User blog comment:Mak23686/My problem with the iCarly ships/@comment-3541132-20110717205905

Personally, I would love Creddie and Spam to happen, but not by the end of the show. If Spam were to happen, Sam would have to be much older before it did. When she's 20, it could happen. But the show won't go on for that long.

I would also love Felanie and Cam, but again first of having any gay couples at all is highly unlikely for this show and Melanie and Freddie are unlikely to spend much time together at all.

However, I think it's too late to go back to a friendship ending after all of the romantic development of the story.

If one of the ships were to happen, the other character would obviously continue living their life. They would go to college (maybe) and work and meet many more people and probably eventually fall in love and get married.

A tv show, a movie, and book, is all meant to be a section of an ongoing story. Shows don't start when the main character is born (usually), they start at a point in their lives where there was a story before that that we don't get to see. But it happened. And they don't end with a character dying (usually), and we don't get to see what happens afterwards (except for an epilogue) but there is a story afterwards that exists.

For the epilogue point, I will use Harry Potter as an example (HARRY POTTER SPOILER ALERT). We know that Ron and Hermione and Harry and Ginny get together. We saw the relationship development towards it. However there are other ship that happened. Draco/Astoria, Neville/Hannah, Luna/Rolf. And we obviously didn't see their relationships development. However, I still wanted to know what the characters did after the story ended. What jobs they have, who they married, who had kids and what they named them. Because that exists, because one again a movie/book/show is a "section of an on-going story". The characters will continue to have lives after the end of the story, and they will realistically meet new people and have endings. I don't think iCarly will do an epilogue, because epilogues mostly occur in books only. However, I think epilogues are a good idea and the best type of ending ship wise.

Of course, this depends on the contents of the epilogue. I will now use The Hunger Games epilogue as an example. (HUNGER GAMES SPOILER ALERT). That epilogue told us nothing new. The Harry Potter epilogue told us what we wanted to know. We didn't get to see the development, but we know it exists because it was 19 years of it. It would be impractical to show us all the development. I would rather know what happens to the characters than be left guessing because I don't find out. And J.K. Rowling didn't put all of that into the epilogue. She gave us more information through her website and interviews. In fact she gave us back story information too. The book never mentioned that Dumbledore was gay. She had to tell us that. And I'm glad she did. It changes my perspective of Dumbledore in good ways. After finding out about his support of wizard supremacy over muggles in his young age, I was mad at him. But finding out that he was actually in love with Grindelwald caused me to forgive him, because love can make you do crazy things. This is just an example of how extra information that didn't happen during the piece of the story we are shown is good. Because it did happen.

That is why I think an epilogue is the best way to end a story. It's not perfect, but I think it's the best since there just isn't enough time and it isn't practical to show all the development of all the characters. And also because I think it is more fulfilling than being left guessing because of not finding out everyone's fate. However, I also think that it is very unlikely for iCarly to do an epilogue (I'm not sure why I think that) so perhaps the best iCarly ending would be either no ships or one ship and an uncertain romantic ending for the left out character. But I maintain that an epilogue is the best way to end a story.