Talk:Seddie/@comment-27087456-20160717191106/@comment-14284535-20160721015927

Nick's execs were the stooooooopidest people in how they handled Jennette. For some inexplicable reason, they thought that the way to work around all the tension on the set (Jennette, Ariana, and Jenentte vs. Ariana) was to relentlessly produce 40 episodes and then rig the KCA's for Ariana*.

The possibility of rectifying all the gaffes in iCarly and S&C, particularly correcting how much the Freddie character was undermined, could have made for a great story**. Those of you who read it can recall that I had a grand plan to work through all of iCarly, Victorious, and S&C, whence I put the iCarly part into a story on fanfiction.net. I had a prologue with Jade going to commiserate with Sam because Tori and Beck go on their first (and only) date; it was to set up for everyone to be single by the time Melanie and Carly showed up, but I omitted it.


 * Remember that I computed the odds of Ariana winning that given the known figures, server configuration, service speed, etc., at far less than 1 in 1,000,00.  And when I did the computation for Nick trolls trying to convince us that Jennette was wrong about her belief, whence I quoted the Central Limit Theorem, the Poisson Distribution, Queueing Theory, and a Monte Carlo simulation, you might recall that we never saw those Jennette-hating-baiting trolls again.  That was fun.

** That's aside from the 10 realistic stories that should have been written that covered just the law and regulations related to the premise -- plus 5 more I came up with to establish a few semi-regular clients so that the money would be steady. People really liked the "Carly, Sam, and Freddie at 8" idea: Sam would be telling an 8 year old version of herself that she could regret picking on the 8 year old version of Freddie and fall in love with him. And all that took was  30 minutes of research for my first fanfic in 25 years; I didn't need to do any dumpster diving for for unbelievably weak premises to supplement unused iCarly and Victorious stories.