Talk:Seddie/@comment-3180503-20150129213240/@comment-24341760-20150129225738

The show became too aware of itself and started to become too "gimmicky." Every week was some kind of "stunt" episode - they go to space! They find Bigfoot! They go to Webicon! CARLY gets a new room! It wasn't a show about high school friends anymore, it was a show about these celebrities and the cool celebrity things they got to do, which is hard to relate to and not funny. I think this was owing in large part to Victorious, and the fact that they couldn't use the school set anymore, and also just because the show go so popular Dan was tempted to constantly try to outdo himself. Interestingly, this is also what I didn't like about the first season, before the good writers took over and Seddie/interpersonal stories started to dominate. It's hard to remember, but the first half of the first season was just ideas Dan must've come up with even before the show began, which can all be summed up in the concept of the show itself, "girl gets a webshow," (like "what if they get a shoe endorsement deal," or "what if they break a world record," or "what if they get a TV show," etc.). These shows focused on the celebrity/webshow aspect and were much less character-driven, probably because the characters hadn't had time to develop yet. This is when the show comes closest to a generic "attractive Disney kids shouting and smiling" show, it's hard to watch if you're not 12. But by Season 2-3, as the actors grew to define their roles, and as they hired actual good adult sitcom writers other than Dan, the show became more of a real, adult sitcom, "a show about nothing," where they sat around and played off each other and got into silly, but relatable, school situations. Then, Dan got rid of those writers, quickly dispatched the Seddie relationship with an arc that purposely didn't work, and just started to focus again on the webshow stuff he was just dying to explore.