"For the good of all of us, choose." Truer words...
Warning: Full spoilers for the episode follow.
Well, that didn't resolve anything... again.
To be fair, showrunner Michael Jacobs has said the Riley/Maya/Lucas triangle would be coming to an end this season, so I have to believe Lucas will actually make his final decision in the next episode. However, that didn't make the end of this episode any less frustrating. Was another week of the characters questioning their feelings for one another really necessary? In this writer's opinion, no, it wasn't.
To its credit, "Girl Meets Triangle" had some nice moments too. I liked the new art teacher, Mr. Jackson (Aaron Lazer), who immediately hit it off with Riley but pushed Maya, the true artist, to do better. Granted, the conclusion that Maya's painting was actually an expressionist take on Riley's purple cat was a little cheesy -- specifically the part where Maya didn't even know she'd done it. But the overall theme of Maya "becoming" Riley was interesting, if only because it hearkened back to one of Cory's lessons: "People change people."
Speaking of callbacks, I liked the idea of the guys using Cory and Shawn's jelly bean technique to decide if Lucas should choose Riley or Maya (à la Topanga or Lauren). In execution, though, it felt a bit forced. Not only was it unbelievable that Zay and Farkle came up with the same idea on their own, but it played out almost identically to when Boy Meets World did it -- only without the actual verdict. Maybe if Cory had tipped them off or something, it would have worked better, but in the end this scene came off as a rehash.
Then there was the bulk of this episode, which was Riley and Maya processing all these emotional "discoveries." By far, this was the most vexing part of the episode, mainly because we've been through all this multiple times before. While I got a laugh out of Cory shouting "North Pole!" for Katie's spontaneous improv, that whole sequence felt like it was just killing time until Lucas could make his dramatic entrance and say, "I made my decision!" (Which for some reason was met with cheers and applause?)
Anyway, "Girl Meets Triangle" wasn't bad; I just expected more from it, given the title. Yes, there were some good bits of character development, but a lot of it was recycled or repurposed to fit this slightly different storyline. Also, now that the girls have apparently gone off on their own adventure to... somewhere, I suspect they won't even run into Lucas again until the end of that episode.
The Verdict
You could feel Lucas's big decision drawing near in "Girl Meets Triangle," but it wasn't in this episode.
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