Talk:Seddie/@comment-4184884-20110725183734/@comment-3419321-20110726012238

@ XxArchnemesisxx :

I understand what you were saying earlier, and to some extent, I actually agree with you.

Although ... I would point out that in order for "teasing" the audience to be effective, a show also has to follow through at least sometimes, and actually give the fans what they're hoping for. When a show puts out too many teases that turn out to be disappointments, the teasing will become ineffective because the audience will no longer trust it.

It will also rapidly drain the audience's goodwill toward the show. In the past couple of months, even some Seddie shippers have expressed sympathy for the Creddiers, arguing that the two genuinely romantic episodes that they've gotten (iSaved Your Life and the slow dance in iSpeed Date) aren't really enough to justify all of the teasing that Dan Schneider has done over the past four years.

With that said ... The frustration that I was referring to in my earlier post wasn't really about the teasing itself, but the fact that Dan Schneider added it to his blogs as much as several days after the fact.

Again, in order for a tease to be effective, the audience has to be able to believe that what they're hoping for can actually happen. In this case, anybody who read Dan Schneider's blog in the week after he posted it would know that he added that line as an afterthought, which (1) pretty much renders the tease useless, and (2) is rather insulting to the fans, that he would expect them to believe in something so transparent.

As a result, the Creddie shippers in general were not, in fact, placated by the edit, and were more upset by it than anything else. A fair number of neutral and Seddie shippers, as well, agreed that it was patronizing, and further argued that if Dan Schneider is going to say something, he should stand by it instead of back-pedalling the way he did.