User blog comment:FearlessStatic/Creddie & Rily: 2 BFF Ships Scorned?/@comment-4184884-20110725072645

I actually watched this show back in the day and I always rooted for Ray and his crush on Lily, which is odd considering the BFF ship of that nature really isn't my typical thing. (I'm more of a love/hate relationship fan.) Anyways, I have to agree that, while it was great they got together, the relationship was still kind of tainted. Not to mention it was like "woo...they got together at the last minute and the show is over. Great..."

I know my viewpoint is probably a little...tainted, as I do ship Seddie, but I agree that having an extended Seddie relationship (mainly one that lasts past the arc and into the final season, then breaking up) would do Creddie a horrible disservice and really cheapen the relationship. Mainly because Sam & Freddie would have, at that point, built this relationship and gotten the audience rather invested/interested/ or at the very least, used to them as a couple. There would be a handful of episodes convincing the audience that they're a couple who very much likes one another and then the writers would have to spend all of this time undoing that (making you wonder why they bothered at all) and proving to the audience that Sam was truly over Freddie and okay with Carly dating him. Which to be done even somewhat decently would easily take the rest of the series and then you'd get .5 seconds of them as a couple. It'd just be a gigantic mess and, at least in my opinion, too complicated for a children's comedy.

If/when Sam & Freddie break-up, assuming they last past the arc, I assume it will only be to set up a no-ship ending for the trio. I'm of the thought that anything can happen and you should never put your cart before your horse so to speak, but logically taking into account the type of show this is, the presumed time remaining until the show's end, etc, there really is only a handful of ways that Seddie could reasonably act as a segue to Creddie without tainting it any. And that basically consists of Sam & Freddie not lasting the arc (or even ever really being official) or breaking up very very soon after. Otherwise you've got a gigantic whole to dig yourself out of, a lot backtracking to do, and a somewhat tainted relationship.

Great blog! :)