What do you think exactly went wrong w/ "Girl Meets World"

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At least compared to something like say Fuller House (another sequel to a '90s ABC/TGIF sitcom)? Was it because fans of Boy Meets World really wanted an "adult version" of the show (i.e. from Cory and Topanga's perspective instead of their daughter's)?

Instead, we got a strictly a kids show (that along the way, kept shoving lessons down our throats) instead of something that while keeping most of the family feel from the original, added some adult jokes. Girl Meets World maybe when compared to Fuller House, didn't feel as much of much social, modernized show.

Girl Meets World for better or worse, tried to be kind of it own show with some throwbacks to the original sprinkled. This may of worked for the most part for the first two seasons. But then Season 3 happened and started trying way too hard to be like Boy Meets World instead of just of extension of the original series like it started out to be.

[ThomasE]

I thought that it was great! I'm still trying to catch up with season three. Season two was pretty good. I'm liking what I'm seeing with season three. Too bad that it was canceled. I wish that there was a season four.

[Mace Dolex]

I think the fans of BMW really wanted to see a continuation of Cory, Topanga and Shawn now older and going through the motions of any sitcom starring twentysomething characters, you know kind of like Friends or Seinfeld.

Nobody wanted to see the lives of Cory and Topanga's children as there is no emotional attachment that the original viewers had, we didn't care to see how the daughter copes with being a teenager we had that back in BMW with Cory and the gang.

As bad as Fuller House is the right thing they did was continue on with the Tanner kids now as adults but with little focus on their children.

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Originally Posted by Mace Dolex

I think the fans of BMW really wanted to see a continuation of Cory, Topanga and Shawn now older and going through the motions of any sitcom starring twentysomething characters, you know kind of like Friends or Seinfeld.

Nobody wanted to see the lives of Cory and Topanga's children as there is no emotional attachment that the original viewers had, we didn't care to see how the daughter copes with being a teenager we had that back in BMW with Cory and the gang.

As bad as Fuller House is the right thing they did was continue on with the Tanner kids now as adults but with little focus on their children.

GMW in some respects, felt like Saved by the Bell: The New Class w/ only Mr. Belding, Screech, and Bayside still around to remind people of the older, supposedly superior show.

[JO Sweet Heart]

I don't know what went wrong if anything did. The show was on the Disney network and I've heard it said that shows only go for a few years when on that station. Maybe that was the plan for this show too.

God bless you always!!!

Holly

P.S. To me, a great job was done on the final episode.

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It often seemed like Riley could do no wrong and things just always happened to work out for her. In a nutshell, it was like their formula is that kids know it best and parents are mostly idiots which is the complete opposite of what Boy Meets World was.

Compare this to Boy Meets World, where Cory, Shawn and company would get smacked down with life lessons that didn't always end happily but gave them room to grow. To give you a better idea, remember on BMW when Cory went to his parents for a down payment after he and Topanga got married and his dad Alan flat out refused?

More to the point, on GMW Cory made every class revolve around the drama going on with Riley and her pals. To give you a better idea, Cory literally would just stop class for like five minutes for Maya or Riley to talk about their problems. In contrast to that, in Boy Meets World, they waited until a class break to talk about that stuff, or else it was kind of obvious they were talking while Mr. Feeny was actually teaching.

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Michael Jacobs, the creator, and Rider Strong, both said that Disney put pressure on the show, to make sure it fit the demographic.

And looking at the show, it's easy to see how they came to this conclusion: The original pilot was notably different than the one that aired. Cory and Topanga originally had two tween children, 13-year-old Elliot, and 12-year-old Riley, though Riley would be the lead. Elliot was dropped from the show, and replaced by five-year-old Auggie. This is especially notable since almost the entirety of Topanga's airtime was spent babysitting Auggie and his bratty, bully of a "girlfriend" Ava.

Additionally, looking at the classroom scenes, and how Cory rarely had control of his classroom, and knowing that Disney Channel was originally intending to re-boot Boy Meets World, I can't help but wonder whether the channel had little interest in reviving the "Feeny-verse" and instead wanted a new show to fill the zany classroom slot.

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Maybe I'm in a minority here, but does everybody else feel that Girl Meets World seemed to take the worst aspects of the final three seasons or so of Boy Meets World (namely, too much melodrama and slapstick) and ran with it?

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Originally Posted by Mace Dolex

I think the fans of BMW really wanted to see a continuation of Cory, Topanga and Shawn now older and going through the motions of any sitcom starring twentysomething characters, you know kind of like Friends or Seinfeld.

Nobody wanted to see the lives of Cory and Topanga's children as there is no emotional attachment that the original viewers had, we didn't care to see how the daughter copes with being a teenager we had that back in BMW with Cory and the gang.

As bad as Fuller House is the right thing they did was continue on with the Tanner kids now as adults but with little focus on their children.

Know that I think about it, I wonder if Raven's Home is an improvement of sorts on that type of idea? Like with Girl Meets World, Raven's Home (the follow up to That's So Raven, in case you didn't know) centers around a now adult Raven and Chelsea raising their kids.