Talk:Seddie/@comment-24341760-20140619002845

I am seriously thinking about Princess's argument that the shipping aspect of Seasons 2-3 was meant to end with iquit icarly. If you look at it as a whole, it does make some sense as an "arc." It starts with I saw him first, where they agree not to compete, but Carly at the end decides she must win anyway, telling us the competition is more important to her than she lets on. Then we have Sam kiss Freddie, Carly find out and get pissed, then Carly dances with Freddie, Sam finds out and gets jealous, then Carly actually decides to date Freddie but they both realize she likes him for all the wrong reasons. And then it ends with the two girls getting into an even bigger fight than in Isaw him first, which is then resolved when they realize their friendship is more important, and Sam actually saves Carly from falling. Running through this are Sam and Freddie getting closer, which can be interpreted not so much as romantic, but simply strengthening the trio, as Sam's animosity toward Freddie was a source of tension. Him pulling her in the window can be said to restore balance for the trio. Still, I'm not entirely sure about it, because all Nick did was change the order of two episodes, and I doubt that was intentional. (It may have just had to do with what the network felt was the best timing for running isyl, which was very hyped and needed to be aired on a date likely to maximize ratings.). But when you end with iquit, there seems to be more of a resolution than when you end with isyl, which kind of begs for a follow- up. Also, in production order iMove out is supposed to happen AFTER everything, showing that Freddie has grown up as a result of what happened and perhaps is ready to move beyond the girls and his mother. Moving it to the beginning makes it look more like he is growing up and struggling with his feelings for both girls. I know when I watched them all originally, I was surprised they never revisited isyl, and I was also expecting Sam and Freddie to kiss again sometime. Anyway, if all this is true, it means the arc was done solely for ratings, I guess? Or did they realize at some point Seddie actually worked and was popular? Did the Jennette and Nathan chemistry derail the plan to have BOTH relationships ultimately prove insignificant? I still think there was a LOT of Seddie development throughout the series which is not easily explained by this theory, but that could be just the writing/acting?