lucaya (lucas friar x maya hart)

in the following i will try my best to speak as little as possible about the sweetest girl in the world (riley matthews) and about the overarching gmw themes. those can all be read about soon.

now, i present my goodbye letter to the ship that disappointed me forever and a hate letter to “the kanye west of children’s television” writer, Micheal Jacobs:

lucaya was my first love, my first child. i knew them intimately similar to how i would expect a seddie shipper would. Sabrina Carpenter pop princess/sensation plays the beautiful Maya Penelope Hart who meets the unremarkable Lucas Friar. There are so many reasons to root for this pairing such as enemies to lovers/opposites attract/why cant i hate you. Genuinely who knows why Micheal Jacobs decided to go with rucas in the end. I dont know if he was trying to cement them as corpanga when I thought it was clear to everyone auggie x ava was the corpanga of the show. Trying so hard not to get into this but if the main focus of the show was between the core 5's friendship (with rilaya in the center of it all) why did the focus shift so heavily to the triangle. The season 3 run between girl meets triangle-ski lodge pt 2(3.5-9) was absolutely insufferable with exception of girl meets true maya. I am a fan of true maya.

On a happier note, here is my thoughts on some of lucaya’s most memorable times. Im not sure what episode I first started shipping lucaya because I was like 9 but I can definitely point out some turning points. Here are a few just from the top of my head in order:

  • During our first introduction of Zay, he reveals Lucas has been calling Maya the “blonde beauty” this whole time.. oh! (girl meets the new world 2.2)
  • The teasing flirting during the “mad dog” dialogue (girl meets rules 2.7)
  • lucaya gets voted BEST COUPLE in the yearbook ?? Maya finds our Riley is more like a “sister” to Lucas (girl meets yearbook 2.12)

Now I could go on but there is a continuity problem with the majority of season 2 since they had to schedule girl meets fish during disney channel’s “whodunnit” week. It is so concerning I still know these details. Therefore, I cannot put the rest in order but just know that many episodes sprinkle in lucaya moments until the absolutely world-changing three part special that is girl meets TEXAS.

Girl meets texas part 1: Riley not only finds out about Maya’s “sibling” relationship realization but, also that Maya likes Lucas. She finds this out of course by her terrified reaction to Lucas riding Tombstone the Bull. Riley, being the sweetest girl ever, decides to step back.
Girl meets texas part 2: I have just turned 11 years old. I am watching this episode pirated a week before its premiere because my family could not afford cable. My life has just changed.

After this point, many episodes focused far too heavily on the triangle and hid it beneath a theme of the strength of friendship between Riley and Maya. We fought oh so heavily yet it all ended with lucaya’s death in girl meets ski lodge part 2. I am not going to speak on joshaya. uriah shelton can go to hell.
Some highlights between this time:

  • “RILEY STILL LOVES LUCAS” - Farkle Minkus (girl meets the new year 2.25)
  • the chin hold in science class oh my GOD (girl meets STEM 2.26)
  • a lot of annoying “balancing” compliments throughout beginning of s3
  • bond, huckleberry bond (girl meets ski lodge pt 1 3.8)

And then we lost. Although my worst defeat in a war, not my worst battles I would say.

 

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