Talk:Seddie/@comment-24856071-20140225215918/@comment-14284535-20140228161005

The two lessons that nobody seemed to learn from iChristmas are that Sam gives Carly the taste to not think that Nevel Papperman is good BF material and that Sam gives Freddie backbone. He holds on to his dream of Carly in part in defiance of Sam. (I should also mention that "please, for me" is very manipualtive and, in some respects, worse than any of the violence Sam inflicts on Freddie.  Never mind that Freddie's affection for Carly is pretty creepy.)

I think the production team didn't realise the appeal of Seddie. Let's take a look at the can of worms they opened against the standard ship:

iKiss: I firmly believe that Sam had already made up her mind to kiss Freddie before she gets to the fire escape. Otherwise, she just makes her apology and leaves Freddie alone. Instead, SHE planted the idea of kissing to get it over with into his head and then goaded him into asking her. She probably figured that she could do a lot worse than Freddie.

iTwins: If you think about the last scene carefully, you can firmly prove that Freddie made out with Melanie, thinking she was Sam. If you think he did that only to get a reaction out of "Sam", I have a bridge to sell you. Also, Melanie's assertion that Freddie is adorable is a primitive hind-brain reaction, genetically wired into her. Thus, it is wired into her identical twin, who is therefore merely in denial of it.

I think the production staff did intend to go Creddie all the way, but at least experimented with Seddie to see what they had. The mishandling of the characters show that they really still don't understand the appeal of Seddie.