User blog comment:CreddieLuv4eva/"Is it too late for you to love me?" Analysis Blog/@comment-3101374-20120627103929/@comment-4196911-20120628105956

@Neonpink:

Pretty much agree with everything you've said here. i feel like i could have written it myself, our opinions match so well on these matters. Just a couple of quick comments:

'''Sounds to me more like a kid that knew the break-up was for the best (because you can love someone, but maybe not be right for each other right then), but that didn't want to let it go just yet because he genuinely loved Sam romantically. He wanted to be with her a little bit longer. Sure, they didn't stay together…but they did what they could to make it last.'''

Yes. Frankly, the situation happens all the time in popular entertainment where someone says "I love you, but I don't think this is working right now." That doesn't mean the "love" is platonic, and it definitely isn't the same thing as "This won't work because you don't really love me" - which is essentially what Freddie said to Carly, even if you're a Creddier and you think Freddie was wrong or confused about that.

If you want to highlight friendship when they're breaking up, you don't use "love" there. You'd have Dan make Freddie say something like, "I care about you, and your friendship means a lot to me. Never forget that, even when we fight." Instead, he does a "I love you - I love you too" which is a direct parallel back to the "I hate you - hate you too" of iKIss. Which tells me that Dan has always been thinking, "When they say hate, they really mean love." That just isn't platonic love, no matter how you slice it.

I also don't agree that Sam and Freddie don't accept each other's personalities. What led to their break-up was a disastrous attempt to share hobbies.

For example, my wife and I have an excellent marriage. We certainly have enough things in common, but our personalities are different in many ways and it isn't a problem. I also have many interests that my wife has no love for (like arguing on the internet about TV, among other things). She just doesn't get it, and if she tried to "share" this with me somehow, she'd be completely bored and would consider it pointless. She'd hate doing it, so she doesn't even attempt it. Doesn't mean she doesn't love me, and it doesn't mean our relationship doesn't work. We do a lot of things together, but not everything. The question is: Does Dan think Sam and Freddie are too different to make it work? Creddiers think so, but I don't think Dan thinks so. I just think he needed a reason to break them up so that their relationship wasn't a permanent focus of the show. But with the series finale coming up, all bets are off.

'''If Tori couldn't make a move on Beck because of Jade (who she has an…interesting relationship with), is it really believable that Carly would get with Freddie when she and Sam are BEST friends. I know, I know. Different shows, different characters, different histories, but it's the same show runner so that's got to count for something.'''

Not to mention the fact that Dan wen't out of his way to mention online after the episode how great and decent it was that Tori wouldn't do that. I find it hard to believe that Dan would praise Tori for something noble like that, and then make Carly do the exact opposite in the future.