User blog comment:Cartoonprincess/It's *Our* Turn Now/@comment-3419321-20110618053546

I have noticed a trend that kind of bothers me a little. I'm not saying that Cartoonprincess is doing this, but I have seen a few Seddiers who seemed to. The most clear example of it is when people argue something to the effect of :

Even if Sam and Freddie become a couple and stay together for the rest of the series, that's only one season of Seddie, compared to four seasons of Creddie that we've had.

It seems like some people are using two different standards to judge what constitutes a "Creddie moment" and what constitutes a "Seddie moment" :

For Seddie, they only count the actual romantic scenes - iKiss, iOMG, the upcoming story arc, and the relationship to follow (if it happens).

But for Creddie, they count everything - not just iSaved Your Life or the slow dance in iSpeed Date, but also the unrequited crush and the friendship.

This does not seem fair to me. If you're going to count Carly and Freddie's friendship moments as "Creddie," wouldn't you also have to count episodes like iFix A Pop Star for Seddie? If friendship counts, then Seddie has gotten at least 2-3 seasons already, maybe more.

Also ... I often hear people say that the Seddiers have waited four years for this. But, to be fair, the Creddiers have been waiting, too. It's not like the Seddiers spent four seasons waiting for Seddie to happen, while the Creddiers spent all that time enjoying Creddie already happening. It wasn't like that at all.

The Creddiers spent two and a half years waiting and hoping for Carly to respond to Freddie's affection, and for the two of them to become a couple. After iSaved Your Life, the Creddiers then spent the next year and a half waiting to find out if the love that Carly seemed to show for Freddie in that episode was real or not.

(The worst part of it, I think, is that some folks are now arguing that the lack of a resolution to that actually was the resolution. Not a very satisfying ending, in my opinion.)

I've argued this point before - the unrequited crush didn't constitute Creddie happening. In fact, if anything, watching Freddie pining for Carly would have only fueled the Creddiers' longing to see Carly finally return his affection. The unrequited crush was, at most, buildup to a romance, not romance itself.

Yes, the Seddiers have been waiting for four years for this. But let us not forget that the Creddiers have been waiting for just as long.