Talk:IGoodbye/@comment-5182426-20120731233606

It is about the right time in November 2012 for iCarly to end. It will be sad when it ends although it wouldn't be good for iCarly to overstay it's welcome. Unfortunately since around halfway through Season 4 I think we all noticed a slight decline in the quality of the episodes. iCarly is suffering (although much less) what Zoey 101 experienced in it's final season.

The quality of iCarly has declined for pretty much 1 reason: Victorious

When Victorious started Dan Schneider instantly liked the show as much as iCarly and started diverting a lot of his attention to the new show. This was fine but a lot of the ideas which could have been put into iCarly were adapted for use in Victorious. Hence why many feel the show is running out of ideas. I don't blame Dan Schneider for this though, I blame Nickelodeon. They soon started promoting the heck out of Victorious and started leaving iCarly on it's own, with minimal promotion.

I feel that Victorious should have started production around now towards the end of iCarly and not in 2010 when iCarly still had very high ratings. Zoey 101 basically collapsed in quality in Season 4 because Dan Schneider and Nickelodeon were commited to iCarly. Drake and Josh did not suffer from the same issue because it's production run stopped in 2007, just when iCarly's had started.

Interestingly enough, iCarly's quality was at it's best from 2008-2010, when it was the sole Dan Schneider show on Nickelodeon! It really wouldn't surprise me if iCarly was still getting 5 million views per episode if it wasn't for Victorious starting (in my opinion) too early.

Instead, the show is practically on it's knees with ratings and whilst Nickelodeon don't care about the ratings, since the show is ending, wouldn't it have been nice if iCarly could have ended on a high like Drake and Josh did? It really wouldn't surprise me if the next iCarly episode doesn't even get 2 million views. That's how little respect Nickelodeon has for the show that basically kept it well known! (Along with SpongeBobSquarePants)

Hopefully these last few episodes will be great and Nickelodeon will promote them so iCarly can end on a high like it's predecessor Drake and Josh! I JUST HOPE SO!