thinking since '98

i haven't seen every episode of boy meets world - i only watched it when it was on tv - but i did see the last episode and, boy, did i cry like a baby. when mr feeney said for the final time, 'class dismissed', a little part of me died. so when i heard they were making its successor, i added it to my list of guilty disney pleasures.

but i still do not believe that it's a kids show. these kids are more mature and sophisticated then i am now. half the time, i don't even know what's happening in the episode and i'm like 10 years older than the target audience. but i watch it anyways because it feels smart and i want to seem smart.

and there's no way that they are in middle school. when i was in middle school, i was either playing pokemon or making scoobies. i was not questioning the meaning of life and having educated discussions on the rules of society with my worldly friends. just in the last episode, they were discussing religion and how to choose where your faith lies. these are topics that i hadn't even considered thoroughly until recently. the only time i thought about religion when i was in middle school was when i thought i had to hide that i was buddhist because i thought my anglican school would kick me out.

also, they should just cut all fake pretences that they're attending a history class. it's philosophy. why are they teaching a philosophy class in middle school? i don't know, but the real question is why are those 12 year old girls wearing outfits straight off a runway and not just clothes covered in glitter like a normal 12 year old person?

i'll admit, the characters are a bit stereotypical - riley is your human puppy and maya is your human cat - and i would have liked more of a multicultural cast (there wasn't really a significant person of colour in the main group until zay was introduced and even then he's just comedic relief) but it's really nice of them to accept all different kinds of people like lucas who's assumedly been held back a lot and even though he's probably 20 all the other kids treat him exactly like everyone else in the class because otherwise there is no way he is supposed to be in middle school. that boy has more muscles than my school's entire football team.

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