Talk:Seddie/@comment-24310730-20140302173642

I don't believe for a second that "creddie" was always the plan for Dan. To be frank, I don't think Dan HAD a plan and that was his problem. He was able to move so fluidly between the two ships because he didn't have a plan and likely didn't have a preference. He just followed his whim at any given moment.

Frankly, if creddie had been the plan all along, he could have done a MUCH better job of developing it. The point cannot be stressed enough that there were so many major storylines that were given to seddie that would have made far more sense to be given to creddie if that had been Dan's plan all along. How easy would it have been for Dan to have Carly kiss Freddie in iKiss instead of Sam, thus laying the groundwork for a realization of feelings on Carly's part? How easy would it have been for Dan to have given seddie one episode and then given creddie an arc? How easy would it have been for Dan to have Carly & Freddie exchange 'I love you's? If creddie had been Dan's plan all along, he would not have given arguably the biggest romantic moments of the show to seddie. Freddie's first kiss? Sam. The first (and only) girl Freddie exhanges I love you with? Sam. The only girl Freddie actually initiates a kiss with? Sam. Those are pretty big bones to throw for the sake of shutting up a section of the fanbase in my opinion. (Also, as was previously mentioned regarding iKiss, the seddie fandom was not even a thing that really existed, so to say that Dan made that episode to please seddie shippers is completely innacurate.)

Now, this is not to say that Dan wasn't just trying to pander to seddiers with the arc. He was. No doubt about it. It was pandering at it's finest.

But, I don't think that while he was doing that he was just bidding his time until he could go back to his real "plan" of creddie.

There are so many inconsistencies on both sides (Freddie's flip flopping affections, Carly's continual rejections of Freddie even in the final episode before suddenly kissing him, etc) that make it very clear that Dan didn't have a plan or an ultimate ship goal. He followed his whims in the beggining and by the end was simply trying to pander to both sides.