User blog comment:Bolivianbacon/iSAFW: Epic or epic fail?/@comment-4196911-20110809001506

1. Adam was just another BF of the week, the usual iCarly pattern. I consider it believable for him to ditch Carly after the craziness that happened to him just by virtue of trying to be her boyfriend. Who wants to deal with that? 2. I agree. And I do blame the network rather than Dan for that. 3. Didn't bother me. There are hits and misses in many episodes YMMV. 4,5: The common iCarly pattern. Not unusual. 6. Agree. This in combination with the misleading promotion really rubbed people the wrong way. For once I agree with some Creddiers that Dan made this episode deliberately knowing that he was going to do one ship and essentially kill the other. He was hoping to retain viewers by more-or-less telling them to keep watching for the "funny" even if their ship doesn't happen. He was trying to prime one group of shippers for upcoming bad news. 7. I don't agree that this happened. If it did, how would you confirm it? 8. We're good at making shipping problems with out help from this episode, but you're right, it didn't help the situation. 9. Never happening anyway. 10.Creddie might need more of a conclusion than this, but Carly and Freddie denied not just that they were "dating", but that they were "in love" - a bigger deal. 11. "Finally, it made fun of the crazy shippers" You can argue this is a good thing. Some people felt they were lumped in with the crazies and made fun of, but I didn't feel that way.

Bottom line for me? A decent episode on its own, when viewed in a vacuum. But negative when all teh things surrounding it were taken into account. It's always dangerous to put the fans actually in the show, and Dan definitely had a tough time walking the high wire on this one.