User blog comment:XxiOMGxx/Why did Dan choose seddie?/@comment-4184884-20110824033346

I do think that there have been hints towards seddie for quite a while now, so it's rather mind-boggling to me at times when I hear people say "it was too sudden/unrealistic/before iOMG they hated each other". I guess it all goes back to differing perceptions, but I still feel that there are many moments, admittedly subtle at times, that definitely seem indicative of a possible Seddie relationship. Specific lines like the "they say when a girl picks on a guy" or specific shots like Sam's sad look in iWin a date, after Freddie says he's in love with Carly. It's a lot of little things like that that built up over time and, in my opinion, make seddie the very opposite of sudden or rushed. It's a relationship 4 seasons in the making. This has been building up for quite sometime. I understand that everyone's perceptions and interpretations are different. I understand that if you never saw these seddie moments or picked up on them or chose to interpret them differently that you would see Seddie as rushed and illogical. That said, I also think you were presumably not viewing the Seddie relationship from the viewpoint that Dan intended you to (this is one of the reasons I find it rather presumptous when fans feel the need to rant about how Dan clearly doesn't know his characters and is making them out of character and ruining them and throwing away 4 seasons of previous work. Maybe he's not. Maybe you just didn't view things the way Dan was intending you to? Which is you're right of course, but it's rather presumptous to call the creator of the characters wrong, no?)

Also, I think that famously creddie episodes such as iSD and iSYL needed to happen for Seddie to happen. Freddie needed to have Carly to realize that his feelings for her were just a school boy's crush and that they didn't work in a romantic relationship. Freddie needed to realize and accept that in order to have a relationship with Sam. I think iSD in particular was a stepping stone for Seddie. It's in that episode that we, the audience, learn just how much Sam likes Freddie. We realize this is a lot bigger deal for her than we may have noticed earlier. It's also a real turning point for Creddie admittedly. That is the episode where Dan could have TRULY made Creddie happen, without any guise of hero worship. As they danced, Dan could have had Freddie and Carly kiss. It would have been an indication of Carly having feelings for Freddie that were real. Then the whole thing could have progressed from there with them coming to terms with their feelings for one another and Carly finally realizing Freddie was the one for her. Dan could have done that. He could have made Creddie work. But he didn't. Instead he makes a scene that could have been a turning point for creddie, into a scene all about Sam and her feelings and only gets Freddie and Carly together under the guise of hero worship. That says a lot.

The seddie for ratings argument makes no sense, as iSYL had the highest ratings of almost any iCarly episode (and most people see it as a creddie episdoe.) If this was a grab for ratings he'd have pulled a serious long term creddie by now.

And it completely baffles me when people actually believe that Sam and/or Freddie really hated one another or just kissed in iKiss to get it over with or simply tolerate one another or whatever other beliefs some people seem to hold about their relationship. The kiss thing in particular is interesting to me. Freddie was in "love" with Carly. He'd never kissed anyone. Carly could have been his first kiss...but she wasn't. Dan did that for a reason. Dan included Sam in all of this for a reason. Simply saying "oh they hate eachother, they said so", is so wrong and, in my opinion, just an incorrect viewing of that entire moment and their entire relationship.

Sorry for the rant...haha