#compulsory fuck you disney lol

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Disney’s Comphet Episode

girl meets world's legacy will most likely be its total flop as a sequel to boy meets world, as well as the worst autism rep ever lol but I'll personally always remember it for how much it FUMBLED THE BAG because it introduced a stupid love triangle.

why were there so many shows in the late 'aughts dedicated to RUINING their shows with pointless ship wars? star vs the forces of evil, danny phantom, and girl meets world are just off the top of my head.

we have these two perfect best friend characters. surprisingly perfect friendship. okay, more like, veering on homoromantic.

(via @forbescaroline)

and then you know what they do with it? They insert the MOST WHITE BREAD ass love interest ever in the form of Lucas.

his defining characteristic is that he's a dreamy goodboy, and there's nothing wrong with that except that he's EXTREMELY boring compared to the oddballs of the rest of the cast, like Farkle or Maya or Riley.

The one thing that subsidizes his bore factor is that all his love triangle ship drama fuels conflict in the show.

he's the straight man--ha, get it? kys

he's dreamy enough to have these perfect friends in conflict over him.

and it kind of ruins the fun of the show.

like, i don't want to see Riley and Maya fight. and they don't even want to fight either. so they're just sighing sadly at each other, meanwhile im over here WHY WOULD YOU EVEN WANT TO DATE LUCAS??

it's giving "she was a girl, he was a boy, can I make it anymore obvious"

like i appreciate a show that demonstrates that girls in competition over a guy DO NOT need to be catty or mean (from what I can remember), but like, this should have been a 1 episode plot AT MOST GOD

they expand on the plot in the most bizarre ways possible too. like i havent watched this show in years, but i still remember this shit.

The premise of the show is that Riley falls into Lucas's lap on a bus in ep 1, so they're basically an end game couple from the beginning. But they have to introduce a shitty love triangle.

So they then have an episode where Maya "acts" as Riley for a day, and while she's acting as Riley, she realizes that Riley doesn't love Lucas and most likely sees him as a brother. which, first of all, is the craziest shit ive ever heard, and second of all

COULD HAVE BEEN THE MOST BEAUTIFUL scene about comphet EVER in a disney kids show.

the DRAMA. the PROJECTION. "she's confused" "feelings you don't understand"

the contrast between what Riley THINKS she feels for Lucas and what Maya feels for Riley. Riley ASKING MAYA "how do I feel, then, maya?" and MAYA's "just tell me what to say" !!! It's the "Good Luck, Babe" of it all!!!!!!!!

it astounds me that this exists in the show! i remembered nothing else about the show EXCEPT for this scene and the terrible autism PSA farkle episode lol.

they use this to fan maya x lucas flames and some drama about maya becoming riley in the last season, which I have zero clue about because all that exists to me is that one crystal clear moment of comphet.

so yeah, while I don't care for sabrina carpenter's music, im extremely happy that she covered chappell roan's "Good Luck, Babe" because it led to this amazing edit that compiles all these moments lol

what a moment. everything, it all has led up to this 67 views edit.

last thing I gotta say, I feel like the drama of "are you becoming me" would've ATE as drama, especially in a sapphic context. like some jennifer's body type shit. instead, it's poorly executed, one-sided, and does harm to both of their characters, from what I've read. BUT LIKE, there's no way it was one-sided. The envy/self-projection thing nor the love!! THEY HAD TO HAVE BEEN RECIPROCAL oh my god i can't Disney was SO CLOSE to greatness WHYYYYYYYYYYY

[passiveagressiveintrovert]

So I just watched lightyear, who else cried when Alisha passed away. Buzz missed so much of her life and she will miss so much of his. I loved their friendship and I love Buzz's new friendship with Izzy. Great movie I love the message, characters and story, would recommend.

[nadziejastar]

I definitely like and agree with the post. Thanks for sharing! It’s a shame that these types of criticisms are often dismissed as “political” when there’s plenty of criticism to be had simply from an artistic standpoint. Riku and Sora’s friendship did get shafted. I didn’t like that since I always enjoyed it since KH2. My sister was heartbroken that Riku was playing on the beach while only Kairi mourned Sora’s disappearance. It felt extremely OOC since Riku was always fiercely protective of Sora. The whole ending felt like a slap in the face. No closure at all. I was pissed that Kairi was reduced to being a damsel in distress yet again. I think Subject X was forcefully inserted into Lea and Isa’s friendship because higher ups thought a close male relationship without a girl present was too threatening.

I will say that I think it is probably unfair to place the blame squarely at Nomura’s feet. I’m not saying he’s above criticism, and I’m not making any excuses for the valid criticisms of the series. But Nomura is still at the behest of Square, as well as Disney. He is not the sole arbiter of every decision (look at FFXV). He said himself that he doesn’t feel like KH is really his series anymore, since KH3 had so many more people involved. He used to feel like it was more obscure and Disney let him do his own thing. I think Nomura did TRY to make Lea and Isa step outside of traditional gender roles. If that were not the case, he would have created Skuld as their friend from the start. But no, she had to be retconned in at the last minute. And he never would have made 358/2 Days focus on their relationship as much as it did. So, I give him credit for trying.

I think it’s far more likely that since KH3 was such a big budget and high profile release, it was subjected to far more limitations than its predecessors, not only in terms of plot, but gameplay as well. 358/2 Days was on the DS and Birth by Sleep was on the PSP. If KH3 had been on the 3DS or something, it most likely would have had the same creative freedom that the older games had, without having to squash anything that might be perceived as “too gay”. Japan is definitely a problem, but the West is, too. Ultimately, I don’t even think the problem with KH3 came down to East/West.

I personally know people who refuse to play the series because they said it was “too gay”. One guy actually wound up liking the series, but he’d be pissed if any of the characters (like his favorite character Axel) actually WERE gay. It sucks, but large corporations still want to cater to people like that, so we end up with boring characters who fall back on tired tropes. It’s safe. Stale, but safe. While I’m confident that the vast majority of diehard KH fans (and JRPGs in general) are not homophobic, TONS of casual gamers are. And I think that was the main difference between KH3 and the older games. Older KH games were targeting the niche nerdy JRPG/anime crowd. KH3 had much, MUCH more of a push to appeal to casual gamers and young kids than something like BBS or DDD.

As for Kairi and Aqua, that’s a great discussion. The setup was perfect for Kairi to step outside of her usual role. She was training to use the Keyblade so she wouldn’t have to wait around anymore. She saved Sora with the power of waking. A big deal was made before the final battle that she’d be the one to protect HIM. To ruin all that and have her fridged again…at that point, it doesn’t even seem like merely incompetent writing. You can’t ruin something that perfect by accident.

Maybe I’m just crazy, but this is what I think: Nomura’s handling of Kairi was done out of spite. He put all this work in to make her a more well-rounded character. But now he’s gotta bring Xion AND Namine back. Now Xion has to fight Saix, too, which leaves Kairi with nothing to do. The story was always planned to have 7 Guardians of Light and 13 Darknesses. That’s it. But Roxas, Xion and Namine had to come back for fanservice, so now we have “reserve” darknesses, who only join the organization to get replicas for the extra lights. It’s dumb. Nomura knew how dumb it was.

He probably hates KH3’s script. A while back he said he hated Sora, even though in 2013 Sora (and Noctis…lol) was his favorite character. BBSV2’s cancellation already ruined the story. Nomura got fed up and just decided to say “fuck it”. He didn’t give a shit anymore if Kairi sucked, if Sora died, if Isa’s scar never gets explained, or if Xehanort’s actions made no sense. It was out of his hands and he’s bitter at Square and Disney. The story he had planned for a decade was ruined anyway. At least, that’s the only explanation I can think of.