Talk:Seddie/@comment-33022407-20170903165849

I was such an intense Sam/Freddie shipper back in iCarly's heyday. But I felt that the way the ships ended up playing out in the final seasons was just gross.

I guess my problem was that in my own head I envisioned actual character growth, and it didn't happen. Instead, the love triangle was milked to its fullest extent at the expense of sacrificing character integrity. I wanted the relationships between all the characters to feel authentic. I think the actors really shown when the scripts were well-written. I remember being just blown away by Jennette's performance in iOMG, for example: that episode highlighted Sam's insecurities and her fears and Jennette just played it so well. The overheated passion in the way she just grabbed Freddie and kissed him, and then her fear afterwards - all of it just felt very genuine and gripping to me. What I wanted was for that storyline to continue on, for the audience to see Sam become more open and less defensive, for Freddie to grow up and move on from his crush on Carly. We didn't really get to see any of that. We just saw characters that yo-yoed and bounced and did mean things to each other for comic effect.

My expectations were probably too high for a Nickelodeon show to begin with, but Dan absolutely didn't have to keep swinging back and forth between Seddie and Freddie. He did it because he thought that watching the "ship battle" rattle on and providing no real ending was funny, and because he thought it would keep ratings high. Freddie ended up looking like more of a jerk than anything else, in my opinion. Like, if I could have my way, this Game Shakers episode would end with someone explaining that Freddie didn't deserve either one of the girls, lol.