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And that is why it's cancelled


They had a chance to teach a worldly lesson about sometimes moving is best for everyone, and they blew it...again.

This is a terrible lesson for kids. Sometimes parents have to make the hard call. They can't always pander to children. Perfect millennial lesson that kids have the power, I guess.

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Except that wasn't the lesson. The lesson was that Topanga found her quiet space where she can sit and the next decisions of her life are made and that was important to her. Topanga stayed for herself, not for the kids.

I swear most of the people who watch this show don't know what is going on in it.

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Well they didn't know if there'd be another season or not so it's not like she could've moved only for them to reverse it next season.

"By law you have to call it a lair if you use it to torture people." Douglas Davenport

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Just got done watching the Boy Meets World finale, and they basically crapped on all the lessons Cory and Topanga learned back then.

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Excuse me but what about Girl Meets Permanent Record? Or Girl Meets She Don't Like Me?

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There are lots of shows that mention social media, you need to to, to be realistic in 2017 if you are doing a show about young people. Just use a false name. Twitter becomes Chirpee. Instagram is PictureShare. Facebook is FacePlace.

Good job Oscars! Hopefully Asian and Hispanic nominees in 2018!

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I wasn't talking about cyberbullying. It was just proof that she didn't live in a bubble!

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I don't think it was written as a finale. I think they only feared they'd be canceled, but weren't 100% sure yet. That's why it ended the way it did.

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Friendships aren't forever. Topanga should have taken the job in London to make it realistic. Instead we get Riley and Maya in each other's life and they get their fairytale ending. There are no hardships about this show. Sometimes the hardest decision is the best one. But they make everything too easy.

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Exactly. They live in a creepy cult-like isolation bubble acting all sanctimonious and preachy essentially petrified of the world and teaching their peers about the mistakes they make *much* to the smug self-satisfaction of their babysitter Cory and also bask in their own glory.

This show wasn't a "on a very special Blossom (or Good Luck Charlie, since you tweens can't remember the '90s). It was a heavy-handed scare tactic by a moron executive producer who has NOOOO business writing for a kids' channel.

Instead of celebrating the achievements of growing up, like going to a dance and having your first kiss (...maybe!), they went:

The "big bad world is so scare-we!" (in baby speak) and Sawyer McBadass is smoking pot in the boys room and the entire world may join and become a pot-smoking zombie society, so we better band together and drill into his head being self-righteous is a more powerful high. The fact it that will also make us grow a glob of wholesome goodness is just our second orgasm.

The show was a F-up from the first episode. BTW, go watch the early Full House episode when DJ goes to a dance and Uncle Jesse catches her w/ a beer in her hand. Yeah, it had a serious message about doing the right thing and being unjustly accused, but it struck the right cord of overall sitcom comedy and a LITTLE dose of lesson teaching. Michael Jacobs NEVER got this!!!!!

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Excuse me, but it didn't seem that way to me.

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Excuse me, but it didn't seem that way to me.


Of course not - it was a perfectly wonderful series from start to finish with an admittedly glaring screw up with the triangle. He/she is simply here to say nasty things in order to aggravate people - or he/she could simply be very angry that it was canceled. I am very disappointed.

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They could just continue it in London

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And you're a delusional manchild forever condemned in your mom's basement.

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You know when I first started watching this episode and the London thing came into play I thought it would be one of those episodes that had an alternate ending just in case it was canned. You know if it was cancelled they would move to London if not they would stay. But it didn't seem that way.

"Who lives, who dies, who tells your story"

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Half of these "life lessons" on GMW are basically redundant.

Realistically, Topanga would have taken the job in London. But, Michael Jacobs wanted to follow the same format of BMW by having her make the decision to stay in New York.

If you remember, Topanga gave up on Yale to go to Pennbrook so that she could stay together with her husband. They made that quite clear again in the series finale of GMW.

It was way too lame and predictable. There's nothing really challenging about Riley meeting the world if she continues to get her way most of the time. This is why BMW will always be vastly superior to this show.

True, maybe the cancellation had some influence. Even if it did continue into a fourth season, they would have had her move back to the states anyhow if she had taken the job, as somebody else on here had mentioned.

Oh well, good riddance. Disney severely limited a lot of touchy subjects that would have been better suited on another network.

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This finale reinforced my frustrations with the show being too preachy and also putting Riley and Maya's friendship above all else. I actually think their extremely codependent friendship was unhealthy and kind of creepy.

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I definitely agree. What this show needed more than anything else was an episode addressing how dangerous and unhealthy Maya and Riley's relationship was. They basically spent three years advertising codependency as a virtue and telling kids that they cannot function without the constant presence of a best friend who is tied to them for life. The fact that those girls would literally die if they were separated for more than a day actually is a little disturbing. Since the episode was written with the possibility of a fourth season, I do get them not wanting to write off the entire cast. Still, it would have been so much better if Riley and Maya learned that things change, especially when you're as young as they are.

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show is so overdramatic week to week that even what are supposed to be bomb shells just seem like more unnecessary minor drama

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If it had moved to Freeform you would've ain't seen nothing yet for melodrama!

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Out of all the things you could possibly blame for how bad the show was, you choose Millennials. Wow...

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He/she or whatever must be a Trump voter.

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