User blog comment:Lady Magique/Is there any way around the "out of order airing" issue?/@comment-3083473-20110504232604/@comment-3419321-20110506055341

@ LiSi :

"Them having a backdrop relationship where you see little moments between them is the EXACT SAME THING as the "secret Seddie" we've had up to now."

Actually, in my view, that was more or less the problem.

I figured that the audience would expect things to change significantly once Sam and Freddie entered a long-term relationship.

Now that they were in a very different kind of relationship than they were before, the viewers would expect things to get shaken up, and for Sam and Freddie to grow and develop more significantly than they had before.

The audience wouldn't want things to be just the same as they were before. They would want something to change. At least, that's what I thought.

My thought process had been that a "backdrop relationship" would be less satisfying than not creating an ongoing relationship because it would be a disappointment, and would leave the viewers with no significant developments to look forward to for the future.

Again, I could be wrong.