How about some intellectual honesty: you want Boy Meets World 2.0

From reading the board, it's fairly clear that that is the desire of at least some of the fanbase. I imagine that may well be the prevailing opinion of the demographic that the show was pulling in (which was not the demo that the Disney Channel's advertisers wanted--hence the network pulling the plug).

In truth, I get the vibe that that's what the show's creator wanted as well, but he was unable to get anyone else interested in the show other than the Disney Channel, and that necessitated certain changes to its creative vision that left it feeling like a neutered broadcast network show.

It was a Disney Channel show only in so far as he felt he had to compromise it to the point where it would fit. It was always a square peg in a round hole.

On the Disney Channel, it could not be what he had wanted it to be. However, without the Disney Channel, it could not be at all. It was a shoehorn job from the start.

At least, that's how it comes off to me. Mileage may vary.

Of course that's what we wanted. We love the BMW characters and wanted to see their lives as adults. We didn't want a new focus on some annoying little girls. This was always the Cory, Shawn, Topanga and Eric show. They basically deleted half of those characters(Shawn 7 episodes, Eric 3 or 4) and even Cory and Topanga are seldom used outside of being parents/teachers. It's a joke. Why even use any of the old cast if they wanted a completely different show? We wanted, and still want Cory, Shawn, Topanga and Eric as the main cast. The kids can go away. The people who really wanted this show were huge BMW fans. I feel like all GMW did was satisfy a tiny bit of nostalgia, but ultimately made me very sad because it seems like the adults have no lives outside of their children/careers now. If Netflix picks this up, I sure hope Jacobs does it right this time.

Of course I wanted that. Who is denying that?

I don't mind if Rowan and Sabrina get the A-storylines, are the main characters, etc. That's what I expected. I expected characters and story structures to be consistent with BMW, though. They aren't even close.

You see, when we spoke of "life lessons" before GMW came out, we never once thought that they would actually say the words "life lessons" on the show. GMW is a show with the commentary track on, only the kids are mouthing the words.

I like the show, but I don't like that it could have been so much more.

** Rest in peace, Timothy Volkert (1988 - 2003) **

With the old characters, it was was BMW 2.0.

I think this is true. It is my impression that there are a lot of guys that liked Boy Meets World as kids and wanted it to continue with the boys from the original show as the main characters. I just watched Boy Meets World here and there and probably more of the early seasons then the later and i never was a big fan, so for me i came in not really caring all that much about the original cast.

I love Girl Meets World. It is exactly what i want out of a show like this. I think the kids are good and i like the tone. I think the biggest mistake that they made was introducing Shawn and having him marry Maya's mother when that was never really fleshed out on screen. It didn't work and i think that was written in because there was this desire by older people to see the Boy Meets World cast.

I think this show is great. The writing is good and i think that comes because i exist outside of the expectation of wanting Boy Meets World 2.0. Also, i think that some guys who watched the old show just don't know how to watch shows with female leads and so they didn't like it because of that.

I'm not sure if everyone just wanted to follow Corey, Topanga and Shawn around. Some did but what I think wanted was a show that reminded them of their childhood show. Close to a real world, real kids and their adult mentors, real problems. That's just not what you get on Disney or Nick. And I'm not saying Sabrina gets pregnant but kid's shows have a completely different atmosphere to them. The adults are bafoonish, the entire world revolves around that kid's life, the problems they face are mild.

What I don't understand is why people keep blaming disney channel's 'censorship' for the show's failures when the writers clearly are at fault. Disney and Nick have presented plenty of actually decent (even for overall TV) shows over the years. And it is clear from watching that the issue with the show is not the material they have access to, it is the actual writing and directing of the episodes themselves. No channel, including freeform or netflix, would have saved episodes like commonism, stem, etc. They bashed you over the head with awful and unnuanced povs on whatever social issue they felt like tackling and that was it. If they were writing about sex or alcohol it wouldn't have been any different, in fact the quality could have gotten worse.