No one was happy to do another Halloween Terror Episode! The promos for the episode show that it has some potential. A world where Riley and Maya, and seemingly no one else are friends. This could be good . . . . and then . . . .- We begin in out normal/present time. Corey wishes his class Happy Halloween, Riley and friends say they outgrew it. Lucas makes a joke about he and Riley being the most important relationship, which every laughs at because we all know it isn’t true. Auggie enters dressed as a ghost, announced the third Halloween special, to which every groans (what if this happened and was not suppose to make it into the episode?).
Spooky . . . - This takes us back to the . . . . minis- thank God they didn’t speak. Mini Maya never met Mini Riley because the bay window was closed.
Riley’s best friend is that stupid bear, Maya is Riley’s bully, Lucas is a lone cowboy because Zay never moved to NY, Farkle never evolved from season 1, Smack was just stereotypical nerd, circa Save the Bell era, and Corey only taught class, not life lessons. Topanga stayed the same and for some reason, Auggie was never born, but Ava and her new boyfriend Dewy/Doy still annoyed hung out with Topanga.
These monsters returned . . . 
He's Farkle time, get it? - Riley asks if her class can evolve around her and her friends, but Corey tells her all that he teaches are names and dates. Maya the bully makes Riley do her homework, but if the grade is too good, she threatens to beat up Riley.
Cowboy Lucas encourages Riley to not be a sheep or duck, and be eaten by the wolves aka Maya.
"Why are you wearing a large bow?" -Maya 
Lucas breaks the news that he is Riley's love interest . . . - For some reason, halfway throughout the episode, the story becomes, because Riley and Maya never met, Auggie was never born, so narrator Auggie is in danger of not existing. His first step to correct things is to try to put Farkle and Smackle back together. This fails and results in a heartbroken Smackle.
He then tries to restore Riley and Maya’s friendship, but it too fails. The next day in class, upon being called on, Maya sets up a time to beat Riley up. This scene was actually my favorite.
Smackle channels her inner Violet from Saved by the Bell . . . 
Notice, Riley is just coloring in class . . . - Riley later feels everything is wrong in the world and it’s all her fault. Agreed. Corey gives her advice that changes her and begins to wonder if he should begin teaching this way.
- Ava breaks up Dewy/Doy, and ghost Auggie tells her he loves her, but she of course doesn’t hear it.
"Who are you and what are you doing in my house?" Topanga - In the quick Disney tie everything up in the last two minutes, Riley reasons with Maya and they become friends, Farkle and Smakcle suddenly become interested in one another and ghost Auggie is no longer ghost Auggie, as Riley and friends now see him wandering around as a ghost.
The episode comes full circle when we jump back into the past and see Corey open Mini Riley’s bay window so Maya can crawl in. The End!
This is exactly how I see their relationship . . . awkward . . . 
"Check out this bear I stole like 3 episodes back." -Mini Riley
*****Extra Tidbits*****
- In case you missed it, the show literally spelled out the secret of life for us: “people change people!”
"People Change People" - GMW writers - If Auggie never existed, why would Ava and Dewy/Doy still barge into the Matthews apartment? Better yet, why would Topanga let them?
IF I WROTE THE EPISODE
This one, like many before it, had so much potential and again, failed to live up to what it should have been. I would have just started out with the narration of what would the world be like if some things never happened. I would even still keep Mini Maya going to the bay window and not being able to get in and cut back to the current time. Corey would not be their teacher because no one was friends and planned to petition to get him to the high school. Since it’s Halloween (and because William Daniels isn’t getting any younger) Feeny would be their special guest teacher just because the class is still awful. I liked Maya and Lucas as bully and lone cowboy (though I’d be tempted to just make Lucas awful or maybe a nerd because he was too afraid to do a sport without a friend). I’d make Smackle the most popular girl in school and Farkle the soccer star of the school.
I actually liked the Auggie having to correct things in order to exist, which says something when Auggie is the best part of the show. This easily could have been a two-parter, especially since it aired halfway through October. In my episode(s) Ava would have only been seen in passing, but Dewy would not be a part of it (or exist). Finally, when everything seems bleak and like this new world is the new normal, Auggie fixes Riley and Maya’s friendship and he wakes up from the bad dream. The End!
Girl Meets World: Of Terror 3
This spooktacular edition of GMW was most disappointing. Doy, baby Riley, baby Maya, Auggie in every other scene, and Doy again made this an almost unbearable episode for me. I don't want to be too harsh, but it really was one of my least liked episodes this show has ever produced.
The episode was a dramatic interpretation of what life would be like for Riley and her friends if she had never befriended Maya. It's a fun idea and this had the potential to be a really cool episode, but then this happened...
Girl Meets World: Of Terror 3
This spooktacular edition of GMW was most disappointing. Doy, baby Riley, baby Maya, Auggie in every other scene, and Doy again made this an almost unbearable episode for me. I don't want to be too harsh, but it really was one of my least liked episodes this show has ever produced.
The episode was a dramatic interpretation of what life would be like for Riley and her friends if she had never befriended Maya. It's a fun idea and this had the potential to be a really cool episode, but then this happened...
I can't stand this kid. Have I mentioned that?
So we see Maya at the window trying to get in, but a singing Riley that is playing with her teddy bear has no idea. They don't become friends and life at their high school is very different because of it.
1. Farkle never had his moment of change. In Girl Meets Yearbook, Farkle and Riley are both disappointed with their superlatives and together they attempt to remake themselves, but since Maya and Riley never became friends, the group never was. Donnie Barnes and Morotia M. Black never had an impact on Farkle or Riley's personalities.
2. Riley's situation, I think, is very similar to Farkle's. She never had her moment of change. She never created the Morotia M. Black persona and her world was one continuous rainbow. Berry the bear and big hairbows are staples in her new life.
3. Maya is much darker. She never met the light in her life and the result is darkness. She is kind of a bully, forcing Riley to do her homework and specifically requesting Cs. She doesn't like Riley in this new reality, but she still kind of pokes fun at Lucas.
4. Lucas started channeling his inner cowboy. This one I don't really understand because when we first met Lucas on the subway, before he was friends with either of the girls, he didn't dress that way. Oh well, I don't really care because he wasn't a huge part of this episode anyway so I'm just going to accept it.
5. Zay wasn't there, but he was mentioned. Lucas mentioned that he use to be friends with Zay and that Zay never moved up north from Texas.
6. Smackle basically got a wardrobe change, a runny nose, and orthodontic headgear because clearly two people never becoming friends would have impacted the genetics of her teeth. It's strange to me that she is even a student at their school in the new reality because she only moved when she became friends with Farkle and the rest of the gang, but their friend group never happened so she would not have been invited to come to their public high school if it wasn't for that. I don't think she should have been in this episode because her situation seems a little similar to Zay's.
7. Corey was also different. He didn't believe that people changed people and he had developed a liking of bow ties.
It's possible I would have liked this episode more if Auggie and his crew hadn't had their chunk of story. Although I did enjoy this creepy thing..
But why did Doy and Ava (but mostly why Doy) have a part? To include Auggie I assume, but I HATE Doy. That kid isn't cute, he is obnoxious. Let me give a shout out to Ava, though! Kicking that little horror out of the apartment and shutting the door in his face almost made her part in the show completely redeemable. Thank you, Ava. Thank you for doing what some of us have been wanting to do for a while now. I hope that moment was symbolic. I hope it represents the door closing on Doy's future on the show. Please don't ever open that door ever again.
Well, I guess we're off for a few weeks until Girl Meets Her Monster premieres in November. I'm ready to see Riley and Topanga have any type of interaction at all, that includes fighting.
See you soon!
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