Girl Meets World Recap: Girl Meets Gravity

Season Two of Girl Meets World premiered this past Monday. It’s the first day of 8th grade at John Quincy Adams Middle School, where Riley and Maya believe they are the kings of the school, seemingly at the center of the universe where everyone and everything revolves around them. To lock this independent ruler status, they want to avoid another year of Cory as their teacher, so the best friends transfer to another history class. Their new teacher, however, is very strict and forces the girls to sit separately. They later transfer back and Cory gladly welcomes them back.

 The girls are frustrated because they feel as though their parents are a hovering presence, circling around them like planets, with Cory once again as their history teacher and Topanga and Katy, Riley and Maya’s mothers respectively, working at the bakery. Mrs. Svorski, the former owner of the bakery, asked Topanga to take over the bakery and by the end of the episode, has passed away. At the funeral, Riley realizes that she isn’t the center of the universe with planets revolving around her, but instead that she and the rest of us should circle loved ones as long as they’re here and hold them close, because they hold you in place like gravity. She concludes that people are not kings, but just tiny little speaks in this great big universe, invoking a similar message from Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, a play Cory was teaching the class earlier in the episode. Cory later calls Mr. Feeny to make sure he's still there, and he is.

Girl Meets World returned with a big bang, a fitting compliment considering the use of planets, the sun, and the greater solar system in this episode. Not only did we take away the always-important, but often forgotten message to appreciate life and our loved ones, but also we, as loyal Boy Meets World fans, squealed in excitement when Mr. Feeny made his special appearance. Stay tuned for other familiar faces this season like Rider Strong as Shawn Hunter and Will Friedle as Cory’s older brother Eric. Other future guest stars include Anthony Tyler Quinn as Mr. Turner, Trina McGee-Davis as Shawn's ex-girlfriend Angela, and Blake Clark as Shawn's late father Chet. I simply cannot wait!!