Talk:Seddie/@comment-3180503-20150309155407/@comment-3180503-20150309192059

@Starlitchica Completely agreed. Like many, I intially shipped Creddie because it was the default ship and my 12 year old brain didn't look deeper into things. However, even then, I grew increasingly annoyed at how Carly would continuously turn him down and not show the slightest hint of reciprocating the feelings.

As we've discussed in the past, there were many opportunities for Carly to realize she loved Freddie. There was iKiss, iSpeed Date, iSaved Your Life and even smaller moments within episodes like iLike Jake, iStage an Intervention, iDate a Bad Boy and so on. There was plenty of time and room to build a foundation for Creddie.

Hell, you would think that, with Carly's shallowness, she would be all in as soon as Freddie's voice dropped but, of course, it was Sam who noticed it and not Carly.

And that's precisely it. Instead of taking the time to actually develop Creddie into something believable (and not something that was cheaply put together at the last possible moment), they relegated all of that development to Seddie. Thus, that was the ship we all fell in love with.

(This isn't even taking into account the insane chemistry Jennette and Nathan had; it also happened to have great writing to back it up.)

Another aspect of Seddie that made it so appealing was the fact that Sam was the underdog. We can all relate to being the one person who's constantly being passed over for someone else, so we sympathized for Sam on a deep, personal level. We all wanted desperately for Freddie to wake up and realize that the one he truly wanted was right there in front of his "big, stupid face" all along. This is why I constantly point out that they should have focused more on Freddie's feelings during the arc. They made it seem as if he merely pitied her or was settling for her until Carly came around.

@Cooldog You bring up a really good point in your first paragraph. Once Dan actually realized there was a rivalry, he exploited the hell (and subsequently took all the enjoyment) out of it.