Talk:Seddie/@comment-4257094-20150410203047/@comment-14284535-20150410214805

@Turquoise Phoenix - You are correct on everything. I actually can see your side of this, but I personally disagree. I also know that I could be wrong. That's part of having an opinion.

My theory is an attempt to explain the following:

 In iPilot, why does Carly appear to have no flaws, while Freddie's only flaw is his dweebiness, and Sam has more flaws than all the characters combined? Why is Carly's manipulation of Freddie (e.g., "Please, for me?") never condemned? Why doesn't Carly find Freddie's long-time crush at all disturbing? During the Seddie Arc, why is every problem Sam's fault? Why was all the character development from seasons 1-3, be it Seddie, Creddie, or Cam, suddenly forgotten in iStill Psycho - not coincidentally after DS gets total control of the series? Why doesn't the Seddie Arc grow organically from the characters while the Creddie ending gets a bit of a nudge in every episode from iOpen a Restaurant onward? Why is there no motivation for Freddie to ask Carly if it is too late for her to love him? Why is it that DS goes out of his way to undo the growth in the characters by the finale?</li> </ul>

The answer for me came from the Clarion Writers' Conference at Michigan State University in 1990. The lack of flaws is a sure sign of a "Gary Stu" adolescent fantasy - the perfect female and the male with one flaw that matches the writer's own that he believes prevented them from hooking up. By this formula, Sam the antagonist to the fantasy and a pastiche of those the writer holds responsible for his lack of success with the perfect female. It also explains why he undid all the growth - the series spun out of his control in seasons 1-3, so he threw Seddiers a bone before he got his bone (pun intended). Objectively, he should have realised that the growth in the characters was what made the series so successful and he should have rolled with it.

Honestly, the series should have gone in a more mature (and interesting) direction, such as Carly suddenly realising that Sam saw something in Freddie that she had missed, whence she needs to grow up. Maybe the web show gets too big for the little time they have, so they scale back its frequency in return for bigger and better shows. Sam should try to get out of the family business because she wants Freddie and is willing to change that one thing for him. Freddie maybe thinks he should expand his dating horizons and starts dating someone else. Then Sam and Carly could lament their missed opportunities. Frankly, it could have become ground-breaking and thought-provoking, and flat out great, but DS missed his chance.