Talk:Seddie/@comment-4402317-20111002005346/@comment-4196911-20111002144653

"I really think if Freddie and Sam were in love with one another that they would have never doubted their relationship and stayed together. They also would not be acting this way towards one another in iQ."

You know, considering you're an adult, I find this statement incredibly naive - not only about relationships, but about TV shows like this. The reason why you "don't mention it" is because the show usually doesn't have much continuity - the previous 5 episodes were the exception, not the rule. They can usually be shown in any order. Also, there are more characters in the show than Sam and Freddie, and when the main plot doesn't revolve around them, the writers simply aren't going to make a point of focusing on them again.

People "in love" can break up for all sorts of reasons, and you can't claim the only person you're ever truly "in love" with is the one you're with permanently. I've seen too many real-life examples of people "in love" who have some sort of obstacle between them that is too big to be overcome (at the moment, at least). The real world interferes with peoples' real feelings every day.

"You're not really in love if you can't make the relationship work" is breathtaking in how incredibly wrong and ill-informed that opinion is.

Ultimately, Dan's purpose is to have their relationship on hold so he can keep much of their old dynamic, which helped make the show successful in the first place, while at the same time hinting that it will be revisited later (you could argue the same for iSYL, but there are significant differences). This simultaneously makes his job easier and encourages more people to watch to see what will happen. It's no more complicated than that.