I was wondering why, with how solid of a season finale "Boy Meets Girl" is, they decided to instead close the season on an episode bumped up from earlier in the production schedule. I get it now. While "Boy Meets Girl" is essential to the future of the show as it establishes the romantic awakenings of our cast and cements the Cory/Topanga relationship as a major focus, "I Dream of Feeny" is a great capper to the original core premise of the show - that a kids lives next door to his teacher, adding another layer to their combative tutelage. The episode starts light on a whimsical if silly concept of Cory believing he can make wishes come true, only to feel guilt at the severity of Feeny's sickness, adding the element of elaborate dream/fantasy sequences which will come to be a recurring element of the show (seriously, the group shots of rooms full of laughing Feenys is wonderful), which also giving us a major bonding moment as Corey comes to not only appreciate what he's learning from his teacher, but what he still has yet to learn. It's ultimately a really solid episode that takes a little wandering to find itself, but then soars when it does. Much like the season as a whole. So yeah, can see why they reshuffled it to being a finale.
Two amusing notes: 1) Tweens being bored by Beowulf is just bad teaching. It's vikings vs monsters. It's an easy sell. 2) The credit tag sequence is a silly gag, but Minkus being blinked out of existence is not only a great callback to his time-travel gag, but becomes painfully perfect when you realize it's now Lee Norris' last scene on the series as a regular. It's equally horrible and wonderful.
Review by noelctBlockedParentSpoilers2022-12-09T05:23:32Z
I was wondering why, with how solid of a season finale "Boy Meets Girl" is, they decided to instead close the season on an episode bumped up from earlier in the production schedule. I get it now. While "Boy Meets Girl" is essential to the future of the show as it establishes the romantic awakenings of our cast and cements the Cory/Topanga relationship as a major focus, "I Dream of Feeny" is a great capper to the original core premise of the show - that a kids lives next door to his teacher, adding another layer to their combative tutelage. The episode starts light on a whimsical if silly concept of Cory believing he can make wishes come true, only to feel guilt at the severity of Feeny's sickness, adding the element of elaborate dream/fantasy sequences which will come to be a recurring element of the show (seriously, the group shots of rooms full of laughing Feenys is wonderful), which also giving us a major bonding moment as Corey comes to not only appreciate what he's learning from his teacher, but what he still has yet to learn. It's ultimately a really solid episode that takes a little wandering to find itself, but then soars when it does. Much like the season as a whole. So yeah, can see why they reshuffled it to being a finale.
Two amusing notes: 1) Tweens being bored by Beowulf is just bad teaching. It's vikings vs monsters. It's an easy sell. 2) The credit tag sequence is a silly gag, but Minkus being blinked out of existence is not only a great callback to his time-travel gag, but becomes painfully perfect when you realize it's now Lee Norris' last scene on the series as a regular. It's equally horrible and wonderful.