Thread:Passionate Seddier45/@comment-3180503-20140628013524/@comment-3180503-20140717222043

That last sentence is very true. iCarly would not have done nearly as well if it weren't for the ships. It would have just been seen as a cheap D&J knock-off. That's what makes me all the more bitter at Dan for screwing up the ships so royally. He executed the ships perfectly on Zoey 101 and even D&J, which shows he's capable.

That being said, I honestly don't know if romance on S&C would have been much of an improvement. If it's a "guy-of-the-week" sort of thing akin to what they put Carly through then it would have gotten old very quickly. At the same time, the show absolutely never acknowledged the true ages of the lead characters. It's like Dan was trying so hard to keep 20-somethings acting like 13 year olds--pathetic! xP