User blog comment:TenCents/iOMG: Is It Final?/@comment-4509465-20110418143417/@comment-3419317-20110418200337

@ MaryanHPotterFan98 :

You may be right.

For the record, I still think (as I've said elsewhere) that it's possible for Dan Schneider to put off making Sam and Freddie a couple, to have them break up, or create a love triangle with Carly, and still keep things comedic and light-hearted. I really believe he could pull it off.

But, for the moment, let's assume that he can't.

Some people have speculated that the only reason Dan Schneider had Carly come to the window and see Sam and Freddie kissing was to just move the plot along.

As in, Carly finds out about it right now, there's a scene that reveals that she and Freddie no longer have any feelings for each other, and Carly encourages Sam and Freddie to pursue the feelings that they have for each other. Done.

Well, if that happens, I am going to have a lot of mixed feelings. Although I've spent a lot more time recently defending the Carly/Freddie relationship, and Creddiers in general, I really do love the Sam/Freddie relationship, and I would be very happy to see them get together.

That said, if nothing further happens between Carly and Freddie apart from a scene in which they simply resolve their feelings for each other, there are two things I am really going to regret.

First, the wasted potential ... I honestly feel that a Carly/Freddie relationship had a lot more to offer than the endless, stereotypical kissing we saw in iSaved Your Life, and I will regret that all of that will go unexplored.

Second, I will really feel sorry for the Creddie shippers. In his "Fun Facts" for iOMG, Dan Schneider posted a picture of Carly grabbing Freddie by the shoulders, with the caption, "Wait ... What the fudge is going on HERE ... ??"

Dan Schneider made it look like something was developing between Carly and Freddie. Well, it turned out to be that conversation between them about horses, which some regard as "flirty," others view as just a friendship moment.

Here's the thing ... When you take that, plus Carly looking shocked (and possibly hurt or jealous) at seeing Sam kissing Freddie, plus Dan Schneider's statement that if you didn't like iOMG, you might still like future episodes ... and then Dan Schneider just ends things for Creddie by having Carly and Freddie reveal that they don't have any feelings for each other anymore? Just like that?

What was the point, then? Why get the Creddie fans' hopes up with the possibility of more Carly/Freddie development if it was never going to happen? Why not just let the Creddiers give up hope after iOMG so that they could get over it now?

Not to be overly dramatic, but to me, it's like throwing a lifeline out to a drowning man and then snatching it right back from him.

If Dan Schneider really is going to just end hopes for Creddie, I really wish he'd done it a different way. If Sam and Freddie do become a couple now ... I will be happy, but it will definitely be tempered with a lot of regret.