User blog comment:Churchpants/*Please* Cut the Creddiers Some Slack/@comment-3302104-20110622175119/@comment-3419317-20110622210308

@ Seddieftwyea :

An "arc" is an actual storyline. What happened between Carly and Freddie during the first three seasons was more like a recurring theme that ultimately didn't go anywhere.

The kiss on the nose in iLike Jake ... Carly's amused look when Freddie said, "I'm lonely and available" in iSaw Him First ... Carly's wide-eyed expression at seeing Freddie in a tux in iCarly Awards ... Moments like those were all well and good, but that wasn't Creddie actually happening. Carly and Freddie weren't actually together, remember.

It was just teasing, really, just like when Dan Schneider remarked that it was "interesting" that Carly seemed bothered by the idea of Freddie losing his crush on her in iFight Shelby Marx.

Some folks keep saying things like, "The Creddiers should just go back and watch Seasons 1-3 again if they want more Creddie," but people who say that are missing the point that the Creddiers only liked those "moments" because they offered hope that a Carly/Freddie relationship would happen at some point in the future. Hope that now seems to have gone nowhere.

Even iSaved Your Life was, in a sense, a tease. After the episode was over, the Creddiers were left wondering if Carly's feelings for Freddie were real, and if their romantic relationship was ever genuine. They were still wondering if Carly and Freddie would ever actually be together (for real).

This is, I think, the reason that many Creddiers are unhappy with Dan Schneider now. Not because he is putting Sam and Freddie together (perhaps permanently), but because he spent three years or more repeatedly teasing the Creddiers with hopes of a Carly/Freddie relationship, and then just basically dropped the whole thing and started completely ignoring the Creddiers, with no real explanation, no resolution, no closure.

So what was the point? What do the Creddiers have to show for the four years they've been waiting? Was it worth it? Sometimes, being disappointed is worse than having no hope in the first place.

Some of us are just trying to insert a little perspective here, when people make it sound like Creddie was actually happening during the entire first three seasons. It wasn't. Creddie may have been closer to happening than Seddie was, but neither ship was actually happening - yet.