MovieChat Forums > Girl Meets World (2014) Discussion > Stop acting like this show was special

Stop acting like this show was special

posted 8 years ago by torfarrells
18 replies | jump to latest

This show sucks. If boy meets world never existed then this show would have no love. You only like it for it's callbacks to the old show, not for what it is. It's bad. Really bad.

The jokes never fly. The acting is absolutely atrocious. There is this weird mix of drama in the middle and at the end, and all the storylines are so absolutely predictable.

This is not the golden show of Disney. Shows like Good Luck Charlie, or Phineas and Ferb -- THOSE were disney channel classics.

Not this. Never this. Not surprised it was cancelled.

[–] dandanger 8 years ago

The acting was truly great - every one of the cast is tremendously talented.

[–] horribleHDanny 8 years ago

I agree the cast was talented to differing degrees,they just had to overcome some atrocious writing.But one thing I've wondered about since I started coming to this board is why do some of these folks who are writing seem to take this show SO seriously??!It's a kids show,on a kids network!!Anyway,I guess it doesn't matter now!!!BTW,I'm dueling with good old Crotchrot the troll right now,so I gotta go!!!

[–] super-staff 8 years ago

But one thing I've wondered about since I started coming to this board is why do some of these folks who are writing seem to take this show SO seriously??!It's a kids show,on a kids network!!

Because kids are smarter than people give them credit for, and just because a show is geared toward younger audiences doesn't excuse garbage writing. The shows OP mentioned, Good Luck Charlie and Phineas and Ferb, are actually entertaining and relatively competently written. So are other Disney shows like Gravity Falls, Star vs the Forces of Evil, Star Wars Rebels, Kim Possible, So Weird, That's So Raven, etc. Whether you like them or not, at least the aforementioned shows didn't talk down to their audiences or had awkward humor/drama like Girl Meets World. It really did feel like most of the fans excused it due to its pedigree of being related to BMW or because they liked the actors rather than the actual storylines. From the focus shift to Maya to the horrible love triangle to Lucas/Riley having no pay-off (they never act like a couple) to Corey acting like a buffoon to Shawn marrying Katy then disappearing despite being needed for storylines to...well...a lot of other stuff. GMW was one of my most anticipated shows back before it aired, and now? It's just another in a long list of modern sequels that failed.

[–] crotchrocket 8 years ago

One of the few people with a God*bleep* free-thinking brain on this board.

[–] horribleHDanny 8 years ago

Thank you,I must say,when you drop the brain damaged act,you actually make some very valid points(The Bye Felicias thread)!!!

[–] KristenStewartForever 8 years ago

Shut up. You know nothing. The show was great. Everyone was talented. Everyone was good. The show was awesome. Stop acting you know something big shot. Because you don't know squat.

[–] Nike316 8 years ago

The show ending doesn't bother me as much as it would've last year. I've mostly been over it ever since then, and the only reason I stuck around was mostly for name value. Without it, I wouldn't have cared at all, I agree. I won't celebrate though, as i'm just disappointed the show didn't live up to it's potential.

[–] monstermayhem32 8 years ago

I just hope the show has decent ending.

[–] ADBruns 8 years ago

Completely agreed. I only watched for the very under-used old characters. And even when they were used, it was usually in a rather meh manner. This show was a guilt/obligation watch for me, I can't say I'll miss it.

[–] decarus427 8 years ago

I do think that this show was written with the older audience in mind in a lot of ways, so the younger people who watch it just don't get it. That is the only explanation i can come up for why people say that the writing of this show is bad. They just don't get it.

[–] monstermayhem32 8 years ago

The older audience being the ones like myself who grew up with Boy Meets World. I think the show's issues was that it was trying to please the fans who loved the original series and trying to create something different but often was too compared to the original show.

[–] decarus427 8 years ago

Well, i am older. I just never watched Boy Meets World very often because i didn't like it. I do think that a lot of people came in wanting to see all of the Boy Meets World characters lives continue, as in the focus of the show being about the adults instead of about the kids. That was never going to happen. The show is about the kids and that should be the focus and focusing on the kids does not make the show badly written or a bad continuation either.

I think a lot of people have a nostalgic view through a twenty year old lens of Boy Meets World, which i understand, but that doesn't make that show perfect or the acting great on it. It had its problems.

[–] timeofourlife2012 8 years ago

It was special to some people. I loved the show, but it had it's flaws. I loved the cast and think casting was perfect. The writing was sometimes way too babyish, but some episodes were great. I was really looking forward to it continuing to mature but I knew Disney was the wrong network. They would never let the show mature, because they are a kids network. It should have been on Netflix or Freeform from the beginning. IMO.

[–] the_match_maker 8 years ago

Various critiques are not without merit. It’s true enough to say that without its parent, this show would not exist.

It’s also fair to say that the sometimes faulty writing would not be forgiven to the extent that it has were it not part of a greater ‘franchise’. Star Trek: The Next Generation could get away with things that Babylon 5 never could.

And yes, it’s also fine to admit that the show itself has not hit the same highs as other ‘standard bearer’ shows of the network’s past (though it must be pointed out that cable ratings as a whole are on the decline).

However, by its existence, it allowed the fans an opportunity to once more visit with cherished characters from their past. So, with that in mind, the show ‘paid for itself’.

[–] crotchrocket 8 years ago

Star Trek: The Next Generation could get away with things that Babylon 5 never could.

Babylon 5 is massively overrated as it is. Its first two seasons were just as bad as the first two seasons of TNG and the strength of the show in later season was carried by sensibilities that frankly are probably considered obsolete today especially after the disaster of the Bush presidency and Operation "Enduring" "Freedom." Though now that Trump and the alt-right are rising maybe that's going to change again. It's final season also had to be carried by massive budget cuts resulting in cast changeovers (to actors who are simply just cheaper) and a "post-script" story because they were sure Season 4 would be the last.

TNG also nearly faced cancellation after the second season too. Their budget was massively slashed resulting in cheaper sets and makeup, Gates McFadden left due to accusations of a hostile environment and she wouldn't return until they fired series director Russ Mayberry after just one episode, along with pushing Gene Roddenberry into the background until he was just a symbolic figurehead. Something that's unthinkable with Jacobs and Girl Meets World, but something that clearly should've happened. The series saved itself in Season 3 with a better production crew including better writers, better directors and better set designers and set directors (which resulted in the show getting a much better look to the point where a lot of people think they also got better quality cameras - the entire show had been filmed with the exact same camera equipment from beginning to end). This was all at the network's insistence, so the network isn't always somehow the bad guy to the show they themselves pay for.

However, by its existence, it allowed the fans an opportunity to once more visit with cherished characters from their past. So, with that in mind, the show ‘paid for itself’.

How the hell can it pay for itself when its ratings are in the toilet? That's the only way a show can "pay for itself".

[–] the_match_maker 8 years ago

How the hell can it pay for itself when its ratings are in the toilet? That's the only way a show can "pay for itself".

I mean that from a creative standpoint, as it concerns the fanbase. For all of its flaws, its very existence has allowed fans to see more of characters they had once loved, thus making it 'all worth while' from that perspective.

[–] cTitus924 8 years ago

why did the oust roddenberry?
 Women, can't live with em; So stuff your mother and live with that.(Bullet Tooth 504)