Will they, won‘t they?
It's a disney-show. And we all know disney. Disney is not about reality, it's about fairytales. And that's okay. It's colourful, it's funny, it has interesting characters, although it's not too political, it let's you dream for a better world. It let's you forget the real world. Because, imagine a world in which a teenage girls only problems are a lost teddy bear or if a certain person loves her back? We can argue if that's good or bad, or superficial, because the 90ies show was in fact more accurate, more real. On the other hand, one can admit, that we had that type of show before, why hate the fact that someone’s telling the story in a different way or genre? Because of the lacking kissing scenes? I don't know... It's still a show on a kids channel. Remember the show Hey Arnold!, in which Helgas mother was often tired and confused? Remember all the "smoothies" she drank? I'm saying, the way you tell a story to kids is a bit diffrent, than you would tell it to adults, and that's what makes it so innocent, yet beautiful. Helgas mum was hinted to be an alcoholic.
Well, if you accept the fact, that the old story of how a person becomes a grown-up is told as a fairytale, you will understand why people ship Riley with Farkle. Fairytales have clear lines, with clear problems, clear solutions and very clear morals, which is often annoying. After older trope's as there were "girl meets prince, gets kidnapped and rescued" or "prince needs to become a man and after that gets the girl" people discovered new tropes. A very strong but not so old one is the "ugly duckling/beautiful swan" trope, where one of the main characters has a huge transformation, it was used mostly on women, but is getting more popular on guys too since the millenium. Then there is the "best friends/will they, won't they?/how could i've been so bilnd?"-trope, and that's the non-plus ultra in tv shows since the 80ies. The main factor, why it's so popular is, because it brings a new layer to all the clear lines, it gives us a meaning, we could not understand right away. The moral is "Look behind, what is clear", a way to make the main story arch more complex, which is very appealing when it comes to fairytales. Of course there are a lot more tropes, like "sometimes true love is found in a person who loved you all the way, like your sister or best friend. no insecurities, no disappointment", which is a wonderful way of telling a new fairytale, as we could see in Frozen, and i think that this will be the main moral in Girl meets World. What I honestly hope is, that Disney won’t just go for the "Girl meets boy, falls in love, gets married"-thing, it's just too obvious, even for a fairytale. A modern fairytale needs at least one or two deeper thoughts to it, more than one layer. If the main arch would be "a girl could do anything she wants, as long as she has her core five people loving her, the first being her best firend." i would love that, but I'm just afraid, that the whole Prince Charming-arch would destroy it. The only way I believe, disney could add another layer to the story line is if they went for the "ugly duckling"/"it's always been right infront of me" arch. If the writers are true to themselves, they would admit, that they built it all they way and we fell for it, for a reason. And the first proof is, that the community has gotten very quite since Riarkle has been “declared” dead a few months ago.
WE all miss Riarkle, and all those scenes where Farkle is in the classroom lurking at Riley, smiling because of her goofiness. Bring those moments back!
