User blog comment:FallinqForYouhx3/Why Creddie? Because Freddie "deserves" Carly?/@comment-4184884-20110924164923

Well, I basically already commented on this in your other post, but again awesome post! haha

I guess I'll just say what I said there though and expand a little bit:

Love is not a matter of "deserving". Love is about how you feel. In terms of the argument that "Freddie deserves Carly." Well, sure he's a nice guy and she's a nice girl and he used to have a huge unrequited crush on her, so yeah he is "worthy" of her. But that doesn't change the fact that she doesn't love him and never has. That's what love is about. How you feel. And Carly's made her feelings clear for a very long time now: She doesn't love him. I don't know about you, but I think if Freddie "deserves" anything, he "deserves" a girl who loves him and is head over heels for him. That person: Samantha Puckett,

Honestly, for a really long time in the series, I think Creddie and Seddie were on a very even playing field. There was one side where the feelings were at least somewhat clear and one side where there was the potential for hidden feelings that could surface at a later time.

Then came iSYL. Frankly, If there had been real underlying feelings on Carly's end, she wouldn't have bought in so easily to Sam's bacon theory. She would have fought for Freddie. In fact, there could have been a rather touching moment of Carly confirming, "No, Freddie. You're not bacon. I really do like you and maybe I have for a while and didn't really realize." Or even better for Creddie, Carly could have had a realization during their dance in iSpeed Date. Sam could have never walked through those doors, getting rid of the main piece of irrefutable proof at that point that Sam liked Freddie. Carly could have, in the emptiness of the groovy smoothie, looked up at Freddie and kissed him. Everything that followed would be the growth and cementing of Creddie. Carly accepting her feelings for him. Freddie realizing that Carly really does finally want him back. The formation of a relationship between them. How that relationship affects everyone else. Heck, that right there could have been a creddie arc starting point and, while I wouldn't have been fond of it, I would have accepted it and understood that it was a logical turn of events.

But that didn't happen. Carly and Freddie dance at the groovy smoothie and nothing changes between them. The focus is instead on Sam's down-trodden look upon leaving the Groovy Smoothie. The first irrefutable piece of proof that she had romantic feelings for Freddie. iSYL comes and Carly easily accepts the bacon theory. Time passes and Carly never attempts to get him back. She dates other guys and never has any epiphany about Freddie. When asked if she's dating Freddie, as recently as iSAFW, she says "Ewww.No!" She watches her best friend basically admit to being in love with him. She watches as that relationship develops and it grows clearer and clearer that Freddie's affections no longer favor her, but have now turned to her best friend.

And never once is there a moment of realization or discovery of hidden feelings.

If none of that could dig up those "supposedly buried feelings", that I don't know what could.