Talk:Seddie/@comment-3541132-20110702030535/@comment-4444146-20110702031723

This is my theory as to why not many people like Carly. Please don't be offended, I'm only trying to help you understand our way of thinking.

First of all, I'm not going to say it's because she's bratty or spoiled or selfish. She only acts that way sometimes. All of the characters have off days sometimes.

I personally think that people dislike Carly because the people around her are more 'interesting' than her. Again, please don't take this the wrong way because I'm not trying to call Carly a boring character. I love Carly, I just love the other characters way more.

It's like Tori from Victorious. It seems like no one likes her (I LOVE Tori). They call her pretty much the same as Carly. Boring, spoiled, selfish...ect...

But some just don't like Tori because she's not as 'fun' as the other character. They prefer her funnier and (arguably) more talented friends better. It's the same with Zoey from Zoey101.

Dan Schneider has it so that the main female character is considered the most 'normal' out of everyone. And unfortunately 'normal' comes with less interesting, less character development, and more of a constant mood or feel to the character so that the viewer can have the feeling of consistency in watching a show lead by an unchanging character.

It gets boring and sometimes annoying for us to watch Carly, who never does anything 'new'. Freddie grows into this more rebellious guy compared to his season 1 character who had no freedom and did whatever his mom said.

Sam shows her feelings for Freddie and tears all of her walls down. We also meet her mom and her clothing style becomes different. Carly stays the same throughout all of this.

Once again, I sincerely hope you didn't take this the wrong way because if it weren't for all of the amazing characters surrounding Carly and if she had more character development (less boyfriends, maybe one guy who she could have serious chemistry with who she could stick with and we could watch her character grow) she would most definitely be a more popular character.

She's far from a bad character, it's just that Dan portrays all of his female leads in the same, plain old way and it bores and sometimes annoys us.