User blog comment:XxiOMGxx/Why did Dan choose seddie?/@comment-4196911-20110824114027

I''m more or less in agreement. Many Seddiers predicted, almost a year in advance, that an episode like iSYL needed to happen. Freddie needed to have an opportunity to be with Carly, and decide to reject her for some reason, or the moving of his romantic attention somewhere else wouldn't be believable. You could even argue that (from a writer's perspective) the only reason you have Freddie and Carly slow-dance together AT ALL is so that Sam could see it, and the audience could therefore see her reaction and get information about what she was feeling.

I think it's totally understandable for someone who simply prefers the Carly/Freddie chemistry to have made the assumption - at first - that they would end up together. After all, Freddie's crush was showcased in the very first episode, and it would have been reasonable at the time to think that maybe the show would move in that direction.

But it's important to remember that there's more than one common storyline in the world that screenwriters use, and the boy-next-door finally getting his "dream girl" is only one of them. Another popular one is where you set up a situation where a guy thinks he's in love with one girl because of certain qualities he thinks she has, and all the while his soulmate/destiny (the girl he's actually supposed to be with) is right under his nose, but he doesn't really notice her in that way at first and it takes him a long time to figure it out. Very common, and we're seeing Dan use a variation of that here.