Talk:Seddie/@comment-3092491-20110521033916

As far as being in love with someone within the main trio Sam's love has been set up with her having the most to lose. Sam's love for Freddie has been revealed in iOMG after having a subtle build up over a few seasons and several key episodes, where the plot was her being "in love" with someone and that being a big deal, but her being too shy to make a move. After a lot of fussing she ends up going off by herself and Freddie comes to talk to her about how she should take a chance. In a climatic moment she kisses Freddie out of the blue, someone she is friends with, revealing her feelings for him...something completely shocking and disrupting of the dynamic of "hate" they had. She looks terrified afterwards and Freddie is shocked.

Compare that to Carly being in love with Freddie or Freddie being in love with Carly....Freddie's crush on Carly was portrayed from the beginning as exactly that - a crush. It was largely played for laughs and he had no qualms about making it known. Carly constantly shot him down and he lived on and their friendship stayed strong. It was portrayed as childish infatuation for the most of the first and second season and began to fade significantly into the background. When Carly was "in love" with Freddie it was something that came out of the blue, with her already aware of how Freddie felt about her, and having special surrounding circumstances of Freddie having just saved her life. The fact that she felt differently about him because he'd saved her life was played up and eventually her love was said to just be hero-worship and left there without much mess involved.