User blog comment:The Sam Puckett/Seddie/Creddie: Which Was Planned From the Start?/@comment-3092491-20110709230055

Depends what you mean exactly by planned. Because Dan would be an idiot to not realize that he had engineered his three main characters into the two very common tropes of "boy next door" and "love/hate, your missing the right girl" as far as romance goes. Its practically slapping you in the face as early on as iPilot. Freddie has a monster crush on the girl next door, unattainable, but he'll man-up and she'll notice him for all his good and maybe one day... and Freddie has a monster crush on the girl next door and has a constant bickering match going on with her best friend, who can't seem to stop insulting him, haha, wait until their worlds are turned upside down by them ending up liking each other...

Its obvious. So they were there, and Dan had to know it, but whether he had one planned over the other, how early on that came into vision, and if he even wanted a heavy romance plot in the show to begin with...that all goes down to subjective, either parties reasoning.

I certainly don't think Sam and Freddie has been thrown into the mix on a whim at this point in time of iOMG or any other (as *some* people do) and as early as iKiss came into creation I think they were planning on moving towards Seddie. Just the way I see it has a writer.

Several factors that they could have twisted and changed from the start and/or at any point on to make Creddie more viable. But they always opted out for Seddie development. Start them at odds with one another and constantly be working closer to the middle. Hate, episodes of friendship development, iWill Date Freddie, iReunite with Missy, etc. etc., less to no attention to Creddie in that area, because they don't start far at odds, but even then, an episode dedicated to developing their friendship in some light, from manic crush, to...something? Nope, nothing, zilch.

Romance? Not a factor with Sam and Freddie. Always a factor with Carly/Freddie, looming in the background. Develop that? No. BAM - out of no need where iKiss, romance added in, unresolved, hanging over them. In the midst of working towards friendship too, add to the mix, complicate. Next down the line? Follow-up. iThink They Kissed, unresolved...factor, in form of question, forever there. Meanwhile in Carly/Freddie? Romance? Fading. Absence of manic crush being development of genuine feelings becomes absence of development in place of Sam/Freddie romance developing.

Next up to bat? iSpeed Date. Ending? Quaint. Conflict: Three people can't find a date...two come together, one is left out, burden of meaning is left to fall on her. Sam's face? Third piece in a puzzle falling in. Carly/Freddie dance? Kick in the shins to remind you it was even there. Why remind you? Cause Sam made a face. That's where that puzzle piece of Seddie fit, beside Carly/Freddie dancing.

iSaved Your Life? Conflict resolution. Romance factor of Carly/Freddie relationship, looming over them. Take it down, cut it out, rip it up, leave a shred - dangling in the wind. Most weighted scenes? Foreign bacon talk & breaking up. Meaning falls there - problem: not genuine feelings. resolution: break them up. If all the pieces building were Sam/Freddie, this piece here derives its meaning from that - obstacle of that plot line, not a plot unto itself.

What happens in purgatory? Self-fulfilling prophecy at end of iSYL "hero thing wears off, maybe then?" fulfills self through dating other people, never mentioning again...dynamic slowly changing between Sam and Freddie? Sure. Closer to the middle. Carly and Freddie? Not much to change to start with, but sure, maybe. Question from iThink They Kissed + Question from iSaved Your Life. Take a break for laughing. Next piece to fall - its up in the air, this is the tip-off, who ever gets the ball starts the game and has control to finish it....iOMG

And there you go.

(yes, this may have been hard to follow. My mind works in weird ways. but that's how I've seen it.)