Big-Ambitions-8258 t1_j1thz2l wrote on December 27, 2022 at 7:05 AM

I wouldn't necessarily say they were vanilla, but Cory and Topanga's relationship really frustrated me at times. They retconned a lot of her weirdness and made her suddenly childhood sweethearts with Cory despite them not knowing much about each other at the start of Boys Meet World and it felt like the writers had to have them be together despite there being an interesting alternative of it simply not working out but having a lot of love for each other.

He chases her with a sign that he'd follow her everywhere the first time they break up. Topanga gave up Yale for him. He initially lies about kissing another girl. She breaks up with him bc of her parents divorcing. I just felt that their relationship was super codependent at times, where they "HAD" to be together to be complete when they should have focused on who they were outside the relationship. Neither of them really dated other people in a serious manner.

I did think they ruined Angela's character in the GMW series. They openly dreaded her returning into their lives which didn't make sense to me bc she and Shawn broke up on good terms to discover their identities outside of their relationship and grow up and experience other things. Not only that but she barely spoke to Topanga despite them being best friends for a significant portion of their lives. Allow the characters to have the maturity of growth. They didn't have to get back together, but to use her as a prop for another character was disrespectful to the actor and the character.

TheFantasticXman1 OP t1_j21bz3y wrote on December 28, 2022 at 11:06 PM

Yeah, it was weird how much they retconned surrounding Cory and Topanga's history and Topanga suddenly not being the weird hippy anymore. There wasn't even any sort of slow transition. She just dropped the hippyness after season 1.

I did really used to love Corey and Topanga and I still do, but over time, I kind of realised how insufferable the two are, both apart and together. More so Corey though. Like the whole storyline of him having an emotional affair with Lauren, Topanga telling him to go on a date with Lauren and Corey actually LISTENING to her. Like WTF? I never understood why she broke up with him when he ultimately chose her over Lauren, but now I definitely do and she was quite right to.

Yeah, still so pissed at their massacre of Angela- all for the sake of Katy. A character who will never EVER measure up to Angela and again, a character who they had to tear down someone else to prop her up. And then they tried making us believe Shawn loved her more than he ever loved Angela? Pfft. Give me a break!

The reason why Topanga and Angela didn't have a scene together in GMW was because Danielle Fischel and Trina McGee still weren't on speaking terms at the time the episode aired. Danielle only apologised for her past actions recently. It's a shame, but not surprising.