User blog comment:Cartoonprincess/Was The Arc a Mistake?/@comment-4184884-20110820150635

I disagree.

He doesn't need to throw creddie shippers a bone. That's not a given or a right. With TV shows, the creators don't owe the audience things in regards to ships. Dan had the option of going either way, which is why I think he teased both Creddie and Seddie for so long, but now that he's going the seddie route (at least for the time being) so there's no point to tease Creddie or throw them a bone.

While I think 5 episodes is a lot for a show that only airs maybe 10 times a year, if that, I don't think it's an act of desperation where seddie=ratings. We've seen with iLMM that's not how it works. Even iOMG didn't do as well as iSYL. If he wanted ratings, he could have run with Creddie in season 3 as it did amazingly well. But he didn't. Frankly, I just think seddie is the way he wants to go and he feels that, to do it justice, it can't play out in one 25 minute episode. It needs more time.

I also don't think it contradicts iSAFW. iSAFW's message was that yes there will shipping and romance (hence Sam's "yeah, we're teenagers with those feelings" comment), but you shouldn't get so wrapped up in it that you can't even see the comedy that's at it's core. You shouldn't be metaphorically throwing chairs over it. Yes, shipping is a big aspect of the show now, but it's still not the core. The core is, and always has been, humor.