User blog comment:GiantKid/In preparation for iGoodBye an appreciation post for Carly and why I will sink/sail with Creddie till the end/@comment-4196911-20121116115858/@comment-4402317-20121116143535

Hey Arch, always love your comments.

To get to the point, I would have to disagree with you with that being "just okay" with Carly. Dan has written Carly in a way that her having a bf every week is unfortunately her only flaw. Carly really is a good person considering what she has to deal with on a daily basis. Because this is a TV show and not real life, to have her not develop or at least recognize this flaw is just poor writing, especially because she is the main character.

I have no doubt that if Carly was a real person that I would just be like "ehh, she'll learn in time, meet someone else in college or after." But Carly isn't real... her story ends with iCarly. The possiblitles of what can happen to her have no bounds because nothing else is written. She could die in a plane crash on the way over for all we know. Carly's canon character development will end with this last episode of iCarly. There is no reason to believe other than our opinions that she will settle down later in life.

As I mentioned, with Sam & Cat in the picture, this is a whole different ball game. It would be one thing if Sam's story also ended on iCarly, but it doesn't. Sam can continue to grow as a character, and she also has the chance to find someone new on her new show, where as, Carly and Freddie don't. I can understand if Seddie fan's don't like Creddie because they think that they wouldn't get along (although I would highly disagree with that based on their canon friendship) but it's another to neglect Creddie because you like Seddie better. I'm also not stating that Sam shouldn't have grown as a character.

BOTH Carly and Sam should have had character development, my agruement is "why didn't the main character?". Not even with Creddie, but just in general. My statement about her "realizing that she is in love with Freddie" is because it would be the only chance of character development that she would be able to have (based on her past with dating a bunch of boys) before her show ends and we learn nothing new about her again.

Also, if Dan really was trying to go with the "well, I don't want to introduce anyone else to the cast so Carly can have a new guy every week theory" then he wouldn't have made Gibby a regular.