I think I speak for all kids born in the '90s and early 2000s when I say that Disney Channel has gone downhill since Zack and Cody got on that damn cruise ship. But two years ago, when I was 17, I was pretty excited when I heard the news about a spin-off of the '90s classic, “Boy Meets World,” to be aired on Disney Channel. It seemed like the channel finally found a savior. I’m going, to be honest, though, I was only 3 when the '90s ended, so I only watched "Boy Meets World" reruns, but I connected with the show nevertheless.

So when “Girl Meets World” premiered, I was ecstatic knowing I’d get to watch Cory and Topanga’s kids grow up, while also getting to catch up with some of my other favorites from the original show.

I’m just going to come right out and say the first season was...bad. The characters were sweet, but there was not much depth and the story lines seemed forced. One redeemable thing -- the Christmas special “Girl Meets Home For The Holidays”, where the Matthews family, minus Eric and Morgan but plus Shawn Hunter, pay a visit. It was great to watch the old cast back together, and it was nice to see Cory’s little brother, Josh, all grown up. Some other redeeming qualities: the flashbacks to young and adorable Cory and Topanga and the fact that Cory surprisingly made a pretty good new Mr. Feeny.

The main reason I kept watching after the first season was I expected it to be bad. It’s a show about 12-year-olds on Disney Channel after all. And the early seasons of “Boy Meets World” weren’t exactly great either. The stories lacked depth and maturity, also to be expected, since all of my favorite episodes “Wake Up, Little Cory," “A Long Walk from Pittsburgh” and “Seven The Hard Way” all happen in the later seasons of “Boy Meets World." So I knew I’d have to wait a while before “Girl Meets World” got any good. The characters and actors did have promise.

And the show delivered a bit in season 2. First of all, Cory’s big brother Eric makes several appearances, and Eric was my favorite character on “Boy Meets World” so this meant everything to me. Season 2 also discusses a more serious topic such as politics, feminism, death, religion and mental illness. The characters get more layers; after being bullied, Cory and Topanga’s daughter, Riley (the girl in "Girl Meets World"), loses some of her “sunshine and rainbows” innocent personality. While her geeky best friend, Farkle, decides he’s growing up and decides to ditch his colorful wardrobe and obnoxious catchphrases after being made fun of in the school yearbook and finding out he might be dealing with Asperger's.

But, season 2 also had its flaws. First of all Riley’s best friend Maya (also known as the new Shawn Hunter since she shares the same family and money problems and abandonment issues) is a tad annoying. The characters constantly bring up how miserable her life is and while several episodes of “Boy Meets World” are dedicated to Shawn’s difficult home life it was still Cory’s show and Shawn’s dilemmas weren’t consistently overshadowing things. Sometimes “Girl Meets World” seems more like Maya’s show than Riley’s which is strange since it never seemed like a battle for attention with Cory and Shawn.

Second, there’s the issue with Shawn’s girlfriend, Angela, from “Boy Meets World." Shawn and Angela were a beautiful couple they had tons of chemistry and were a lot more realistic than Cory and Topanga. But in “Girl Meets World” we find out Angela ends up marrying someone else and only shows up to talk to Shawn so she could see if she could muster up the courage to have kids with her new husband. Angela also pushes Shawn closer to Katy, Maya’s single mother. I feel like they just got rid of Angela and threw away this amazing couple with so much history so Maya could have a picture-perfect family. This was unbelievably frustrating to watch.

Yet, another issue I have with “Girl Meets World” is Cory and Topanga’s five-year-old son, Auggie, yeah he adds a cute factor to the show and has one or two good plots, but he just adds to the immaturity of the show and he takes up way too much time in the episodes making me lose interest. I now understand why Morgan hardly ever got lines on “Boy Meets World” the cute factor gets boring.

I miss the middle child point of view from “Boy Meets World” because even though Eric wasn’t the wisest he added a bit of an older point of view to Cory’s life and I wish “Girl Meets World” had that. Which is why I desperately hope that Cory’s little brother Josh who's 3 years older than Riley will become a regular on the show in order to add the big brother perspective Eric had on “Boy Meets World."

Last but not least there’s the ultimate problem with the spin-off, the godforsaken love triangle between Riley, Maya and the new boy in school, Lucas (originally introduced as the Topanga to RIley’s Cory). Love triangles are a bad period. Love triangles between kids are just god awful. Shawn and Cory never fought over Topanga, so it makes it seem like girls just have to fight over boys, which is ridiculous. I feel like Riley and Maya share almost too much. They’re best friend Farkle is in love with both of them, Topanga sometimes seems more fond of Maya than Riley and now they share the same crush. I really hope that in later seasons the show can touch on some of Riley’s insecurities when it comes to Maya. I don’t know why the writer’s thought a love triangle would be a good idea.

But with the premiere of season 3, there seems to be a ray of hope for “Girl Meets World." With the first episode of season 3 “Girl Meets High School,it’s” the show really seems in touch wits predecessor and it’s not just because they recreated the “Boy Meets World” opening credits. But because with the addition of characters, Zay, and Isadora, as regulars, the show seems more like “Boy Meets World” when they added Jack, Angela and Rachel.

“Girl Meets High School” reminded me so much of my favorite episode of “Boy Meets World” called “Seven the Hard Way” it definitely gives me hope that “Girl Meets World” can leave Disney Channel and touch on more serious subjects because the characters. Not to mention that with the premiere of season 3, I actually laughed at some of the jokes for the first time ever! I’m really excited to see what comes next, despite the fact that I’m probably way too old to be watching this show.