Talk:Seddie/@comment-3180503-20150129213240/@comment-14284535-20150130231659

Passionate Seddier45 brings up an excellent point - the reason for iCarly's success and its continued viewership (e.g., for those who check the ratings, iCarly gets more viewers than a lot of shows on Disney and Nick!) is that it can be enjoyed for people at different ages and different perceptions of what the characters are and mean. It should surprise no one that, hands down, seasons 1-3 get the highest ratings and the consensus top episodes get the highest from those.

I as an adult can see why my former co-workers told me that they kept with it to the end even though her kids stopped watching iCarly because it wasn't cool any more for their grades. Old friends of mine took to watching it with their kids because I told them that they should be aware of what the show is teaching them and I told them that it was passable for an adult; they are very grateful that I thought of this and that they can talk to their kids better. They are like me - they don't like many episodes, but they can bear to watch most of them and now understand what their kids are learning. And, suprise, surprise, they agree that once you get to season 4, the series loses something organic that was realistic. They also agree with me that with the exception of the Seddie Arc and a few other episodes, the show turns into a shadow of its former self. (Interestingly, older parents complain more about Freddie than Sam; it seems we view Sam's new seriousness as the hard knocks of maturing and her fear of the impending doom of losing Freddie.  Even the Creddiers I know hated how Sam got treated in iGoodbye.)

The way to see what happened is that season 1-3 are for the kid in all of us, like Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back - Return of the Jedi, but seasons 4-7 are for the amusement of the creator and what he wanted to preach at kids, just like The Phantom Menace - Attack of Jim Rome's Listeners - Revenge of the Sith.