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I got a lot out of this show


With a combination of Girl Meets World and other shows (including other resources) I would not have my life back on track to the overall happiness and satisfaction that I have with it now. This show in particular has helped me get through a lot of difficult things that I am currently dealing with in my life, including helping me out of a Great Depression that I have been suffering through over the last 10 years. How this show has helped me is through its honest portrayal not only in its subject matter, but how it presents itself overall. It presents itself as it is, not afraid to hold back or pretend to be something that it is not, while still having a strong connection to an audience that helps them care about it and its subject matter.

With all of this, Girl Meets World has produced some of the best writing and overall execution and presentation that I have ever seen in a work of fiction. It cannot end while it still has many more stories to tell, as with the characters getting older, the show will be able to have an even stronger connection and poignancy to an audience, when it can already be just as meaningful, let alone enjoyable to anyone who watches it, regardless of appropriate age difference from the characters and even target audience.

If anyone reading this could please sign & share the following petition as well as do whatever they could to help keep it going, it would be gratefully appreciated : https://www.change.org/p/the-walt-disney-company-move-girl-meets-world-to-freeform-abc-family :)

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Watching this show almost sent me into a depression.

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I am happy the show helped you get you life back together, BuzzHanks. Adults dismiss children-oriented shows as lightweight silliness, but the life-lessons discussed on Girl Meets World have something to benefit people of every age. As Ben Savage, age 35, said near the end of the "World Meets Girl" episode, "You never stop meeting the world." I'll be 65 in four months and I'm still discovering new revelations about life.

Girl Meets World has a strong metaphysical/spiritual/philosophical aspect that I resonated with from the beginning. There is much more to the stories than what appears on the surface. Sounds like you made the same connection. People who got that connection enjoyed the show. Many people who didn't connect with that tended to not like the show, and complained it was too preachy, heavy-handed and poorly written.

What struck me about the series is episodes that from the promos looked like silly, lightweight, throwaways moved me the most deeply. "Girl Meets the Bay Window" immediately jumped to No. 3 in my series Top 10, for example. "Girl Meets Bear" (which I call "Girl Meets the Bay Window, Part 2") will probably make the list as well.

People complained Girl Meets World should have been on another channel. I say Disney Channel was the right place for it. I don't think the DC execs still grasp that their youthful viewers will take to a mature show that can go from slapstick to full-on drama (like real life) in the same episode; or a show with gentle humor that teaches a life lesson without adding the verbal equivalent of pratfalls to maintain audience attention. Sadly, Disney Channel programming is slipping back mainly to the silly, generic-pop-song-and-dance, lightweight fare of 10 years ago.

I, too, wanted to see what further stories Michael Jacobs and his team had to tell.

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I also think this show had a depth that it seems like people missed. There is the superficial story and then there is the depth that for some reason a lot of people seem to completely miss. I don't think this show was heavy handed or preachy especially since so many people seem to have just missed the point completely of many of the episodes.

I almost feel like usually there is one scene where it is like that was the point, that was the point of this episode, and then i get on here and people are talking about the superficial thing, usually what the episode is called, like saying Girl Meets Bear is an episode about Riley losing her bear or saying that Girl Meets Sweet Sixteen is about Riley wanting a sweet sixteen party. I see people write things like this over and over again and i think they pretty much missed the entire point of the episode.

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I'm glad the show helped you.

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