature attitude about love that she had showcased multiple times pervented her from seeing the staggering goodness of a guy who was right in front of her the whole time. Sam, who wasn't even Freddie's friend straight out the gate, who teased and abused him to the end of the earth, wound up loving him for no other reason than him being who he was. =*)