User blog comment:CreddieLuv4eva/"Is it too late for you to love me?" Analysis Blog/@comment-4542190-20120623195248/@comment-3473808-20120626165542

@XXarchnemesisxx I agree with you that maybe Sam in iSYL was just trying to alert Freddie to what she felt was true (even though I think she should have left it for them to figure out on their own). But first, there's nothing that proves Carly and Freddie were worse off together than when Sam and Freddie were a couple. Carly may have feigned interest in his tech stuff, because she's just not into that, but Sam definitely never hid the fact that she thought his nerdy interests were stupid. Besides that, Sam also sabotaged his application to N.E.R.D camp, aside from constantly making fun of his hobbies, and later came to his "nerd club" and intentionally caused destruction of the train. That's a lot worse than simply pretending you have interest in something you don't. So if you're saying that since Carly really wasn't interested in his hobbies, they shouldn't be together, you have to also allow for the fact that Sam's behavior when they were together was much less allowing of his hobbies-she ridiculed him all the time. So the point is kind of irrelevant..but now this is getting off-topic and not a point I really want to take up on this blog. I simply can't see how Carly was worse for Freddie to be with than Sam was, comparing thier treatment of him. But getting back on topic-

Although I also think it's important that the characters would never purposefully do something to hurt each other (even though lately Freddie's been a jerk to Sam and Sam didn't change her treatment of him while they were together), I also have to disagree on your second point. Regardless of what Sam thought of their relationship, she should never ave gotten between them. Remember when Carly was being a "true friend", going out of her way to save Seddie when they would have broken up after the first or second date? She didn't have to do that, especially when they ignored her and treated her like crap in return. She could have told Freddie immediately that being with Sam wouldn't be good for him because they would fight all the time and they simply weren't mature enough to manage their own battles without her help-but she didn't try, she just let them figue it out on their own. That's being a true friend in my opinion-she went above and beyond what a good friend would do, keeping them together long after they would have broken up, and only when she saw how much they fought did she tell them they shouldn't be together. Carly could have told both of them why they shouldn't be together, like Sam did before, but she instead tried to keep them together. So the relationship got to run its natural course, and without Carly backing them up anymore they inevitably broke up. Sam should have allowed Creddie's relationship to run its natural course too-Carly and Freddie should have been allowed to figure out their true feelings on their own, and Sam didn't really have the right to mess with that, whatever her feelings about it were. I'm not saying she should have done everything she could to keep them together like Carly did, but she should have just left them alone and supported their decisions as Carly did for them later.

Anyway on your last point-I do agree that it would take a big turnaround on Carly's part for Creddie to happen right now, and that's the biggest issue in the way of it happening, just as Seddie's incompatibility stands in the way of it happening too (if both happened plausibly, anyway). It's all up the Dan now...