Talk:IOMG/@comment-3201004-20110322140723/@comment-3419321-20110323153516

@ TheWheelie24 :

I've thought it over, and I can't really agree with you. The fact that it takes a long time for a couple to get together (even in a television show) doesn't mean that the relationship has to succeed. Sometimes, it's just the opposite.

On Friends, the characters of Ross and Rachel spent a really long time pining for each other, waiting, fighting, and praying that they would one day become a couple. When they finally did, it was bliss for a while.

As it turned out, however, they had been waiting for so long for this, and gotten their expectations for it built up so much, that the actual relationship was almost doomed to be a disappointment to both of them. The real question was whether they would be mature enough to finally stop expecting each other, and their relationship, to be perfect.

Admittedly, they did wind up together in the series finale, but after being on-again, off-again, on-again, off-again for the better part of ten years, it really could have gone either way.

As you say, Sam and Freddie would likely deeply value their relationship because they had to fight so hard for it. Ultimately, though, what determines the success of a relationship isn't how it started, but how it proceeds after it does.

Sam and Freddie don't know - they can't know - what the day-to-day reality of being in a relationship with each other will be like. There's a lot that can change, a lot that can be unexpected ... and a lot of expectations that can disappoint.

Being in love with somebody does not guarantee success in a relationship.

Trust me, I know.

It may very well be inevitable at this point that Sam and Freddie will become romantically attached in some form, but I don't agree that it necessarily means that they have to be together in the end. If, for no other reason than this :

Obviously, it is possible for people to believe that Sam and Freddie can become a couple at some point, and still wind up apart by the show's end. That being the case, is it not possible that Dan Schneider is one of those people?

Dan Schneider might consider it an inevitability for Sam and Freddie to become a permanent couple ... but if he doesn't, then you can disagree with him. It would be far from the first time that a fan has disagreed with him.

But you can't really say that if Seddie happens at all, it would definitely have to be Seddie in the end, because, ultimately, it is Dan Schneider's opinion on that that matters, not any of ours. And we don't know yet what his view on that is.