User blog comment:IEmbargo/iCarly - What Do You Think?/@comment-14284535-20140319001053

Thanks for your replies, StarShine82093, Passionate Seddie45, and Cartoonprincess. I am going to deal with some common areas between all the posts first. Over the next few days, I will reply to specific issues in your messages individually.

My belief in Creddie being the plan all along just got a boost after I just watched "iLove You" again. I noticed that each time Carly tells Spencer and his GF what is wrong with them dating, she looks at Sam and Freddie just beforehand. This looks like Dan Schneider is speaking through Carly while Sam and Freddie represent Seddiers.

To top it off, every episode after iLove You has at least one moment to show a disconnect between Sam and Freddie and/or show the fated connection between Carly and Freddie. (Examples: Sam can't comfort Freddie in iBalls, Carly has sympathy for T-Bo and Freddie in iGet Banned.) That's aside from the Seddie arc getting no set-up and Creddie getting nudges every episode. I think the shippers noticed: Creddiers were flat out smug when they saw the conflicting teasers for iGoodbye while Seddiers were terrified. You read the Creddie subtext whether you wanted to believe it or not.

I refuse to believe that is an accident - just as I refuse to believe that everybody involved in the production are so stupid as not to recognise how Freddie looks when he celebrates after Carly kisses him and I refuse to believe that the casting of Freddie clones in Miranda Cosgrove' videos is an accident. They run a multi-billion dollar company over there. They don't make money my not making these elementary decisions by accident.

If Dan Schneider really wanted to make sure that you interpreted the Creddie kiss as a mere goodbye kiss, he would have made sure it got into the broadcast. The episode is rather padded; it would have been easy enough to edit a few seconds out of another scene to make that clear. Even if it weren't, he could edit something too long and then time compress it by 1% so that no one would notice. But he didn't.

Because you both mentioned it, I always imagined that by season 4, Freddie lets Sam push him around - he clearly has the upper body strength to stop her, but he never does. But instead, Dan Schneider implies abuse in iCan't Take It. So because he tacitly reinforces it, I assume that it is abusive. Similarly, I assume that Carly has taken Freddie's affection for granted and that Freddie is such a loser that all he needs is Carly to show interest in him for him to forget that he asked somebody else out.

I HATE that message with a passion. What's worse is that my nieces and nephews tell me that it both ends of that equation are playing out more often in schools: kids waiting for the person to "see the light" because they are "meant to be" and others taking someone's affection for granted. Like I said before, I think you underestimate the influence of the series.

More later, everyone.