User blog comment:CreddieLuv4eva/"Is it too late for you to love me?" Analysis Blog/@comment-3101374-20120627103929/@comment-4184884-20120627145731

So, you think that all along while he was dating Sam and telling her he loved her, he was in love with Carly?

Or that he dated Sam, told her he loved her, and realized afterwards that he didn't mean it...and then fell back "in love" with Carly "again"?

Or worse, you think he meant it "platonically"?

I'm sorry, but I'm not buying it. From a storytelling point of view, there was no reason for Freddie to tell Sam he was in love with her (in a completely non-paltonic way mind you, which was made clear by the fact that they kissed afterwards and then arguably made out for an hour and a half) if it wasn't true. No reason. They were breaking up. She was walking away. It was over and she certainly wasn't going to say it to him unsolicited.

He said it and that can't be taken away from them frankly, no matter how much one might think it wasn't actually love.

And I agree with Cartoonprincess in terms of creddie being done right. THAT is the BIGGEST thing in Creddie's way right now...can it happen right without burning anyone else and being believable.

Dan has stressed Sam's dislike of creddie even as recently as iOAR. He didn't have to. He could have not focused on her at all in iOAR, but he made sure to show her reaction and he made sure to have her be the one to pick up on Freddie's crush. Much like iSD, I think that attention given to Sam in a moment that could have been all about creddie is very telling.

So, as it stands, Sam doesn't like creddie and Carly (as recently as iPS) is still picking other guys over Freddie. For creddie to happen, Dan needs to make Sam okay with Creddie and have Carly wake up after years of turning Freddie down and suddenly have feelings for him (not induced by heroic actions.) It can be done. It's not impossible, but I'll think it was pretty poor writing on Dan's part and I likely won't find it believable. Dan wasted a lot of time emphasizing Sam's dislike of Creddie and Carly's disinterest romantically in Freddie if that was where he was going all along. Frankly, in this scenario, there IS no reason to ever have involved Sam in this whole mess to begin with and certainly no need for Freddie to tell her he was in love with her.