User blog comment:Sockstar1/Creddie fans prepare yourselves for iSeddie/@comment-3092491-20110606012342

I feel like applauding for the "My Reasoning" list but I know it would be mean given the context of it being written :) Sorry.

Okay, so I know I *just* wrote a semi-reply to you on the Creddie page about how Dan teases and "never lets himself get pinned" into what he's doing with Seddie and Creddie, and that reply was somewhat negative towards Schneider. But after reading over what you said after the "My Reasoning" list I'm starting to feel a little sympathy for Dan from the writer side of me.

It seems that all this editing and pandering and teasing and building he does with everything he says is something he has to do, not something he does by choice to be a devilish old man.

From my perspective he's wanted to do Seddie for a very long time now (and has been doing it) but he's created a show where the fandom is very split down the middle and very, very...passionate...from both sides as to what they want to happen. If I were I writer and I was him, or anyone that had a fandom like this, and one idea in my mind for my stories direction, I'd just want to tell you you people: "You know what, go screw yourselves if you don't like it. This is what I want to do with my story and this is what I'm doing."

But obviously Dan can't do that because...well, he can't tell an audience of largely children to go screw themselves for one xD...but he's heading an extremely successful show that much of its success (not all of it) comes from these two sets of crazies that are extremely invested in a couple of simple little teen relationships on a teen comedy. He has to keep them both watching. It's not just a motivation of greed either (though money of course is a big part) - anyone that was telling a story that was this big would need and want to keep everyone watching - especially if their # 1 reason for creating the show was to make people laugh, they wouldn't want anyone leaving just because of the side-romance (that is also supposed to largely be played to make people laugh).

What I'm seeing now is its kinda like Dan is being seen as the villain from whatever side is going to lose, and he's kinda forced to be the villain because if he just straight told people that he was doing this and if they don't like it they could dump spaghetti in his lap, and didn't put any other "mayyybeee" around it, then he'd be in a bad place with losing people to something that he obviously thinks they take too over the top anyway - and I don't mean just the relationships, clearly he thinks those are important, but the * rivalry* between them is what he finds silly.

I think most writers hope that their audience will like whatever they do with their story and they also think they *should* like whatever they do with their story. So rivalry between two hypothetical options seems a stupid thing and a stupid thing to stop watching over. The story is what it is.

All that said - My condolences to the fans that like Creddie. I certainly understand fandom and disappointed in the direction of a story, and its much easier with something as "simple" as iCarly where it could have wanted to go either way.