User blog comment:Serene Girl/Sam & Freddie - Breaking The Emotional Shell/@comment-3276102-20110501180825/@comment-3419317-20110501183243

I don't know if what I wrote there might come as a surprise to some people. It may seem to contradict a lot of what I've been saying lately, about how I would expect Sam and Freddie to "bounce back" relatively quickly and easily from the pain of a breakup on the show.

Well, you have to look at it in a certain context.

When I was talking about how Sam and Freddie's relationship is built on courage, I was deliberately disregarding the fact that this is a children's show. Essentially, I was describing how I would view their relationship if it happened on a regular television series, or even in real life.

I meant everything that I said there, about Sam and Freddie's courage, and about how I felt it was a very poignant quality of their relationship. But I also meant it when I said that I didn't believe we would see anything quite that heavy factor into the T.V. series. Fan fiction, sure, but not the actual show.

For that, I had to adjust my views somewhat. Taking into account that this is a children's show, and also, as I've often said, the cartoonish nature of this particular children's show. With that in mind, I honestly feel that a breakup of Sam and Freddie's relationship, or a love triangle, would not be as dramatic on iCarly as it would be expected to be if it happened on a show for an older audience, or in real life.

Well, those are my views, and people can make of them what they will.

Now, what about this blog? What I've said here about Freddie's emotional development, and Sam's role in it ... Is that a "real life only" analysis, or one for the actual show?

To be honest, I'm not sure. I'm kind of torn on this. I read over what I've written, and part of me thinks, "That would all be perfectly fine if you were writing a fan fiction story, or a different kind of T.V. series. But for iCarly, it's overkill. You're overanalyzing this."

But then, I think, "Well, maybe not. I could actually see Dan Schneider writing up a few scenes focusing on Sam and Freddie's friendship in this manner."

I really think it's possible that Dan Schneider could depict Sam and Freddie having a serious talk, like the ones in iKiss and iOMG, about their friendship and what it's meant to both of them. We have seen that kind of heart-to-heart stuff on the show before. It might very well fit.

So, I don't know. It's possible. It could happen.