User blog comment:CreddieLuv4eva/"Is it too late for you to love me?" Analysis Blog/@comment-3247345-20120624051727

You're not going to like what I have to say, but you asked for Seddier's opinion on the Seddie page, so here it goes.

First I'll talk about what what's going on in the show, then I'll talk about what Dan's doing.

On the show Freddie thinks Sam is over him, so he's trying to get over her. Going after Carly seems to be his chosen method of that. In a way it makes sense because of that crush he had on her in the begining. Some people say this makes Carly "plan B". In a sense that's true but at this point dating Carly would be a means to end rather the end itself. The end here would be getting over Sam. So it's not like Freddie is saying "I can't have Sam so I want Carly". He's just thinking that he might be able to get over Sam by dating Carly. As a Seddier I don't like this, but it's really trivial compared to what annoyed me most in iOAR. You could see how hurt Sam was by the fact he was going after Carly again. She's probably asking herself whether he truly loved her or if he's just like every other jerk that she's dealt with in her life. Given the fanwar that erupted after iOAR it's clear that some (not all) Creddie shippers don't care about how Sam feels (or even wish her harm) as long as Creddie happens. Some tried to get around how Sam felt by saying she wasn't hurt. While it's obviously better than saying they don't care if Sam is miserable it's ignoring the facts. Back when the episode aired it wasn't clear if Freddie was trying to hurt Sam on purpose (if he thought about it he would have figured out it would hurt her but it wasn't clear if he thought about it). But iPear Store removed all doubt that he's deliberately trying to treat her like crap. Most of the explanation for this involves what Dan is doing, but as far as the show goes he's just being a jerk to try to get over Sam. I guess my main point here is that Freddie is trying to get over Sam by being absolute jerk to her. The reason he's not using less despicable methods to get over her can only be explained by what Dan's doing, so I'll address that now.

Dan has a history of using Creddie to help Seddie. iSpeed Date is the first time he did that. In his fun facts he emphasized that the most important part of the last scene was the look on Sam's face. While iSYL wasn't directly leveraged to give Seddie a boost, we did learn that Creddie makes Sam want to "puke up blood". Then there was iOAR. This is different. He told Sam he love her then he went after he best friend. Really this is Dan just trying to stir up drama in the fandom. The fanwar that this episode caused shows that he succeeded. So why is Dan having Freddie act like such a jerk, and only to Sam? The answer is that he wants to stir up drama in the fandom. How do you piss off a group of shippers the most? Torment their favorite character. Make her wonder if the person she loved ever truly loved her. He's doing that to Sam on iCarly and he did that to Jade in Tori Goes Platinum on Victorious. It appears Dan has run out of ideas so he's resorted to pissing off the shippers by torturing the fan favorite. It's really a cheap tactic, but Dan has shown he's not above it in both iCarly and Victorious. In short, Dan's being a troll. He's trying to agitate the fanbase and he's resorted to cheap tactics to do so.