User blog comment:CreddieorSeddie/Is dan making an opening for a love triangle?/@comment-3419321-20110428050114/@comment-3419317-20110428052859

My turn, now.

I think it's inevitable that Sam and Freddie are going to have a relationship now. The only real question, in my mind, is when it will happen, and how long it will last.

A great deal has been said on this Wiki about how Sam and Freddie cannot break up because it would be too sad and heartbreaking.

First, I am, once again, going to make the obligatory argument that Dan Schneider has stated in the past that he is reluctant to create an ongoing relationship between the iCarly characters, because of Nickelodeon's habit of airing episodes in the wrong order (especially in reruns), or just flat out airing the wrong episode on a particular date by mistake.

That can be a real headache for episodes with continuing storylines, and looking back on Season 4, it really doesn't seem like Nickelodeon has broken out of that habit. Now, it is possible that his view on that has changed, or that he may make an exception if he feels that the Sam/Freddie relationship is worth the risk ... but considering that he's probably already dreading the mountain of complaints he's going to be getting in June from viewers who thought that they were going to see the resolution to the Sam/Freddie kiss cliffhanger in iParty With Victorious, I wouldn't bet my last dollar on it.

Second, I still believe that it's possible for Dan Schneider to have Sam and Freddie break up, and create a love triangle between Carly, Sam, and Freddie, and still keep things comedic and light-hearted. I really believe that Dan Schneider can pull it off.

I stated my views on this a while back, on Rachim's blog ("Sad Creddiers"), with a little help from my sister. You can read that on her blog, if you wish, but here's the Cliff's Notes version :

Basically, our argument was that if Sam and Freddie broke up, it would probably go something like this :

The episode would end with Sam and Freddie walking away from each other, and we would see close-up shots of both of them looking sad, heartbroken, regretful ... and in the very next episode, they'd be right back to acting relatively normally around each other again. Perhaps a bit quiet, a little awkward for a while, and then Dan Schneider would probably have them make light of it, like so :

Freddie : You're going to the movies tonight?

Sam : [Pointedly] Yeah. We single people have been known to do that from time to time.

Freddie : [Winces] I'm sorry.

[Sam gives Freddie a wry smile and pats him comfortingly on the shoulder.]

All with a soft laugh track playing in the background. I think it would work. In short, they'll be fine.

In real life, you would expect two teenagers in Sam and Freddie's place to take a long time to recover from the pain of this heartbreak. But, then again, in real life, you'd also expect children who were raised by a parent who isn't even responsible enough to feed them to turn out with much deeper issues than Sam and Melanie seem to have.

It's partly because this is a children's show (which means that the creators can take more liberties with realism than they'd be able to with an older audience), and also because of the cartoonish nature of this particular children's show. I think it would actually fit for the characters to "bounce back" from heartbreak a lot more quickly and easily than they would if this happened in real life.

That's how I see it. I could be wrong, of course, and Dan Schneider may have a different view, but this is my opinion for now.