To add to the mix, I just remembered the episode where Hyacinth (Katy) comes to the kids’ school and confesses, disappointingly, that she is a waitress, thus leading to uncomfortable silence from the class. On that note, on what planet is being a waitress something to be embarrassed about? Sure it’s not a high paying job, sure it doesn’t require a degree, but at the end of the day, she has a job and I really dislike the implication that working in a diner is something to be ashamed of. One of my favorite movies is Annie, and in Annie, she longs to have a family and gets one at the end (spoiler alert). But in Annie, she initially didn’t have parents AT ALL and lived in an orphanage with an ab*sive caretaker and several other girls, one of which she shared a twin sized bed with. In that case it makes sense for her to want Oliver Warbucks to adopt her because she wasn’t getting affection, comfort, shelter etc. from any direction. In the Hurricane episode, Maya uses the word “better” to describe what victims hoped for post Hurricane Katrina, thus alluding to her life being “better” if she had a dad. Maya’s life isn’t perfect but it sure doesn’t come CLOSE to that of Katrina victims, and it certainly isn’t something to teach kids to be unhappy about. Implying that with Shawn, her life would be “better” is implying that her life was not good enough with just her and Tessa (Katy), and that, friends, is not a good message. Getting a father is not going to make her life miraculously perfect. Pre-Shawn, Maya had an employed mother who loves her, Maya had a roof over her head, Maya had a best friend whose family treats her like one of their own. (Maya had the beautiful face of Sabrina Carpenter). Maya was fine. Also if you’re like a 12 year old who loves Girl Meets World and is mad about this video, please go write about your frustration in your diary because the entire point of this was to address real life r*cial d*scrimination that translated into fiction, and there are people in these comments like, “Why are you so upset, it’s just a kids show 🤪”

Shawn marrying Maya’s mom made his and Maya’s relationship less special. As a father figure, he is a man willingly stepping in to care for a young girl in need, but marrying her mom turned it into him simply fulfilling fatherly obligations, rather than doing this out of the kindness of his heart

A better plotline would be Shawn and Angela planning to get married and Maya trying to break it up so Shawn can be with her mom. Then the mom explains that she's not interested in dating right now and her and Shawn are just friends. Angela and Maya could also bond and Angela could become a second mentor for Maya. Then at the end of the show we all get to see Shawn and Angela get married.

All Shawn needed to say. " She used to be my girlfriend but she moved to Europe to be with her father. That's just how life goes sometimes. But no they wanted forced drama.

I hate that they antagonized Angela, and FORCED Shawn to be with Katy just so he can be Maya’s new step dad🙃it’s so annoying

ALSO-in the episode where Angela leaves and specifically says, “Let’s not say goodbye-let’s say I love you”, SHAWN’S ass says “Goodbye, Angela” when she’s out the door. HE WAS THE ONE WHO GAVE UP.

justice for angela. they really changed shawn's character just like that.

changing mayas mums name every time is gold💀

Disney tried so hard to ruin Angela’s character and it only ruined the show and everybody else’s character. Angela deserved so much better.

After Trina called her cast mates out for r@cism, i noticed people thinking that she chose not to do the reboot because of it. Meanwhile it seems that it wasn’t that SHE didn’t want to come back, but instead, her cast mates didn’t want her to come back

Here's what I don't understand, they could've still had Shawn end up with Katy without demonizing Angela. People who love each other don't always end up together because life gets in the way. It would be WAY more realistic if Angela and Shawn had a great relationship that ended amicably because of normal reasons and they remained friends. Most people don't end up with their highschool bf/gf. Doesn't mean you have to hate them to end up with someone else.

I am so tired of ppl pretending that shawn and angela’s gmw reunion was “realistic” when it was really just a racially motivated nostalgia baiting joke.

Can we all just collectively pretend like girl meets world doesn’t exist at all?! This show literally offered nothing good or important to the original series

I don’t understand why Maya couldn’t have just been Shawn and Angela’s child? Like, maybe something happened that got them back together, and they had a kid. That way we could have had Cory, Topanga, Shawn AND Angela all be together to influence their children’s lives? And actually impact the show like they did with BMW? SMH 🤦‍♀️

Personally, I feel like they should have just made Maya Shawn and Angela's daughter, either biological, in which they cast a mixed-race girl to play as Maya, or through adoption, if they really wanted Sabrina Carpenter to play her. Heck, if they chose the "Maya being Shawn and Angela's adoptive daughter" route, they could have made it tie-in to when Turner originally was to adopt Shawn, and it could be seen as Shawn doing what Turner was unable to do all those years ago. Also, I feel like we should have just started the series off with both couples married and with children - Cory and Topanga with Riley as their daughter, and Shawn and Angela with Maya as their daughter, instead of Shawn trying to get his love life together as GMW did.

This show isn't canon. The original writers would never allow this.

I honestly believe they did Angela's character so dirty because the actress called out her cast mates for being racist towards her in the past. Her being written out with the marriage was the writers basically saying, "here she is, and here she goes, never to be back"

Damn I knew the “ending” of their storyline was bad but I didn’t know it was THAT bad. The little white girl walking up to a grown woman she DOES NOT KNOW and giving her the rudest little “hi” is insane to me. Raise your child better than that Cory. Wtf.

The way all the previous cast members got audience applause with a cute little wink wink nudge nudge ‘yeah they’re here!’ While Angela was prepped to be hated and discarded before she even stepped foot on set really highlights all those rumors about bmw behind the scenes.

Hurricane katrina?!?!?!?! Send these writers to JAIL!!!!!!

"Do you want a dad or do you want your mom to have a husband" is such a good summary. I didn't watch Boy Meets World but Angela sounds incredible. I can't believe there wasn't more backlash for writing Angela out. I'm upset on her behalf. And this whole plot is so poorly handled - I wish Maya could have accepted that he would be in her life and care about her regardless of his relationship with her mother.

One of the things that makes me crazy about GMW was that the whole show (when the old cast appears at least) is basically a reference to the season 7 episode of Boy Meets World “The War” which is supposed to be the worst case future scenario. In that episode Angela is portrayed as the one that got away, Jack is the unfeeling business man , Eric is a hobbit man, and Cory and Topanga are friendless parents. Sound familiar?!? GMW becomes that terrible future scenario and even though I loved it at the time, looking back on it I am so disappointed. This video was a great analysis btw. Justice for Angela :((

Why couldn't Maya have been in foster care and then became Shawn's foster daughter who he eventually adopts? Because Katie wasn't originally talked about in a good light, then boom here comes Shawn who Maya got attached to and suddenly Katie wasn't a bad mom anymore, just a misunderstood struggling single mom ripe for Shawn tend up with just so he could adopt Maya.

will NEVER forgive them for having the girls re-use the feeny call without will friedle's permission/input because he literally made it up, not the writers

When I learned that Angela married someone else and moved on, I was happy for her. And I understand that couples move on and so just stay friends after the breakup, but to break up one of the best interracial relationships on television, that was just low on so many levels. And what makes this worse is that Trina got called out by the young fans of girl meets world for trying to ruin Shawn and Maya’s mom getting together….. I’m like go watch Shawn and Angela boy meets world scenes and that will tell you who are the better couple

YOU CHANGING MAYA'S MOM NAME EVERYTIME YOU SPOKE OF HER IM DEAD LOL

personally for me the weirdest part of Shawn's Romeo and Juliet line for me was both him and Angela stated they wanted something like Cory and Topanga, but felt like they'd never get it and they still took a chance on each other. they loved each other so much it was clear every time they talked, and while Cory was a big advocate for there relationship when they weren't together he was never the reason they got back together which was why Angela's final episode was so important. Cory kept pushing what Topanga did for him when she decided to not go to Yale, but he understands how much her father means to her so he let her go which was the truest sign he loved her

Y'know what might have made Shawn being Maya's dad work? If instead of him marrying into her family via her mom and becoming her stepfather, what if...Shawn was already Maya's biological dad? Imagine if...Shawn was a single dad trying to be the best dad he could to raise his daughter Maya (parallelling his struggles from BMW) after the loss of his wife. Like let's say Maya's mom isn't in the picture cause she passed away prior to the story and the two had to adjust to a life without her because Maya's mom used to be the light of their family. So it's a story about a father and daughter bonding over shared grief and learning to lean on each other after suffering a great loss. And ultimately, instead of Angella returning to be a "problem". Instead of her being a "hurricane", she is instead a ball of sunshine. A beacon of hope that returns to the story to have her and Shawn rekindle their love story and have the happy ending the two were supposed to have at the end of BMW. It would have been cool to see Angella become Maya's stepmother and see them bond instead of the complete assassination of her character that was done in the GMW.

The different in quality between Boy Meets World and Girl Meets World is a perfect example of how adults in the 90s understood, respected, and listened to young people and therefore were better at writing coming of age stories than adults in the 2010s were. 99% of the time, when I see a coming of age story from the 2010s or even 2020s, it feels like there's some sort of agenda and that the adults writing the teen characters don't respect or care about their characters or target audience at all, which, of course, ruins the story.

My personal canon is that Shawn and Katy only lasted a year and swiftly divorced. He remains in Maya’s life as a mentor but finds himself reconnecting with Angela.

If they wanted """"realism"""" so badly, why not have Topanga and Cory divorce instead? Their romance lasting as long as it did isn't realistic, and I think the ensuing drama could have been really interesting. What if Riley lives with her mom Topanga, but still gets to have a relationship with her dad Cory because he's her teacher? And Maya can be the adopted daughter of Shawn and Angela (who are happily married), right from the get-go?

now imagine Maya's mom was lesbian. She's got no choice but to marry Shawn just because Maya wants it

Shawn saying he loves Maya's mom more than he loves Cory is the most cap thing I've ever heard.

ALSO the fact they refer to Angela as Hurricane Katrina and the actress’ name is TRINA

They could’ve had Angela come on the show with her husband and it turns out she and Shawn were friends in touch the whole time, and he was even at her wedding or something. But they did Trina McGee dirty on this one. Also the fact that they didn’t keep in touch…whatever happened to “lose one friend, lose all friends, lose yourself?” The little mantra they learned after they shamed Rachel in the last season for a risqué picture or something, an iconic line that Eric said. According to the premise of the show if you lose your friends, you lose yourself. But screw Angela, Jack and Rachel right?

Shawn and Angela were my favorite couple on boy meets world. There relationship felt more real and earned than Cory and Topanga. They were also the two best characters in Boy Meets World. My heart broke when she moved, and I loved the idea that they would come together again at a later point. And then I heard what Girl Meets World did to Angela and I was so angry. ETA: Also, what happened to Angela being Topanga's best friend?

i honestly wish they left angela out altogether with how poorly she was treated, at the very least only shawns character would be heavily wounded by these god awful writers if she was left alone

Honestly, Angela dodged a bullet not marrying Shawn. Would have to deal with the rest of cast lol

The writing in Girl Meets World is proof of how stubborn and immature elders have become. How could these writers have been so progressive and genuinely innovative with their storytelling for Boy Meets World in the 90s, but not for GMW in the 2010s. I think old people have grown so condescending and unempathetic to the young experience. And it seems as though people's true colors come out when they get in those old ages. I don't know what happened, maybe they saw how we bring problematic things to light, and grew bitter, so they don't want to be a part of the solution, and instead will just be more rigid in their conservatorship...holding themselves back from growth. It's a real shame that Angela's character and her relationship with Shawn wasn't given the respect it deserves. I hope those writers at least have some level of regret...I'm sure they won't though, with how out of touch yet preachy this show was, they definitely aren't even aware of how entitled and annoying their know-it-all but dead wrong writing comes off

this show has such a youth pastor vibe to me and the fact that the only way Shawn can be Maya's father figure is by marrying her mother really doesn't help it also god, I havent gotten to see the original BMW, but it makes me so sad to see how Angela and Shawn are written after seeing all this. To me the best romances are ones where they bring out the best in each other, that one Miyazaki quote about characters who inspire each other to live basically; and the way GMW trashes all of that is so disheartening

I can't believe that they had Shawn say that he only loved her because he wanted what Topanga and Corey had. Meanwhile, he wrote the most beautiful poem for Angela. She was his muse. When did he write a poem for Kate again?

At least there's one consistency between the two shows- writers who conveniently FoRgEt the storylines they themselves wrote for their own show

Having Angela and Shawn permanently break up just so Shawn could be the yt protagonist's yt bestie's new dad is sooooooo....ghetto actually. All that build up in BMW for....him to marry some random yt lady that we barely know.🙃🙃 Like, at least give us something better than that. Have Angela be a main cast member in GMW with her own important storyline at the very least to make up for breaking her and Shawn up. But no 😒, we get repetitive tropes. Also. why did Shawn HAVE to be Maya's dad so badly? Maya already has her bff's parents to serve as secondary parental figures and mentor figures. She can have multiple father figures without Shawn marrying Katy. This plotline was so weak and forced.

NGL, if I were Shawn, being called a jerk for daring to wonder what was up with my ex girlfriend would make me wish I'd stayed away from my best friend and his family. The way they handled Shawngela was so gross. Also, the fact that they had to get Shawn and Maya's mother together (tf even was her name?) was so stupid considering the original show had Jonathan Turner who was like a father to Shawn and he hadn't adopted him or married one of his parents. And Feeny treated Shawn, Cory, Topanga, and Eric as if they were his kids. He wasn't biologically related to him in the way. It's as if the show thought everyone was stupid and would forget how Shanwgela "ended" on Boy Meets World, with Shawn telling Angela that she should go spend time with her dad while she had the chance because he couldn't get that with his own father.

Off topic, but Angela's wig when she shows up on GMW is so atrocious the stylist had to be plotting against her wtf!!!! I know Disney has a history of not hiring proper stylist to do their Black actors' hair, but this is a newer show!!! Angela is so gorgeous she deserves better!!!

It would have been way more compelling for Maya to continue to form a found family than an actual family.. but then again, at that point, gmw's writing team had made it pretty clear it wasn't after a well-written show to rival bmw, it was after Nostalgia bait. gmw is just another cut-and-paste Disney sitcom that had an over-inflated view of itself. Shawn should have been married to Angela, it honestly would have been sweeter to see Maya go through an arc where she meets Shawn, imprints on him, and finds out he's married to the love of his life so is disappointed he can never truly be her dad, but because of the bond the two of them have formed kind of gets pseudo adopted by the couple- like maybe there could have been a plot in which the couple is either deciding to have a child or having difficulty conceiving, and/or the trauma of his childhood has made becoming father something Shawn struggles with but it's a point of contention between the couple because Angela really wants to be a mom. it would tie into the Shawn/Turner dynamic as well, Shawn's finding himself filling the place of his own past mentor the way that Corey is also taking the place of Feeny so it continues on from bmw instead of just using bmw as a way to get "omg I remember them!" point from the audience. introducing Maya into their home could add something to their dynamic, but instead the writing team felt the only way for Maya and Shawn to have any form of Father-daughter relationship is that they needed to be ACTUAL father and daughter... which honestly takes away from Maya's overarching character who acts as the Matthew's new little charity case. bmw, though very flawed, pushed boundaries with its topics and characters, the 90s allowed sitcoms to explore things that the 2010s sitcoms seem to be too afraid even approach. back when the show was first airing I had the mindset that if it were on a different network, gmw would have been better, but honestly, after seeing its completion, I think the creator of bmw might have just lost his touch when it comes to writing compelling storylines that aren't right-wing propaganda pieces wrapped up in a progressive bow. lowkey I wish I could see a world in which the gmw team actually put the effort in, it was such wasted potential.

You'd think with Riley being her best friend that she'd view Corey as father figure. Kinda how Shawn would go to him when he needed something before Mr.Turner. heck you could see that Corey's dad saw Shawn as another son and treated him wirh the same love he showed for Corey and Eric.

I am not a black person, but a passionate fan of Shawn and Angela, their pairing felt accessible and real to me in a way Cory and Topanga never was. I was so angry about her exclusion, her demonization. I honestly stopped watching when I saw they had no intention of properly bringing her back in.

This show is so contrived. " Asking your ex if you should have babies with your husband. What is this nonsense?"

i have no clue as to why they didn’t just make maya shawn and angela’s adopted parents being that shawn comes from a rough background and he would want to give a child a chance to live a life with parents who care. maya’s arc could’ve been wanting to meet her birth mother, who could’ve been katy.

I will never forgive them for what they did to Angela and Shawn, they were the better couple in my opinion

I don't consider girl meets world cannon. It's defiantly an AU. 100%.

“i love angela, because i thought i was supposed to” the gmw writers better sleep with one eye open because i cannot let that slide

I watched Gmw before BMW and I had a completely different visual for Angela. When her moments were showed, I was like “is this the right woman?” I legitimately thought there was gonna be another Angela or she was gonna switch up on Shawn.

riley and maya doing the ‘feeny’ line was genuinely so hard to watch

SHAWN AND MYA'S MOM LITERALLY HAD NO CHEMISTRY..............🙄🤦 HIM AND ANGELA FOREVER ❤

I need a fanfic of Maya as a foster kid who got adopted by Shawn and Angela.

"a wolf in sheeps clothing wtf is that bro 😭" killed me.

I will ALWAYS be a gmw hater bc of what they did to Angela and Shawn’s relationship. Literally my blood boils if I think about this for too long. Looking back I should’ve had low hopes bc of how they wrote all those other topics.

I'm surprised that Maya and Riley didn't nickname Angela, Demonla with how much they demonized her like this Wicked Witch.

When I found out that Shawn married maya’s mom, I wasn’t the biggest fan of the ship, I loved Shawn and Angela so when I found out that the creator didn’t support the ship but the fans did. I want maya’s mother to be happy but with Shawn. I would rather have her mother get with an old high school boyfriend.

In my mind, Maya’s mum left and Shawn and Angela found each other and adopted Maya

Idk if it would have been the same if angela wasn't black, but girl meets world is just BAD

Cory could have easily been written as a father figure if Maya was in such a need for one. Angela and Shawn's story was so sweet and way more sincere. I just don't get what the writers were thinking 😭

Here's how I would've rewrote mayas arc along with Shawn, Angelas, and Katys. Maya would've either been a child in the foster care system at the very start of the series or would've been living with her mom until later on. In both cases, she would have met Shawn and Angela (a MARRIED) couple who decide to adopt her (if Maya was living with her mom, she would've agreed to have her adopted by Shawn and Angela so she could've had a better life with them and maybe in the finale we could've seen an older Maya meeting up with her mom again.)

As you were showing the first clips I thought to myself "wow I never realized this show was so white as a kid" and then you mentioned it 30 seconds later lol

I think it is also because boy meets world was aired on abc so their show did not have to fit into the confines of a disney channel series, but Girl meets world was solely produced by disney channel which is extremely more conservative and mainly aimed towards children. It is kind of sad that the writers felt like in order for the show to succeed they had to villainize anything that was different in order to appeal to the network, when it would have been healthier for children to portray differences in a positive light.

Girls Meet Trash was just hard-core mediocre trash. I will never forgive them for what they did to Angela, especially with them putting that party city wig on her

Am I the only one who noticed that she changed the name of mayas mom every time she mentioned her 😭

The only thing I love from Girl Meets World is the relationship between Riley and Farkle, like that’s REAL love🫶could’ve been the new & improved Cory and Topanga

Shawn and Mayas mom relationship wont last.

I never watched GMW, but I remember one day just watching compilations of Shawn being in the show for no reason. Every time they mentioned Angela, I felt like I was being gaslighted cause that’s not how I remembered their relationship. I’m glad I wasn’t overthinking it. They really did Angela dirty.

Gmw could NEVER be like BMW. On BMW the actor's chemistry and the storylines were unmatchable and seemed so genuine Gmw couldn't capture that in a million years BMW had depth and real emotion gmw is nothing but some immature clearance section Great Value knockoff !

The show is just writing the black woman out and have the same character again with less chemistry to the love interest but with a white woman 🙄

THE PARENT TRAP SCENE HAD ME DYING.

Something that’s always confused me about Angela’s departure on BMW is how the show positions Angela accepting Shawn’s proposal as a means for her to stay with Shawn instead of going with her father, since Shawn could go with Angela to Europe if they get married. I figure Angela’s father is allowed to take Angela to Europe since they’re family, so if Shawn and Angela get married, Shawn could be allowed to go to Europe with the Moores due to being Angela’s spouse and in turn family. Granted, I don’t know much about the military so maybe this isn’t allowed, but I’ve always felt like a more fitting ending for BMW would be Shawn and Angela saying their goodbyes to Cory, Topanga, and the rest of the cast as they go to Europe and truly “meet the world” together.

The random mentions of broadway musicals got me😭😭

GMW was racist. I think people shouldn't overlook it.

Shawn should have left with Angela and her dad im BMW. They didnt have to do her so dirty. Also i am kind of annoyed Rider went along with this story line.

I'll never count girl meets World as canon... At least not fully i like the father-daughter storyline but he didn't need to marry her mom, maybe they could have handled it but instead maybe Maya that the man has a life too

Nah, that hurricane comparison is diabolical. This show keeps ageing worse and worse. Some of these scenes are making me physically cringe 😂

I watched gmw when I was a kid and I remember not thinking much of Angela, since she was only name dropped from time to time and only appeared once. Now watching this I feel upset on her behalf, and kinda illustrates how bmw is probably a better show

they could have at least had it where Maya was in a similar situation to Shawn in season 3 of BMW where both her parents abandoned her and Shawn does what Turner wasn’t ready to do and adopts her and becomes a single dad then later runs into Angela, reigniting the flame. They get married and Maya has a family , what she always wanted. That would’ve been far more interesting. But anyway, thanks for confirming that I should never finish GMW

I refuse to see girl meets world as cannon

Love your channel. Please continue the content of hating girl meets world. Shawn and Angela should have been endgame 💯 But it's OK, tho because Shawn and Angela are the people's choice. This is why they always invite Rider and Trina to interviews or comic cons because the higher ups understand that people gravitate to them more. You never really see "Shawn and Katy" winning ship polls or the actress playing Katy invited to discuss her character being with Shawn Hunter. Because they know that relationship was not popular. Rider Strong himself knows how impactful Shawn and Angela have been.

"didnt defend maya wheen lucas called her short" 😂😂😂😂

they should of just had maya be an orphan and had shawn and angela reconnect and adopt angela

Topanga just be lyin 😭35:58

Omg the underline and obvious racism is just ☠️

I like the actress who plays Riley but Girl Meets world is so awful. I can’t let it ruin how I feel about the original series

my mind cannot boggle the fact that they would just write out one of if not the ONLY black girl in that show just to make room for a white blonde suburban housewife. It's been a while since I've watched the show, like 7 years. But I have a feeling I described Katy, Sabrina, Jenna, pretty well.

i’ve never seen that parent trap clip being used like that omg lmaoooo that caught me off guard i busted out laughing

The Angela episode would have made so much more sense if she was still friends with Topanga and came to talk to her about her nerves about having kids. Corey could still be sore because he was always over dramatic and saw things from very narrow often false povs that helped reestablish his worldview. But Shawn could have been there with Maya when she was waiting for Topanga and he could have introduced her as an ex girlfriend and kept talking nicely until Topanga showed up and Angela could leave saying something like, "I wish i could have hung out with my dad like that when i was her age." Maya could have been happy about someone thinking they were father/daughter but also worried that he might marry someone beside her mom and stop caring about her. At the end of the episode she might be telling Riley all of this when Angela walks in the coffee shop before she plans to head out of town and she stops by to say bye to "her friend's daughters." Maya might break down crying and say she's not actually Shawn's kid. Angela could say she already knew that but whenever she talks to Shawn he talks about her like an excited dad and Maya didn't need to worry about Shawn ever stopping because he's loyal to the people he loves, and he really loves her. Angela could still be married to someone else because I wouldn't have been able to trust these writers with her as a regular character.

This couple deserved better writers for the girls meet world series, I'm sure that if they were consistent with the characters personalities they would've make their relationship work, probably gotten married, having kids if they wanted, and always keep respect for each other bc of how much they meant and their impact on each other. I know relationships can be loving and still not work, but the way it was portrayed so insignificant its insulting and sad (I never watched boy meets world, only Angela's and Shawn's story on yt, I only need that)

It now makes sense given that isn’t the actress who plays Angela named Katrina??? That’s actually insane.

My mouth DROPPED at 37:37, that’s an insane statement. Shawn AND Angela always made it very clear to Corey and Topanga they were not them. Yea, sometimes Shawn would say he wanted what Corey had…but no no no he was very cognizant that his relationship with Angela was independent from his best friend’s relationship. There’s a reason sometimes Corey/Topanga were off but Shawn/Angela were on and vice versa - neither couple was being influenced by the other.

Wow- For someone who grew up on Girl Meets World and didn't know anything of Boy Meets World then, this was eye-opening. And it's really interesting to think how since I was younger than the characters at the time I watched it, I did root for Katy and Shawn because I didn't know anything about Angela other than what I was told by the show (GMW) itself. Also, I didn't even notice the fully white cast despite being a person of colour myself cuz it seemed "normal" to me at the time. It would've been cool to see Maya/Zay but no they HAD TO do a love triangle thing with Lucas, Maya and Riley. Now, realising all this stuff about Angela and more importantly Trina and how she was treated is so frustrating. Also, the fact that Rider was one of the few people in the cast who was actually nice to her speaks volume on how toxic the general environment would've been around her.

Me they could have had Maya’s mom end up with Eric , Cory’s brother who is single if I remember right . And always wanted a woman like maya but never seemed to have any luck with love .

Literally who the hell wrote this show

I found a fan theory that said Angela had grown out blonde dyed hair/ her roots showing compared to maya's mom's blonde hair to prove that Angela was no longer meant for Shawn but maya's mom is now. IDK the whole thing is honestly stupid