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Disney Validates Child Polygamy (Girl Meets World Spoilers)

Guy Gardener

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Girl Meets World (2014).

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The two female leads in this Disney sitcom about middleschool/high school hijinks aimed at entry level teens (a sequel to the 90s series Boy Meets World), rather than destroying each other and their friendship over a very attractive boy, decide to share him.

The youtube above is a recap of season 1 & 2. Today however season three premiered where their relationship was referred to as a "triangle" and the boy, Lucas, was allowed to say "These are my girlfriends" without getting punched in the nards. I think the Producers of Girl meets World Kobayashi-Marued Pretty in Pink. In the future (now) there are no more Duckies. How sad.

It's just holding hands and very light kissing now, but if Girl Meets World makes it to season seven (in 2020 AD), some sort of threesome/group intimacy act is going to be unavoidable if the "triangle" is still intact.

DISNEY! Ladies and gentlemen, DISNEY! Bastions of American PURITY!

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(I've seen three episodes of this show ever, it's not terrible, just created for a younger audience, but I'm smiling ear to ear and laughing my ass off over this development that I only came across because everything else I watch is on ####ing hiatus.)
 
That's polyamory, technically.

Surprised this hasn't gotten a backlash. Probably because they've framed it as a power of friendship story and haven't labeled it anything.
 
I really enjoy this show, I guess just not enough to finish off Season 2 on Netflix, or even start it. I'm finished with Season 1.

It's a cute, slightly watered down version of Boy Meets World, and I'm ok with that.
 
JirinPanthosa said:
How do you water down Boy Meets World?
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But we need to ask a very serious question that if answered incorrectly can destroy the moral fabric of the USA or even the universe!!!!!!!!!11!!!

Do they all use the same bathroom?!

Anything goes at Disney as long as everyone is wearing a Purity Ring. It's how Nick Jonus gets away with getting butt fucked at the same time as he's fucking some hooker. Shit, Nick didn't want me to share that, I need to delete the video we took.
 
The stupid in here: it burns bad.

(And this isn't meant to insult anyone in here before someone gets their knickers in a twist, because I feel certain that this is intentionally structured "stupid" being carried out by intelligent people. Not stupid by really stupid people. ;) )
 
The Boy Meets World writers knew what they were doing. There was that one episode where Eric and Fini were cast in a sitcom that was basically a parody the show and the writers made fun of themselves. Like at one point they showed the writers panel and it was a bunch of ten year olds.
 
USS Triumphant said:
The stupid in here: it burns bad.

(And this isn't meant to insult anyone in here before someone gets their knickers in a twist, because I feel certain that this is intentionally structured "stupid" being carried out by intelligent people. Not stupid by really stupid people. ;) )
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What do you mean? I'm stupid and don't understand.

Trump / Gingrich 2016! They are experts in family values because they have several of them! Vote early and vote often!

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(I just assume everything Guy Gardener says shouldn't even be taken seriously.)
 
I watched Seasons 1 and 2 pretty loyally. I enjoy the characters, so there's more in it for me than just Boy Meets World nostalgia. But the show's biggest problems are (1) the love triangle and (2) their tendency to treat every issue that they explore like it's some world-ending event. There's no subtlety at all when they want to teach life lessons. It comes on like a freight train.

On the one hand, I like that they're trying. They're trying to speak to this generation of kids and that's a good thing. The "Disney Channel" constraints are pretty obvious though...something Michael Jacobs has remarked on. There's only so far they can go on a channel that wants them to appeal to a 6-13 year old demographic, and they've already had to make some changes to certain episodes to make Disney happy. It's only going to get worse as they age. If the show goes past Disney's customary 4 seasons, it'll have to move networks. They need more space to grow. We'll see if that happens. They can't "meet the world" if the show ends with them in 10th grade, unless they plan to tackle 2 grades a season, since the seasons are about 30 episodes long.

With regards to the love triangle, I quickly tired of it last year. I think it's pretty clear that Lucas likes Riley more, but the writers are doing this in order to teach some lesson about how "liking the same boy can affect friendship." I haven't seen the season 3 opener yet but I've read that there's yet another crisis brewing as they set up the high school years. Even if it is tiresome, I'll give it a shot because I really do enjoy these characters. The show quickly became its own entity despite all the BMW callbacks. And at times, it is legitimately LOL-funny.

And as for the polyamory thing, they've been kinda poking fun at that all along with Farkle saying back in season 1 that he loves both of the girls and it doesn't matter which of them he marries, and took both of them as his dates to an awards ceremony once. So if they are doing it with Lucas too, it might become one of the series' running jokes. The implication will go over the child viewers' heads anyway.
 
Here is why they needed the blond. She's 17 (Right now wikipedia tells me) just like the boy who is also 17. The brunette is only 14. The blondes are weeks/months away from being unbound from the child labour and morality restrictions. So I'm thinking popularity willing, that these two will get a spin off if the producers can get past the Mouse in charge of the Castle.
 
Disney usually ends shows at the 4-season mark. It's how they roll. I don't think many have gone beyond that...maybe one cartoon did but I'm not aware of any of their scripted shows doing that. Fans have speculated that Girl Meets World will move networks after season 4, to ABC Family or whatever it's called these days. That will free them up to tackle issues like drinking, drug use, sex etc. Not to mention real crises of friendship, like Boy Meets World did back in the day.

Michael Jacobs has said that he's really thankful that Disney has given them the amount of rope that they have, but it's still not much. In season 1's Girl Meets Flaws, where the class wrote each other's personal flaws on their foreheads, Maya had "Broken Home" on hers. They had to reshoot that so it just said "Broken" because Disney was worried that parents would complain about their kids asking them what a broken home was. And the episode where Maya convinces Riley to go to a college dorm party was REALLY sugarcoated. If they were on another network, they could've done things a bit differently. I'm sure there were some Disney-mandated script rewrites on that one.

They did well to tackle cyberbullying within the Disney bubble. And Asperger's. But I don't know how they'll be able to handle the kids growing up if they're still on Disney. Unless it devolves into just another teeny-bop Disney show, they can't. Rowan Blanchard is already an outspoken feminist and identifies as queer. If she has any input of where the show is going or the issues they explore as they get older (even if it means a character other than Riley is introduced to shine a light on that), I don't see how Disney Channel will show that.
 
I was wondering what happened with "Broken Home" being removed from Mya's head, because I saw a pic that showed her with it. When the episode aired I was trying to see if it they removed it with CGI, interesting that they just reshot it because Disney was worried.
 
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