Talk:Seddie/@comment-3180503-20140706180436

In defense of my "Creddie was planned all along" argument (which I do not believe devalues or taints my Seddie-shipping or makes me a Creddier in any sense), I'd like to point out the earlier seasons.

Like the lot of you, I agree that these are the seasons where Seddie shines the brightest. These episodes are what made me the shipper I am today (NOT a Creddie one). And for the record, at the time and even up until recently, there was no doubt in my mind that it was all leading up to a Seddie endgame. However, upon rewatching some of the older episodes under a more mature and objective lens, I've realized something that a lot of you will dismiss and/or not like hearing.

While episodes like iReuinite with Missy and iMust Have Locker239 certainly vitalize and give special attention to developing the Seddie FRIENDSHIP, there were hardly any hints of actual romance in them at all.

But what about iKiss?? I'll get to that.

The way I see it (and Tash was the one who opened my eyes to this so you can blame him ;P), that episode was meant to strengthen the Seddie friendship by having Sam actually show some kind of remorse for the way she treats Freddie. It also showed us that Freddie actually doesn't even mind being tormented by Sam and that he realizes that it's just a part of their friendship dynamic.

Now, was this the best way to show us this? Absolutely not. Was it misleading? As all hell. It essentially catapulted the Seddie fandom into what it is today. However, I'm still not fully convinced that he was trying to imply romance in that episode. I would have believed it (and I did believe it) but then iOpen a Restaurant happened and....yeah. :3

But even without barring those episodes into account, I still can't deny there were a lot of Seddie hints all over the place. Blatant ones, too. "Sam if you're in love with me just say so" comes to mind. Yet, as we discussed in great depth, all of the tension and build-up that had been developing for three whole seasons seemed to drop off after iGaHR. Then, iStart a Fanwar basically told us to stop caring about ships right before Dan wrote a 5 EPISODE Seddie arc that broke them up for a completely contrived reason.

Idk, guys. I just don't know. xP