She gets more dimensional as the show goes on.

The thing is like alot of this is based off Quinta's mom experience as a teacher, and alot of teachers have chimed in that Ava is basically atleast someone they actually know from school administration/school districts.

I say watch the first ep by yourself first to gauge the level of violence/graphic nature of the show. You know your wife best so if you feel she can handle the first ep, she can prob handle the other eps.

I wouldn't necessarily say they were vanilla, but Cory and Topanga's relationship really frustrated me at times. They retconned a lot of her weirdness and made her suddenly childhood sweethearts with Cory despite them not knowing much about each other at the start of Boys Meet World and it felt like the writers had to have them be together despite there being an interesting alternative of it simply not working out but having a lot of love for each other.

He chases her with a sign that he'd follow her everywhere the first time they break up. Topanga gave up Yale for him. He initially lies about kissing another girl. She breaks up with him bc of her parents divorcing. I just felt that their relationship was super codependent at times, where they "HAD" to be together to be complete when they should have focused on who they were outside the relationship. Neither of them really dated other people in a serious manner.

I did think they ruined Angela's character in the GMW series. They openly dreaded her returning into their lives which didn't make sense to me bc she and Shawn broke up on good terms to discover their identities outside of their relationship and grow up and experience other things. Not only that but she barely spoke to Topanga despite them being best friends for a significant portion of their lives. Allow the characters to have the maturity of growth. They didn't have to get back together, but to use her as a prop for another character was disrespectful to the actor and the character.

Yeah, especially if there was a long time in between seasons passing or if there's a huge mythos or large cast.

I remember rewatching old eps of GOT and going "oh yeah, I forgot about this character."