User blog comment:Cartoonprincess/Why I Feel Unfulfilled xP/@comment-3277817-20120526163829

You know what makes me feel all sad and unsettled? The fact that over these past few months, myself, along with may other users, have been saying that iCarly should end. iCarly is getting old, iCarly is dragging on, etc. Even as far as the day before I heard the announcement of it ending, I had that wrapped inside of my head.

Then BAM, all of a sudden, I hear that it's ending, and I don't want it to end. I know it has to, but I don't want it too. Some of the episodes I've been calling horrible weren't so bad, now that I've gone back and re-watched them. Good, actually. (I'm talking about the recent ones, I think everyone agrees that they enjoyed the first few episodes/first few seasons or so.; Seasons 1-3) I think this Wikia influenced some of the things in the actual episodes. I'm not even going to comment on shipping because that literally broke/changed everything for me, but I'll comment on that in another blog about the Wiki itself.

As for the Wiki, I loved how we would all talk to each other about the show, and how the comments were moving every second, and how excited we were for the episodes. That, is gone. For the most part, at-least.

Back to the show, I really do agree about the loose-end thing. There are, what, 10 episodes left? 9? 8? The thing is, we know the plots of half/most of these episodes already, which makes it worse, because they have nothing to do we tying these loose-end knots, and I'm not confident it can happen in 1 finale, 1 hour-long episode, even an episode longer than that. It can happen, but I'm not all that sure that it will. The friendship between the characters doesn't even feel like a real friendship. What Dan is doing at this point is not actually writing, in the case of actually strong, chaarcter-revolving plots. What Dan is doing, is taking the elements of the original show (Gibby, Marissa, T-Bo, Sam shoving food down her throat, Freddie being a tech-nerd) etc, and putting them in each episode, and then adding a plot in the middle. It's way too re-curring now, while before it was just natural, and not forced. I'm convinced he's even doing this Creddie thing to bring back another main element, which was Freddie crushing on Carly in Season 1. It just doesn't feel all that right.

Is it really iCarly? I don't know. I really hope these last few episodes can turn things around.