User blog comment:Cartoonprincess/What Happens *Next*??? o O/@comment-2032682-20110613142507

If you go by TV history, the chances are that with a love/hate couple together before the show ends, that their characters will change, their relationship turns mushy, they practically become different people, and people will start to dislike them together because it's boring or mushy compared to when they weren't together.

That's not just because I ship Creddie, it's just the way things are.

A love/hate couple that gets together changes the dynamic of the relationship and the show massively.

Not many writers can pull off the change successfully.

Ironically, the Creddie style romance is far more suited to this change because the Creddie-couple's change is far less extreme than a love/hate couple changing from love/hate to love. Even Seddiers admit that Creddie has a lot of cute, close moments (which they call friendship, but it doesn't matter).

Creddie going from cute close 'friendship' moments to cute, close 'relationship' moments isn't a big change.

Seddie has a lot of violent, over the top, grrr raaaagh moments. Just look at all the 'moments' in the Seddie page. Sam hitting Freddie, Sam wrestling Freddie, Sam insulting him etc. That's what everyone who ships Seddie loves to say, "Sam does all those things because she's secretly in love". So what happens when they aren't secret?

Does she keep doing them? The whole reason for her hitting/insults is done. Freddie knows. They get together. But that the raaaagh moments are a major part of her character and treating Freddie poorly is a big part of the comedy.

Going from violent over the top raaaagh grr moments to a relationship can be hard, and if done badly can: 1) Make the couple look boring, because the writer tones down the raaaagh and kills what people liked about them, perhaps to the point of schmoopy love struck boring saccharine jank. 2) Make the couple look psychotic and completely ill suited to each other, by keeping them switching between kissy faces and raaaaagh moments. They switch back and forth between love and hate and it doesn't look healthy.

If you go too far either way it makes the relationship look bad. It can also make Sam in this case look really bad. If she keeps hitting Freddie, and keeps insulting him, that's something viewers won't now associate with "She does it because she secretly loves him" they'll associate it with "Wow... she's a mean girlfriend."

I really hope no-one takes this as 'ship-warring' I'm just trying to discuss the premise here. Dan could make the perfect blend of love and 'hate' and kissing and everyone might love it. I'm just pointing out things that could also happen.