User blog comment:IFangirl/Did Freddie ever really LOVE Carly?/@comment-4061054-20110919022246

You're right. He wasn't really in love with Carly. It was infatuation. Dan implied it. :P

I remember the first time I watched the pilot. I was barely 12. I remember just sitting there laughing when Freddie was hitting on Carly in their first scene together. I was like "ooh man, the main character's got a stalker." I thought that Freddie was just an obsessed neighbor who had problems. I thought he was placed in the series for comedy purposes. There was no real pain behind his words when he said "I'm cool living with that constant pain." I wasn't thinking "Man, I hope he eventually gets the girl", I was thinking "That boy needs to get a grip." I also never took Freddie's feelings for Carly seriously because I don't think Freddie himself ever took his feelings for her seriously. If Freddie was ever really in love with Carly, he wouldn't have told her he loved her so many times. He wouldn't have pressured her. He would've been too afraid of losing her. Freddie never cared about scaring Carly away. It shows just how immature his feelings for her actually were.

And people say that him saving her life in iSYL proves he was in love with her, but really all it proved was that he loved her in a platonic way. She really means a lot to him. You don't have to think the other person is your soul mate to save their life. I'm willing to bet money that he would've saved Sam in a heartbeat if she had been in Carly's place, even before he started to like her. He would've saved Sam as a friend, same as he did with Carly.

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