User blog comment:The Sam Puckett/Seddie/Creddie: Which Was Planned From the Start?/@comment-2208586-20110710143228

I don't think that a ship was meant to happen at the beginning.

I think that Dan solved it that way: He'll try out everything. He'll watch out what the fans like best, and then he'll use it.

In iPilot he started off with Creddie - as you said, Freddie's stalker crush on Carly.

And he always tried out Seddie and Creddie to see the reactions of fans.

I think at the beginning he though of a similar storyline like Zoey101 - the guy has a crush on the girl from the very beginning and after years and years, he finally gets her - but, to make more laughs out of this whole thing, he added Freddie's "stalker" personality and Carly knowing he loved, correct me, liked her.

But then he looked at the whole thing and said to himself: "Let's see, what would people think of SAM and Freddie?"

With that, the blog with the fortune cookie was created - but it didn't have to mean ANYTHING. At the end, Brad could be a dork too. Or he could just put one into the scene, as easily as he put in other guys, like Steven, Pete, Cort, Brad, Adam and so on - many to count, aren't they? Or, he could just make this not happen, fortune cookies don't tell the truth in most cases, do they?

In the second season Creddie was STILL the bigger ship for the fans. At least in the first half. Some people still thought that Sam and Freddie still hated each other, and only those who payed attention closely could see that they actually didn't - like shown in iWill Date Freddie, as you said yourself.

The "hate" (which wasn't really any) was created for laughs at the beginning, just like Freddie's stalker personality - some good ideas mixed together for a comedy show. Then, in iKiss, Dan finally thought of breaking the line, and showing those viewers who didn't pay that muich attention to the Sam/Freddie interaction that there was a possibility for that one ship from whom many people didn't even know that it existed as a ship, as in, relationship - Seddie.

After iKiss, the amount of Seddie shippers grew extremely. Then there was that episode which showed the reality to those who still didn't believe that Sam and Freddie didn't hate each other - iReunite With Missy.

Then he added iThink They Kissed, to brighten the Seddie shippers, who grew and grew all of a sudden, and from a small amount the Seddiers got even more than Creddiers.

And then there was iSpeed Date. He wasn't sure if he should go into the Seddie or Creddie direction. So he just made an episode for both: There has to be something behind it that Carly is willing to dance with Freddie, and she may even feel something for him. And Sam coming in and looking so... Heartbroken. She had to feel something too.

And that continued with iSaved Your Life. He wanted to show people a little sneak peek of how it would be if Creddie was endgame - and as smart as he was, he added Sam convincing him to break up with Carly - WHY did Sam care that much? Why did the thought of them being together make her "puke up blood"? New hints for Seddiers.

And then there was iOMG. It didn't came all of a sudden, the hints in the previous season were A LOT, and especially iSpeed Date showed us that. And, I gotta say that all three actors, Miranda Cosgrove, Jennette McCurdy, and Nathan Kress, really did an incredible job in the last scene. The way all three of them looked shocked - even Sam. It looked so real. The way Sam looked at his lips before she kissed him, the way she looked upset and angry at the beginning... The way Freddie talked to her, the way Carly watched them... It was all acted so well.

NOTHING was planned. Dan just did what he thought the fans would like best.