Talk:Seddie/@comment-24341760-20140522163236/@comment-14284535-20140522224457

I just did a bit of research. The numbers bear out virtually all of the ideas on why iCarly and Victorious went downhill.

Victorious started about 1/2 of the way through season 3 of iCarly - oddly enough, the start of its filming coincides with most people's perceived devline in the iCarly writing around here.

From 30 July 2011 to 2 February 2013, Victorious broadcast the equivalent of 34 half-hour episodes, 31 of which were written or co-written by Dan Schneider - and all three that he didn't write came before the end of the 2011...and one of those was a blooper episode to boot. Meanwhile, from 9 April 2011 through 23 November 2012, iCarly broadcast the equivalent of 30 half-hour episodes, only 2 of which Dan Schneider did not write or co-write. I imagine that he spent a LOT more time working on the script for iOMG - he wrote only three stories (all Victorious) that were broadcast between iStart a Fan War (19 November 2010) and iOMG (9 April 2011) - nearly a 6 month span. No wonder iOMG is so good - he actually worked on it.

In a 22 month span, he wrote or co-wrote 59 of 64 scripts for his series, or about 30 episodes per year. In the previous years of iCarly, he wrote an average of 7 episodes per year. Think about that. He could not have possibly done the planning and analysis he would need to do before even think about scripts for either series and have the characters evolve intelligently and handle all of the issues brought up intelligently.