User blog comment:Red Compassion, Red Love, Red Hate/Spoiler Alert/@comment-17479654-20140726144906

This isn't A&A spoilers, it's GMW, but I have to rant.

So in the episode of GMW that airs next week (Girl Meets the Truth), Riley, Lucas, and Farkle are cast in Romeo & Juliet (with Lucas as Romeo and Riley as Juliet, while Farkle is random guy with a spear who says nothing) Riley is laying on her deathbed, dead (or supposedly dead) and Lucas starts to kiss her, but Farkle stops him, stating that it's now Romeo, Juliet, and Farkle, and Farkle gets the kiss. The audience cheers for him, especially Maya- Farkle then calls Maya up to get kissed too. Riley and Maya lay on the deathbed next to each other and Riley asks how they always get into these situations.

Riley then tells Farkle that he made the show even better than it would have, even though he very obviously ruined it. Then there's the main plot with Maya, but basically, Riley lied to Farkle and after encouraging Maya to tell the truth, Maya points out that she lied. But she still doesn't tell Farkle the truth.

Farkle quits all of his clubs- chess, math, book, science, etc.- to be a full-time actor, but when he auditions for the next show, they tell him he isn't even allowed to watch it. So he's laying on Juliet's deathbed where Riley and Maya find him. Riley apologizes for lying to him, but Farkle thanks her- she let him feel like he was important even though he wasn't- and tries to kiss her. She lifts her head up and he ends up kissing her chin, but Maya insists this counts- Riley's first kiss is Farkle. Then Lucas comes in and says his line as Romeo, stating that "the little guy" stole his moment twice. After Lucas leaves, Riley and Maya lay next to each other again, and Riley says "I love that we're the only ones who get into these situations."

Now that you know what happened, I shall begin my rant.

Lucas has been introduced as Riley's crush. He's a nice guy, but he's really cliche. Compare him to Spencer (GLC), Dallas (A&A), or Bree's first crush (Ethan, I think?) from Lab Rats. All of the Disney crushes are like this. I'm completely fine with Spencer, Dallas, and Ethan- they appear in shows that aren't designed to be real life (necessarily). Bionic kids, famous singers, and then GLC is just not as realistic as it could be. But GMW is supposed to be realistic. But, Lucas still works as a first crush, like Dustin or Wes from DWAB.

Unfortunately, they're making him into Topanga. He is in no way Topanga. Farkle is much more Topanga- Farkle forcibly kisses Riley as her first kiss (although Topanga didn't miss). But even if Farkle is not Topanga, Lucas definitely is not.

Nonetheless, he is always the perfect guy for Riley in every single episode. But