User blog comment:Eric the Grape/Misconceptions about the Seddie ship and its fans/@comment-2032682-20110328100044/@comment-3513755-20110328213806

"That's elementary school behaviour and something kids grow out of as they become teenagers."

Nope. I saw that all over the place in high school. Did it myself, actually. It's the type of people who are insecure that tend to use it. I was *supremely* insecure, and I had a *huge* crush on one of my guy friends. So what did I do? I argued with him. Constantly. If I thought he had a crush on a different girl? I argued with him MORE. I didn't think I could compete with other girls as far as being interesting and smart and pretty went, so I got his attention in the one way I *could* (I thought) get his attention. If he was bickering with me, then he was at least paying attention to me. I'd poke at him and throw things at him and find any excuse I could at all to start a fight just so he'd look my direction. This went on for YEARS. All of high school, in fact.

On iCarly everything is ramped Up To Eleven because it's *funny*. Personalities, situations, gags, everything. A real life Sam and Freddie would be more like the situation I just described. In real life a girl Jennette's size wouldn't be able to pin down a full-grown man or lift a guy as big as Nathan over her shoulder anyway. I know the guy I liked was way stronger than me, and I'd say we had a size difference about relative to Sam and Freddie (s4 S/F, not s1).

Pretty much every character in every work of fiction ever is a caricature of some sort. I was always told that, when creating characters, you base them in reality and then completely over-inflate and overexaggerate all of their qualities and all of their flaws. If you don't, they just turn out flat. And I've found, even just writing over-inflated characters, they are so much more fun and relate-able (or hate-able!) that way.