I guess it's a good thing this is the last season. This show is beginning to make the same mistakes Girl Meets World makes. In the midst of all their preaching they forgot to be entertaining. It's ironic that with all the Grrrr girl power stuff going on in 2 of the 3 storylines in this episode that the most entertaining one was the Joey/Parker storyline.
shareThe main story was such a tired red herring anyway. I went to school in the 70's and 80's in small town America and I don't remember ever hearing anyone ever say that girls can't do math or science or engineering.
And the young cousin claims she has never seen a movie or tv show with a girl that likes cars or something? I can name dozens of shows and movies off the top of my head made since the 90's where there are female characters that like cars or mechanics or science etc. Where has she been?
WE GOT MOVIE SIIIIIGN!
Agreed, it's such a lazy set-up especially considering they already used it for Liv in season 1. Their previous girl power episodes with the list and celebrity double standards were a lot better. I really wish Disney would stop beating a dead horse with the whole "girls aren't into Stem!?" PSA and actually focus on creative storytelling like they did with the two episodes I mentioned.
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The main story was such a tired red herring anyway. I went to school in the 70's and 80's in small town America and I don't remember ever hearing anyone ever say that girls can't do math or science or engineering.
And the young cousin claims she has never seen a movie or tv show with a girl that likes cars or something? I can name dozens of shows and movies off the top of my head made since the 90's where there are female characters that like cars or mechanics or science etc. Where has she been?
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She has been in the Disney Channel Live Action Universe, a fictional alternate universe to ours, which includes bionic kids, superheroes, wizards, etc.. Possibly all the movies and shows depicting girls liking cars, science, math, engineering, etc. have been replaced by different movies and TV shows in this fictional universe. After all it does include fictional movies and TV shows like Space Werewoves, Voltage, Linda and Heather, and Sing it Loud.
Warning: Link to TV Tropes follows.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Franchise/DisneyChannelLiveActionUniverse?from=Main.DCLAU
The lesson is not necessarily a bad one, but don't beat me over the head with it. I stopped watching when the girls were racing shoes because it was obvious that's what was happening.
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