User blog comment:Cartoonprincess/Was The Arc a Mistake?/@comment-1976613-20110820160644

Umm...Cartoon, you know I think you're awesome but I don't agree with this at all. Dan doesn't really let what the fans want influence him at all, he does what he wants to do and he'll do it his way no matter what everyone says. When he leaked that there was going to be an arc happening after iSYL aired the "Creddie" shippers went nuts on him, but that didn't stop him from writing the episodes. Shipping is basically the least important part of a show. Yes I agree with the fact that iSAFW is now deemed to be a pointless slap in the face to fans, but it's his show, not the fans', and yes I think 5 is a little excessive but I'd rather see a beginning middle and end rather than a beginning middle and drop off. Plus, these episodes aren't totally based on Sam and Freddie, Carly had a huge role in iLMM, she's gonna have a huge role in iDS&F (she was in the promo more than they where!) Plus iLMM only got 5.5 million viewers. That's a series low for him, I think viewers are the last things he had on his mind when he was making the show, since he knows it's been picked up again afterwords, he wants to make the show how he wants to.