User blog comment:Sockstar1/Overconfidence and misconceptions/@comment-3276102-20110517230103

Some folks believe that iOMG would be pointless, or that Dan Schneider wouldn't have created that episode, if Sam wasn't actually in love with Freddie.

I can't really agree. Considering how much their relationship has developed over the past four years, from outright hostility to the close friendship that they have now ...

I think that for Sam to reveal that she has feelings for Freddie, and wants to be more than "just friends" with him, would be a major development even if she isn't actually "in love" with him - yet.

She could still fall in love with him later.

Also, to be clear, I don't think that nobody here is saying that Sam can't be in love with Freddie. They're saying that it's not a certainty that she is.