User blog comment:Heeelllooo/Analysis: iLove You and Their Breakup/@comment-3247345-20120105054244

I agree with most of what you said. Personally, I think Dan kind of was being a tease. He still got our hopes up and then crushed them. I think he broke them up so he could return thinngs to the way they were so he wouldn't have to change the dynamics of the main characters' relationships. My guess is there will be no more shipping until Seddie happens at the end. I'm fine with that. That said, a major change in the dynamics would not be necessary for Seddie. For Creddie it would. For Seddie, the relationship could go on in the background while the main focus was comdey. Like you said, Josh and Mindy were together but whole show didn't all the sudden revolve around that relationship. He devoted a few episodes to it but kept the focus on comedy. He would have done well to repeat that on iCarly. I think he could have made a few minor changes to the scene so we could keep the development and the "I love you" parts but kept them together. Even though I think Dan shouldn't have broke them up, I have confidence Seddie is endgame. On the bright side we will get to see them get back together and end up happy in the end. For Dan's part, he can keep stringing the Creddie shippers along and keep the options open to attract all viewers for iCarly's last season. If they had to break up, it could have been done worse. The breakup scene was very well done. Since they had to breakup Seddie, I'm glad they did it the way they did. One last thing. I remember when people thought that they may not have broken up. I kept telling people that they did. People come up with complicated senarios to lead them where thet want to go. I always found that the simplest explanation is usually the correct one, unless there's strong evidence to the contrary. The simple explanation is that they did break up, and it turns out I was right. I don't know why people got their hopes up on a tiny possibility that they chose not to break up at midnight. The breakup was hard on everyone. I don't know why people made it harder on themselves by getting their hopes up again.