Besides while Riley and Maya are compared to Cory and Shawn, they are also often compared to Cory and Topanga.
I've never seen that. Of course, the only time I sensed anything remotely flirtatious was Maya pretending to like Zay and Zay testing the waters with her. Of course, they are the only people on the show that are actually good at the craft.
Cory and Shawn acted all affectionate and it was funny and seemed gay because hetero men don't act like that. Maya and Riley were not funny because heterosexual girls act just like Thunder and Lightning. They hold hands, call each other wife, tell each other they love each other, call each other hot!
Regardless I never thought I was watching lesbianism. There are women that love their best friend more than their spouse. In fact, spouses may come and go, they are still straight.
Maya was kidding about Joshua replacing Riley. She'd be fine. Her life was never as bad as they wanted it to seem. She has a mom, step dad, and would still have the gang. Moving is harder on the person that moves than the people left behind.
Maya might not have emotional diarrhea like Riley and Farkle, but she is emotionally stable.
What do we want? More Asian actresses and actors. When do we want it? Yesterday!
reply
share
decarus427
7 years ago
Cory: "Hey, Topanga. You and me."
Topanga: "You and me. Let’s win this thing."
Maya: "You and me. Let’s win this thing."
Cory: "You realize, Topanga, that life as we know it has changed."
Riley: "You realize, Maya, that life as we know it has changed."
Topanga: "Scared?"
Maya: "Scared?"
Cory: "Nah. I got you."
Riley: "No. I got you."
“I know that, if you’re lucky in this life, you get an extraordinary relationship. My mother and my father met each other very early and stayed together for the rest of their lives. Our first boyfriends, Maya. Who knows how long that’s going to last? We’re going to meet new people all of the time. But, if there’s one thing I know for sure in my life, it’s that you are my extraordinary relationship, Maya.”
Also, in the finale Topanga pretty much says that she watched the girls in their bay window and she and Cory always wanted a place like that. A place where important decisions are made and the next best steps of their lives are decided. Topanga compares the girls to her and Cory.
Riley is compared often to Cory as she is the girl and he is the boy. There was also that entire episode where they showed a bunch of flashbacks and talked about how Riley was like Topanga too, how goofy Topanga was at times as a child. Maya has been compared to Topanga, there was an episode where Maya got called short and Riley didn't stick up for her and Topanga talked to her and about how they were both short, but that they were both fierce.
That along with True Maya, Christopher Park, Friends of Dorothy, the statues and the brick. That and as you have mentioned, they many times talk about how they plan to be together for the rest of their lives.
I do think that it is different then how Cory and Shawn acted because that was played for laughs. Riley and Maya say they are forever and it is not done for laughs. I don't know for sure, but there is something to the idea.
reply
share
Educator07
7 years ago
[quote][I don't know for sure, but there is something to the idea./quote]
Except for their being heterosexuals.
What do we want? More Asian actresses and actors. When do we want it? Yesterday!
reply
share
decarus427
7 years ago
Except they are characters on a tv show, so they aren't anything. They are just what they are being written and that is what i am talking about, how they are being written. To just say they are heterosexuals it is not that simple, in my opinion. They are kids. Riley has thought Lucas was cute, but even right after they got together, she called him just her first boyfriend and said she didn't know how long it would last, but that Maya was her extraordinary relationship. Maya has said she likes Josh, but that has never been more then done for laughs. I just don't know. I think there is something else there in the writing. There are too many things that don't make sense and those things would immediately make sense if Maya liked Riley.
reply
share
Educator07
7 years ago
Except they are characters on a tv show, so they aren't anything.
By your logic,Topanga and Cory aren't heterosexuals. They fell in love with each other as kids. Each were briefly involved with people of the opposite sex. Had two children. But maybe they are gay. Never thought of that before.
What do we want? More Asian actresses and actors. When do we want it? Yesterday!
reply
share
decarus427
7 years ago
Except, this is a tv show and i am talking about the writing. There are blatant things in the writing of Girl Meets World that suggest Maya likes girls or is, at the very least, less then straight.
I do think that in Boy Meets World the show invested in showing that Cory liked Topanga very early on and that continued throughout the show until they got married and had kids. I think that the same has not happen with the girls and any of their male love interests. There are episodes here and there, but the show has never been invested in Riley and Lucas' relationship. Riley and Lucas' relationship has always been told from the lens of how it effects Riley and Maya's relationship. Because this is a written tv show, i think it is important to take into account not only what is happening within the show, but also the lens through which things are being written. Maya and Josh's relationship has been written for laughs for the most part and even when it became slightly more then that, they spent the majority of the time talking about Riley.
That is what is different for me. Lucas has barely been developed as a character. We never even met his parent or really know much of anything about his home life except for meetings his grandpa. His defining characteristic is he is protective of his friends, all of them. Josh isn't even a regular and has probably been in like seven episodes out of seventy. I just really think that it is Riley and Maya's relationship that is the focus even when it comes to who they are dating. It is their relationship that is developed. It is Riley and Maya's relationship that is the lens of the show.
I don't know if that was there intention, but i, honestly, don't see how it couldn't have been and i think it can't be dismissed as if it is just illogical.
reply
share
Educator07
7 years ago
One reason I dismiss your theory other then the fact that I've seen nothing suggesting I'm watching lesbians is your insistence that Maya is the lesbian. If it were either, it'd be Riley.
Riley has the bf, yet she does not interact with him. She sits by Maya. It was Riley that declared Maya was too far away last episode when she was a foot away.
Maya has a huge crush on Josh. Maya flirts with Farkle, she's a young woman that understands sexuality. When Maya flirted with Zay to make another girl jealous, she was good at it. So much that Zay began to like her.
You're right, Lucas has not been developed as a bf, if he was to be a beard, it'd be for Riley.
Riley, while a heterosexual, acts like she has a crush on Maya. I really could see Maya moving on easily if Riley moved. I can actually envision her making new friends.
What do we want? More Asian actresses and actors. When do we want it? Yesterday!
reply
share
decarus427
7 years ago
I don't think anyone is a beard. I also think both of the girls like each other. I don't think it is a one way street. I just think that Maya's side of it has been much more developed then Riley's. I am not saying they are lesbians either. I am saying they like each other. that doesn't mean they might not have liked others.
I don't think that Maya has ever actually flirted with any of the guys. I think when Riley and Maya talked about how they wanted to date someone as good as Farkle. I don't think that Riley or Maya would ever get over moving away from each other. They would move on, but not get over it.
Agree to disagree.
reply
share