Talk:Seddie/@comment-4184884-20120531150439/@comment-4196911-20120531160758

Spot on.

Also, Sam is a main character who Dan wants you to like and have sympathy for. She's not a villain to be defeated by the other characters.

So if you set her up as the unlucky-in-love girl who is/was secretly in love with Freddie and has always hated the idea of Freddie and Carly together, you pay that off.

You don't go the other way and pair up Freddie with a girl who has (apparently) never had legitimately romantic feelings for him - and has no trouble finding guys to date.

Carly isn't left out in the cold if Seddie happens. She encouraged the idea and bent over backwards to make it happen the first time. Carly's string of boyfriends is not designed to be leading up to : "All these Mr. Wrong's are telling me I should be with Freddie instead." Her boyfriends (who don't last) are directly related to the structure of the show - you can't give the main character a permanent boyfriend unless you want to mess with the dynamic and add a whole new character - but you do want her to date because it allows you to come up with a string of funny plots. You just can't do the permanent boyfriend-thing for Carly until you're very close to the end of the show - if at all.