User blog comment:XHappilyNeverAfterx3/There's a difference between like and love....and Freddie finally realized that/@comment-2242989-20111013202441

I agree so much with this! Great blog again, BLOG MASTER! xD

But you make excellent points! I honestly think that Freddie's "love" for Carly, was just played as a joke, meant for laughs. And the fact that it was established in the very first episode, I feel that it wasn't meant to be taken seriously.

However, with Sam and Freddie, the episode started off with Sam walking in and saying, "Hey, who invited the doof?" and Freddie said, "Aw, man! I didn't know THAT was gonna be here!" Sam said, "SHE. I'm a she, Freddie, as in GIRL." and they started arguing from there. I feel that the fact that Dan started off iCarly with them being sworn enemies, is because he wanted to develop their friendship as well as their relationship, to portray how everything can develop, how feelings change, up to the point where they both begin to fall for each other.

Every time Freddie made a move on Carly, a laugh track always played, and even Carly laughed, meaning she didn't take Freddie being in love with her, seriously.

Freddie didn't save Carly's life, because he loves her. He would've risked his life to save Sam's life too, and at that time, he wasn't in love with her, (yet. ;) ) But really, Freddie's a nice guy. He would've risked to save anyone's life! Chizz, if it was Nevel who was going to get hit by the taco truck, he would come and try to risk his life to save his. Freddie's a nice and loyal person, so he would save anyone from danger. Saving someone's life doesn't mean that he loves them.

Also, as Freddie grew older, he matured as a character. In the first 2 seasons, he threw the word "love" around like Carly does. xD But as he got older, I think around Season 3, he realized that it was just a crush, and nothing more than that. He stopped throwing the word "love" around and I think he came to his senses to not say you love someone until you mean it. Even Dan said in his iSaved Your Life blog, that Freddie THOUGHT he loved Carly, but he honestly didn't.

Some point, after iSaved Your Life, his feelings started to diminish, and I think by the beginning of Season 4, his feelings were completely gone by then.

I think Dan wanted Freddie's character to develop a lot more, and realizing he wasn't in love, was the perfect way, because when he was dating Sam, the elevator scene, when he says, "I love you." to her, you could really tell he means it. You could see the love in his eyes, and there are no laugh tracks, or anything when he says it. You could see that he really means it. The scene is perfect, not just to satisfy and make us Seddiers happy, and the fact that truly means it, but the fact that he developed from the boy who threw the word "love" around, to someone who took love seriously, and was waiting to say it to a person he actually fell in love with, and that person is Sam. :)

I respect Creddier's opinion, and most of them on this wiki are really nice, but I just honestly don't think that Freddie was ever in love with Carly.

Again, great blog, Sherry! :D (And again, my comment is very long. xD)