re: First review for Girl Meets World

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WTF happened to the blond headed younger sister. If this show was written in any time-space reality, there'd have been a subplot of Cory's friend getting up in her sandwich meat by the college episode

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Cory was at the end of middle school when Morgan was still playing with dolls and teacups. You can guesstimate their ages are roughly 8 years apart, so college episodes she would be just entering teendom.

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How Eric managed to get into college and maintain there for any sort of period is unrealistic

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In HS Eric gets to a point where he legitimately tries hard and studies. The episode in particular where the hot tutor tries to give him the answers so he can go to Europe, but he refuses so he can find them himself. It's not implausible that he did well on an entrance test. Plus, it's Pennbrook, not Harvard.

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He was written as a straight man the first few seasons "Life's tough, get a helmet"...but then became some bumbling baffoon towards the end. It was too outlandish for his character's arc.

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Everybody, including die hard show lovers like myself, agree on that. But I mean are you really saying one of your biggest issues with the show is a character being too outlandish? When they got to Penn they already had the smooth ladies man in Jack, they didn't need Eric to fill that role. Plus, after his fat phase he ended up reverting back to "normal".

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Shawn's family and character arc is a bit dramatized to where he bounces between redeemable and redeemed without one real discernible direction.

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Totally disagree. Shawn actually had the most straightforward character arc of anyone besides Cory. Grew up in a trailer park, trashy family, no dad around. So he turned to crime, hated school, acted up, partied. In high school he was less of a shitehead but was still the unpredictable, loose cannon he always was with his ONE real connection in life being his relationship with his best friend. Enter college and he's a weird emo punk with an interracial gf (more rebellion). All his life all he's ever wanted is acceptance...you can see it with Chet, with the Matthews', with Turner, with Jack, with Angela's dad, etc.

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Cory's character is probably the most enjoyable on the show because in actuality, most teenagers are boring, dealing with boring melodramatic minor nonsense. Ben Savage did a great job of playing a boring middle class kid with good parental supervision.

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that doesn't seem like a complaint.

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Topanga's arc. They didn't really ever develop her family

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Why should they? They were irrelevant...you can't do a background on every character ever in a show. People would get pissed if they dedicated more time to them. Plus, we did get their background. Her parents were crazy nuts in the early years which is why she was so loony in elementary school. We also see them divorce later on which is a big storyline in the later years dealing with them and Pittsburgh.

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Any problems or angst with Topanage was Savage centered

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See above, not quite accurate. Also, there was a major conflict between her wanting to go to a different college before settling on Pennbrook. And I mean, they are the main power couple. Obviously most of her issues will involve Cory.

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she was a smart bright kid, but that was played out and the achievement factor in BMW overall was rarely emphasized.

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Wow, disagree. It's actually a pretty common theme throughout their school years that Feeny gets tired of her being the only one to answer questions.

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Think Minkus

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Minor character that they decided the show didn't need so they did away with him. Who cares?

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6. Weird bike riding, poetry spitting Enlgish Teacher. I've never known a male teacher like that in HS. He was supposed to be the younger version of Feeney that could connect with the kids. But instead, seemed like some perv that tried to teach life lessons to Shawn.

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So? That's a complaint? By the time the gang was in upper high school their viewing age had grown as well, so they gave a middle man between the high schoolers and the geriatric feeny. He was the cool guy that gave them another adult to turn to. Not sure why that's a problem. He also was a solid person that they could turn to. When he was about to kick Mr. Mack's arse in the hospital, when he stopped Harley from spray painting the school, etc. I will admit it was very odd that shawn lived with him, but whatever.

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Mr. Feeney must have hated every other student in his 35 year career excapt Corey, Shawn and Topanga. Well, just Corey really because the rest wouldn't have mattered I imagine if they weren't somehow connected to Savage

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Again, it's a TV show centered around a few main characters. What possible justification would there have been to show his interactions with everyone else? Why didn't Saved By the Bell show all the other classes at Bayside that the main characters weren't in? Because it doesn't matter.