Girl Meets World – Girl Meets Triangle

By: Dustin Bradley

Girl Meets Triangle aired this past Friday and boy what an episode this was! “Girl Meets World” just keeps getting better and better with each episode! It seems that we are nearing the end of the triangle so will it be #Rucas or #Lucaya? Let’s dig into the episode!

Me thinks high school isn’t just about our studies.

Apparently at Abigail Adams High, “break-up Mondays” are a thing. All of the kids who found love at the latest parties on Fridays get dumped on the following Monday to make room for another outing during the new week. We learn this from a lovely girl with whom Maya (Sabrina Carpenter) and Riley (Rowan Blanchard) meet in the bathroom before class. In the bathroom, we also see a pair of upperclassmen, whose friendship strikes a parallel to that of Rilaya, that are fighting because they are in their own triangle and it is ruining their friendship.

This forces the girl to face the facts… A decision needs to be made. Luckily, the guys feel the same way. After their own off-screen encounter that morning, Zay (Amir Mitchell-Townes) and Farkle (Corey Fogelmanis) convince Lucas to try and make a decision. Let’s see how that goes!

You will never be a true artist until you are true to yourself. So who are you?

Enter art class and Mr. Jackson (Aaron Lazar), the high school art teacher who has taken an interest in Maya after she deviates drastically from his original assignment. He wants to know who influences Maya and yet she can’t pinpoint who that would be, even when Riley is clearly speaking for her and trying to force an idea of Maya being the opposite of herself. Unfortunately, Maya receives an incomplete for the moment until she can fully answer Mr. Jackson’s question.

I think of you as somebody who would fight for what she believed in. Even me! Especially fight me.

We now go to the bay window where Riley wants to deal with this “Maya problem” headfirst. She tries to get her to talk about what went on today during art, but Maya keeps changing the subject to Lucas (Peyton Meyer). This forces Riley to then join in that argument and claim Lucas. Maya shutters and shuts down. Something is wrong with her, but I think everyone is making a bigger deal out of this than is necessary.

How am I supposed to choose between two people I care about?

Farkle and Zay attempt to help Lucas out with his decision by taking a trick from good ole’ Shawn Hunter and using a scale with different color jelly beans to see which girl outweighs the other. Sadly,, this doesn’t work because both of the girls are so fantastic. We do get something from the discussion though when Lucas says, “I don’t believe in coincidence. I believe coincidence is the universe’s way of telling you something. And what are the odds that one day on the subway Riley falls into my lap? It’s always been Riley. It’s always been Riley since day one.” So, the Rucas shipper in me is hopeful!

I’m a teenager. No teenager knows who they are.

Oh Maya! You young soul, you.

We got Katy Hart (Cheryl Texiera) back in our lives for two scenes this episode where they decide to paint her as a neglectful mother who doesn’t want to parent Maya, instead wanting the Matthews to do it. I have an issue with this because this is not the Katy we have seen in the past seasons who is trying her hardest to be there for Maya and be a good parent.

Everyone wants Maya to go back to the “old” her despite the fact that Maya is doing great. She’s getting good grades, she has an amazing group of friends and she is enjoying school for the first time ever… Yet, everyone thinks she is broken.

My voice is still my voice Riley.

Can I just say that I think Riley is being incredibly selfish in telling Maya that the world already has one of her and that she needs to be the old Maya again? Maya makes a strong case in saying that the similarities between the two of them don’t mean anything because deep down she is still her.

You haven’t lost your voice, Miss Hart. You are screaming out.

Mr. Jackson takes another look at Maya’s painting and shows her that she hasn’t lost her voice at all. It just seem like she has acquired someone else’s. She painted a purple cat in what seemed like random splotches of color. What does this mean exactly? Can Maya ever return from this? And with that, they go on an adventure to find the “true” Maya.

I have made my decision

After the girls leave, we see Lucas burst in with the declaration that he has made a decision. And the parents make him spill it. Sadly, we don’t get to see it because they left it on a huge cliffhanger. BUT my sources tell me that we won’t get a final ending to this cliffhanger until Girl Meets Ski Lodge.

We don’t get another new episode until July 8th entitled Girl Meets Upstate. The official synopsis is TBD, but rest assured I will have your recap available when it airs!