User blog comment:Slicknickshady/Why do you think Dan edits his blogs so much?/@comment-2032682-20110706044932

Dan is a non-lying liar. I know that's a contradiction in terms, but his lies are not direct lies, but indirect, lies of omission and sprinkling "maybes" and "hmms" and other vague interpretations with no concrete structure. He's essentially nudging the reader of his blogs in an attempt to keep them interest whilst still not actually coming out and telling the truth. Which in my opinion is a form of lie.

He deliberately avoids saying certain things, and goes out of his way to say other certain things that most normal people would talk about (ie, spending more time on what his "friends" thought about Seddie than what he thought about the Creddie relationship during his iSaved Your Life blog), whilst still covering himself in the future so he can turn around and say he 'never lied' about anything. He's economical with the truth.

My issue with him is that instead of simply avoiding these topics, he goes out of his way to draw attention to them but talks about "maybes" and "hmms" and "interestings" all the stuff that he knows draws people in but gives no-one any real information, whilst still acting like the only thing he cares about is people watching the show itself, for itself as a whole (or at least, 'just the comedy'), even when he uses shipping to try and draw and keep viewers watching.

He keeps adding stuff in recent blogs because he knows at the moment he's got a backlash of Creddie shippers who don't accept his premise that the "comedy is everything". By forcing a 4 part Seddie arc from a very questionable storyline situation (with Sam having no actual indication of her romantic interest in any of the previous episodes before iOMG, with Carly and Freddie both remarking about how she has been acting differently in this one single episode only), people who don't like Seddie will see the rest of the show for what it is.

Last season was full of episodes with comedy that was stale and poor and the show as a whole has been overtaken by Victorious by way of 'quality comedy' because it's clear the best writers and comedy ideas are going to Victorious.

Creddie shippers and tired of being treated like children, having Dan whack us by trying to say the show is about "the comedy" and portraying Creddie as completely insane during iSAFW, then doing 5 episodes in a row of Seddie then have Seddie in plots after as well (basically none of the episodes filmed so far this season have any plot with Carly and Freddie involved in it together), but still trying to keep us interested by pandering about how "we'll be happy" about the future when he already knows the outcome of the shipping arc and thus knows exactly how people who ship Seddie and Creddie will react and should be avoiding promising we'll be 'happy' about anything.

What exactly will we be happy about?

We have no idea, because Dan doesn't say. Seddie could stay together and he could say:


 * Creddie shippers should be happy because Carly's got this super new nerdy boyfriend, just like Freddie.
 * Creddie shippers should be happy that the show they love is still on the air.
 * Creddie shippers should be happy because the comedy is so much better this year.
 * Creddie shippers should be happy because I'm going to tease the idea that Freddie is going to break up with Sam.

So what if Seddie breaks upf? He could say:


 * Seddie shippers should be happy their relationship got explored, even if it wasn't meant to be.
 * Seddie shippers should be happy Sam and Freddie are as close friends as Carly\Freddie and Sam\Carly.
 * Seddie shippers should be happy because I'm going to tease the idea that Freddie will still be interested in Sam next season.
 * Seddie shippers should be happy because of how much comedy was in this season.

When no-one can say exactly what we should be happy about, Dan can come back later and say he meant anything and that if we say "We thought you meant we could be happy because more Creddie/Seddie will happen" he could turn around and go "That's not what I meant."

Which makes it a lie of omission.

And me I haven't had this view just recently. Dan has done the same thing in the past to Seddie fans. It's just that he eventually decided to do Seddie in iOMG and Seddie fans don't realise that his pandering was pandering because they are assuming he meant to do it all along. That is a very doubtful premise based on Dan's own words (ie, the conversation the writers had about Sam's reaction to iSYL which they did after they decided on the actual plot of it. If they planned Seddie before that they'd already know how Sam would react).

As an aside, you say Dan doesn't do anything because of 'fan reaction'.

Dan just told us that the reason he did iPsycho 2 was because of fan reaction. For some reason he thinks that is what the fans wanted, and he decided to do a sequel because of it. Which makes the idea Dan isn't swayed by his fans wrong