User blog comment:XHappilyNeverAfterx3/There's a difference between like and love....and Freddie finally realized that/@comment-4402317-20111013031300/@comment-4196911-20111013032641

Sort of. Dan said there were a "couple of kiss moments" in the episode that he cut. That's really all we know. It seems obvious Carly was supposed to kiss Freddie, but it also seems like she was supposed to kiss Austin too, and she grew to hate his guts as the night wore on. Like I said earlier, it's confusing, and we aren't really sure what the episode was supposed to look like. I don't think Freddie was trying to put a romantic move on Carly at the end of iSD, even though I think he still felt he had feelings for her at the time.

That being said, Freddie uses the word "love" during the first two seasons in regards to Carly, and unlike Carly, he doesn't throw the word around easily. I take him at his word. Though I think his feelings have clearly faded and moved elsewhere since iSYL. Deliberately written that way, in my opinion.

I certainly want to avoid a protracted discussion about was it "real" love, or just "sort-of" love, or was he too young to know what it meant, or whatever. That's all open to individual interpretation.