User blog comment:Cartoonprincess/It's *Our* Turn Now/@comment-3419321-20110618053546/@comment-3419321-20110618233341

I want to make something clear :

I was not criticizing Dan Schneider at all.

Whether or not he "should" give equal time or attention to Creddie and Seddie has nothing to do with this. Whether or not I believe that he should, that wasn't my point.

I was taking issue with the way that some Seddiers (not a lot, just a few, really) have been claiming that because there has been so much "Creddie" already, that the Creddiers would come out "ahead" even if Sam and Freddie dated each other for the rest of the series now.

And to reach that conclusion, these people are taking everything that has ever happened between Carly and Freddie - the friendship, unrequited crush, and actual romance - and calling all of it "Creddie moments."

Now, that would be fine, if they did the same thing for Seddie ... but they don't. For Seddie, they only count iKiss, iOMG, the new story arc, and the following relationship. In other words, they only count the actual romance, not the Sam/Freddie friendship.

That completely skews the ratio to make it look like the Creddiers have been much more favored than they actually have.

In my opinion, we should just leave both friendships, and the unrequited crush, out of this completely, because that was never what any shippers wanted.

If Dan Schneider had openly depicted Sam as crushing on Freddie for the past season or more, would the Seddiers have felt any satisfaction in seeing that?

I doubt it. If anything, seeing Sam pining away hopelessly would have only made the Seddiers even more desperate to see Seddie happen, and to see Sam and Freddie happy together ... In other words, the Seddiers would have felt the way that the Creddiers have felt every time they saw Freddie pining away for Carly, only to get shot down.

An unrequited crush isn't what a shipper wants, and neither is friendship. Shippers want romance. Also, I've seen a number of Creddiers argue that the slow dance in iSpeed Date was a much better Creddie moment than the entire iSaved Your Life episode, for one simple reason : Carly danced with Freddie because she wanted to, not as a means of repaying him for something.

Besides, the slow dance was a genuinely sweet, romantic moment, and that was what the Creddiers wanted, not the endless, superficial kissing of iSaved Your Life, especially when the emotion may not have been real on Carly's part, anyway.

I guess it all depends on what you consider "romance." If you think kissing, in and of itself, is romance, then yes, the Creddiers have gotten more, although that's probably going to change once the new story arc happens, and it will definitely change if Sam and Freddie do wind up dating for the rest of the series.

If you consider heartfelt, mutual displays of love and affection to be romance (which I do, personally), then the Creddiers really haven't gotten all that much at all - just the slow dance in iSpeed Date, and perhaps the closing scene of iSaved Your Life, when Carly and Freddie shared a heart-to-heart moment as they were breaking up.

Even if Dan Schneider doesn't have to be "fair" to the Creddiers, we should be.

A five-episode arc devoted to Sam and Freddie's relationship is significantly more than anything that the Creddiers have received. And if Sam and Freddie were to date each other for the rest of the series, that would be HUGE compared to what the Creddiers have gotten.

The Seddiers should not be made to feel guilty for being happy about all of that ... but neither should the Creddiers be made to feel guilty about being unhappy over it.

The Creddiers should not be told, "Well, you'll still have a lot more than the Seddiers, even if Seddie becomes permanently canon now."

Because they won't.