User blog comment:Phenglei Kai/Don't get overconfident, folks./@comment-3573483-20110505235647/@comment-3276102-20110507044226

@ SomeSortaSeddieFreak :

Well, speaking just for myself ... I don't think that you and I are as much in disagreement as you seem to think we are.

You say we should distance ourselves from relationships on iCarly and focus on the comedy instead.

Well, that sounds to me like a great idea!

In my last post, I tried to clarify myself by saying shippers should "hope for the best but prepare for the worst." Well, distancing yourself from shipping seems to me like the perfect way to do it.

If you're able to put yourself into a frame of mind where the comedy is what's important, and relationships are secondary, then clearly, you are mentally prepared for anything that can happen. You can still hope for your favored ship to happen, sure, but if it doesn't, you'll be okay with it, because it's the comedy that you're really focused on.

It would be great if everybody did that. Not only would people be a lot less prone to getting upset with the show, but there'd be a lot less fighting around here.

Perhaps I should have taken that approach to this instead of telling people not to get overconfident, because that's clearly getting folks more agitated than anything else. Oh, well, 20/20 hindsight. :(

One final point, and this is not just to SomeSortaSeddieFreak, but to everybody who reads this ... If you don't believe that you know for sure what's going to happen, then you obviously weren't one of the people I was talking to when I was saying, "Don't get overconfident."

What I said wasn't about people getting excited or optimistic. It was about people believing that what they could know for a certainty what was going to happen. If you don't, then this wasn't about you.