User blog comment:SeddieLove4ever/When Sam has started to love Freddie?/@comment-3276102-20110617180023

I actually just posted my thoughts on the Seddie page, regarding Sam's feelings toward Freddie :

The more I think about it, the more I think that Sam's hostility toward Freddie was genuine at first ... but it wasn't really him, personally, that she disliked.

Sam didn't even really know Freddie yet. What she knew was that he was a tech geek, a Galaxy Wars fan - exactly the kind of person Sam loved making fun of.

My theory is that the real problem, at first, was that Sam never gave Freddie a chance. She started picking on him right away because he was a nerd, in her eyes, and then, naturally, Freddie was hostile to her in return.

If Sam had only given Freddie a chance, their relationship up until now might have happened very differently.

After they started working on iCarly together, and hanging out, they started to get to know each other, and while they wouldn't admit it, they started to like each other (at least as friends, and then later as more than that). But, as Dan Schneider indicated, they had gotten so deeply into this game of pretending to hate each other that they were afraid to stop playing it.

Basically, it was like, "What if I try to stop the fighting, and he/she laughs in my face and just keeps right on going?" Neither one of them wanted to make the first move, because neither wanted to get hurt.

That's what I think, anyway.

As for when exactly Sam started liking Freddie, I'm inclined to agree that it was after "iKiss." After the kiss, Sam looked to me like she was very confused, because she didn't feel at all the way she thought she would after kissing Freddie. She probably spent a long time trying to sort out how she felt about Freddie, and finally realized the truth around "iSpeed Date."