Talk:Cam Relationship/@comment-4818278-20120513163324/@comment-4060828-20120513192438

Mostly agree. Spencer's plot was hilarious and I found myself wishing the episode was just 15-20 minutes of that.

I wouldn't have minded the Carly subplot if it wasn't so... weird? Carly being flirty was nice until it became really creepy and stalkerish. Throw that in with the bizarre guy plays up nerd aspect into "ultra smooth cool hip guy" and the whole thing felt like it was half developed. Finally Carly's freaking out over the guy NOT being a nerd was awkward as well since Carly is rarely that forthright about guys having certain characteristics to them. I recently re-watched IQ and I agree that the writers are seemingly starting to play up Carly's lack of success in dating and her desperation, which is a shame since she is wicked attractive and would not nearly have that much trouble at least hanging onto a boy. I could buy her struggling with dates/boys not really her type ala IQ but I feel like as you said, she's turning into a punching bag.

The whole Sam aspect reminded me of the episode iSellPennyTees. It's like the writers threw everything upside down just for the sake of a punchline type joke at the end and subsequently ruined Sam's character and bombed Freddie's character. Working in retail myself, the whole plot was insulting (above and beyond being dumb). Made worse because Sam has shown some enterpernurial savvy before (iSPT and iOpenARestaurant) so why make her so... evil? Don't even get me started on the Gibby subplot.

As for Sam's comments re: Freddie's love, etc. it was clearly supposed to be a parody of such plots (Friend A gets job, Friend B gets job too and rises quickly) done on other shows. IMO it was pretty blatant that Sam didn't really believe it but was saying it just to be more jerktastic and because the writers couldn't do anything right with her character.

The absolute worst part of it is that iHalfoween was so PERFECT and then this follows it. I think that the writers have partly written themselves into a corner now because they can't truly go back to the S1/S2 type plots (Carly/Freddie have history and Sam/Freddie freaking dated for a while) and yet they ran through a Seddie relationship and can't really get into a Creddie relationship so soon after without making it look contrived.

Also I'm not a huge fan of Gibby's growing involvement in the show but that's just me. He's struck me as extremely one note and best in small doses (ala the early seasons). No surprise that he was pretty minimal in iHalfoween and that's my favorite episode in a long while.