Girl Meets Cancelation. Why do you think...

The teddy bear episode was really stupid.the triangle could be been handled better but was poorly done, even the the Eric, Rachel,and Jack one from boy meets world was handled better.

I don't think it was unrealistic to hope Girl Meets World would live beyond 3 seasons, after all Boy Meets World was like what? Six or seven seasons long?

However, I think the actual execution of the show wasn't up to par with Boy Meets World, partly because of Disney Channel's own self destructive nature. Disney Channel pumps out these shows with a whole new crop of potential teen super stars with no intent of providing quality material. They are simply just looking for their next perfect face of the network to easily market to kids and if they're lucky, they get a decent show.

Which leads me to my next point. It is absolutely ridiculous to think that Rowan's outspoken personality and beliefs had anything to do with the fate of the show. Rowan knows her voice is able to reach millions of people and she is using it to spread awareness about many issues some adults might not even understand. That doesn't mean you have to agree with what she says, but at least she was able to educate you about an issue that maybe you wouldn't have heard about otherwise, thus inspiring you to be more informed and aware of your own personal beliefs. Are we all forgetting that Disney has dealt with waaaay bigger "scandals" like Vanessa Hudgens's nude photos during the height of High School Musical? Or Even Miley's photo scandals and rebellious behavior while she was on Hannah Montana? As a multi-million dollar company, with not much interest in politics and such, Disney would never (for a lack of a better word) discipline, or even more so cancel a show, based on a cast member's political statements (within reason, if they went on a deranged offensive rant or something Disney would step in). In doing so by default, they would be making a statement about issues in which they do not want to be involved in. TV is a ratings game, nothing more.

Having worked as producer for a large network, (one that just happens to be a part of the Disney family) I can attest to the fact that the ratings are what killed this show. But I think there are multiple reasons behind this:

1. Mediocre writing. The first season thrived on the ratings based on nostalgia and the overall hype around the show. The plot lines of the first season were interesting and age appropriate for the characters...minus Auggie who I could argue was annoying enough to kill the show on his own. However, season two introduced the whole love triangle which was completely unnecessary and unrealistic. I have never in my life heard of someone "becoming someone else" to make sure the guy was a good fit. I'll give them points for trying to be original, but it just wasn't believable. I'll buy into a whole love triangle thing, but not dragged out in the way they did. They were too nice to the characters and too desperate to wrap everything up in a pretty little Minnie Mouse bow. If they wanted to create drama, the best way to do that is by breaking up the golden duo that is Riley and Maya. We get it, they are the best friends in the whole wide world, but to expand their characters and properly show their relationship, the writers should have made more drama between them. Really what pre-teen to teenage friends haven't got into a fight over a boy before? Instead they decided to keep everything perky and happy in "Rileytown," with whacky episodes that served no purpose in story arc or character development....in fact they literally spent like a season and a half "developing" Maya's character and then completely reversing it (JK she's not actually growing as a person, she just decided to morph into her best friend, because that's totally normal.)

2. Wrong Network. If the show's creators were serious about the issues they wanted to cover in the show, Disney was not the right network. Disney Channel is marketing towards kids, I would guess 13 and below. Not that younger children shouldn't be informed about some of these issues, but I think that is over estimating their attention span. Especially today, kids and teens have access to information 24/7, keeping their attention is harder than ever and will require more than Disney Channel's beloved single camera sitcom. I honestly think GMW would have done much better on Netflix. Netflix offers a wider audience, with excellent production value. I'm not even a huge Miranda Sings fan, but Hater's Back Off was a much better production than GMW. But I don't know the behind the scenes technicalities of the rights and such to BMW/GMW franchise. Netflix brought back Full House and Gilmore Girls with HUGE success, I feel that GMW would have been equally successful, but then again maybe Netflix feared getting pegged as "reboot central"

3. Cutting the Cable Cord. People cutting cable due to cost is much more impactful than we realize. Networks are taking huge hits in ratings because of this, even the network I work for which broadcasts certain events in the athletic nature. Millions of viewers might sound like a lot, but ratings across the board have been at an all time low this year. Even more of a reason why I think the show would have done better on Netflix.

Those are just my thoughts about the matter. Even though I despised most of the writing, there were a few really good episodes that truly inspired me. I am genuinely disappointed that GMW wasn't given the chance to grow further and cover more hard hitting topics, but maybe we can all dream for another network to pick up the show. Boy Meets World survived a network change after all!