Talk:Seddie/@comment-3027660-20120516142121/@comment-4196911-20120517111412

"thats exactly what i think too but there's still a loop hole. what about the Creddiers, so what?Dan just egged then on to ruin it for them? that wont be fair either"

Right, but Dan doesn't care about "fair", he cares about making it interesting so people will watch for as long as possible.

No matter what he does, someone's going to be disappointed. The whole point of ship-teasing is so that both sides will be "egged on", so someone will then always feel like things were ruined in the end. He either picks one ship or he picks neither and disappoints nearly everyone. There's no way around it.

One thing that drives me crazy is the comment "Well, if Dan wasn't going to do Creddie, what was the point of Freddie crushing on Carly all that time?" These people act as if boy-with-crush-eventually-gets-the-girl is the only way you can tell a story on TV. It's not. Another very common storytelling device is that a boy knows two girls who are very different. He thinks he's in love with one of them, but it takes him a long time to figure out that he's really supposed to be with the other one. That kind of story is interesting because it goes against the boy's expectations of what he thinks he wants. It's very common. There are a ton of shows and movies that have done this, and one that happens to pop into my head (just as an example) was Reality Bites, where Winona Ryder's character thought she was supposed to be with normal, safe Ben Stiller, but she ended up with difficult and crazy Ethan Hawke instead. There are a million other examples, too.

Therefore, Creddie could still be just a "tease" that was never really supposed to end up happening - and it could still make sense for Dan to put Freddie's crush on Carly in the show just to create interest and have something unexpected happen with Sam instead.

So it still makes sense for Dan to tease both competing ships, even if his so-called plan is for Freddie to end up with only one of them - and even if he's known that in his own mind for a long time. It's not about "fair" - he can't make everybody happy without the show being either boring or making the characters seem ridiculous, and I don't think he'll do either of those things.

However Dan ends the show, I honestly think nobody is going to feel like the characters were ruined. You can still be disappointed if your ship doesn't happen, but that's different.