User blog comment:IEmbargo/iCarly - What Do You Think?/@comment-24275744-20140319173717

iEmbargo,

As usual I enjoy reading your insight. StarShine and Passionate have said a lot of the things I was thinking but there is one question I hope that you will address.

''[I refuse to believe that is an accident - just as I refuse to believe that everybody involved in the production are so stupid as not to recognise how Freddie looks when he celebrates after Carly kisses him and I refuse to believe that the casting of Freddie clones in Miranda Cosgrove' videos is an accident. They run a multi-billion dollar company over there. They don't make money my not making these elementary decisions by accident.''

''If Dan Schneider really wanted to make sure that you interpreted the Creddie kiss as a mere goodbye kiss, he would have made sure it got into the broadcast. The episode is rather padded; it would have been easy enough to edit a few seconds out of another scene to make that clear. Even if it weren't, he could edit something too long and then time compress it by 1% so that no one would notice. But he didn't.]''

Yes, I concede that the Creddie kiss itself had romantic intentions. You said if Dan Schneider wanted us to interpret something a certain way he would have put it in broadcast right? '''So if that's the case, then why the obvious awkwardness after the kiss? What is the purpose?'''  If they loved each other romantically wouldn't they have been happy about this kiss? At least initially before it set in that they were going to have to have a long distance relationship? If they would have smiled at each other instead of clearing their throats before Carly said "I'll go get my bags" that would have changed the entire thing. A smile would have shown that they enjoyed it and that there is something mutual and good there between them. The awkwardness was a deliberate decision.