Talk:Seddie/@comment-24341760-20140721150327/@comment-14284535-20140721160144

Hanlon's Razor: Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

When iCarly was on, I don't think the y were eroding the Sam character like you say. Sure, she did all that, but she also: saved everyone from her old friends; tried to comfort Freddie when his show idea failed; didn't lash out a Freddie for bad-mouthing her on the job; didn't pound Freddie into 1,000,000 pieces for lying to her; helped Gibby with the restaurant; beat up the guy who was picking on him; twice defended defenceless geeks against bullies; overally treated Freddie way better than he deserved in the last 15 or so episodes etc. You will notice that these moments are in the objectively stronger stories of the last two seasons.

The razor is why I think that DS was running out of ideas and just fell back into a formula. The premise is weak; the characters are not strong; the setting is ludicrous, etc. DS never thought through a lot of the potential stories for whatever nonsense he was putting out there. All the flaws in the series were on display in its strongest story, TKTJ. So you can't expect him to get very far with a series that is that seriously flawed.