User blog comment:Hjpforeverlastingx8/Shippers: Wait and See What Happens/@comment-4184884-20110911172333

I agree in the sense that some people are acting like this is the make or break seddie episode...as if this is the last episode of the arc. It's not. It's the 1st episode with them as a couple. Obviously, they're going to have problems and there's going to be a honeymoon phase. If there wasn't there would be no conflict, there would be no drama, there would be no arc.

Also, I don't understand other non-seddie shippers being excited about this episode in that they feel it "spells doom" for Seddie. I'd understand feeling that way if this were the last episode of the arc. But as I said, it's not. And it's not for a reason. Because Sam & Freddie need the arc to work through their problems. Dan didn't just present us with a problem and than end it. He's giving Seddie time to work out those problems.

If Dan just wanted to show "hey, they don't work" he would have had an episode (probably extended like iSYL) of them admitting feelings, dating, arguing all the time, and deciding after Carly's freak out that "hey, this doesn't work. Nice try though." But he didn't do that. He dedicated an arc...with 2 more episodes to go. The arc is essential and I think everyone is forgetting what Nathan said a while ago. EVERY episode of the arc is important.

Arc episode 1: They realize they have feelings for each other. Arc episode 2: They deal with internal struggles put on their relationship (Fighting all the time, being overly cutesy, etc) Arc episode 3: They deal with external struggles put on their relationship (Mrs. Benson, Gibby, Carly, etc) Arc episode 4: They come to a resolution.

People are jumping to negative conclusions about all sorts of things based on iDS&F. Like the inability of Sam & Freddie to last, the "disappointing" way Dan will write their dynamic in the future, the anti-seddie outcome of the arc, the possibility of a reassurance of Creddie and I just think people are ignoring that this is the middle of the arc.

Every story has a pattern, a plan. A beggining, a middle, and an end. A problem, a climax, and a resolution. We're smack dab in the middle of the climax. We don't have the resolution yet. So until we do, I think people need to just keep this fact in mind.