FULLER HOUSE OFFICIAL DISCUSSION THREAD [SPOILERS] (duh)

I loved Full House as a kid. I did not like this show. I was hoping for a show similar to Modern Family, but with the Tanner family. Instead I got a huge "Actors hit their peak in the 80s and convinced Netflix to pay them to relive the good old days" vibe from the show.

My thoughts:

1) Why so many guess stars? The pilot was a splendid reunion, but allowing the uncles to repeatedly return prevented the show from blossoming into it's own unique flower. Everytime one showed up, I had to listen to 15 seconds of annoying whistling... On to my second point...

2) Why the laugh track? Laugh tracks made their debut in the days of I Love Lucy, an entire century ago. Most shows (and all good ones) don't include them nowadays. It'd be passable if they had more jokes, but it was fairly bad because a short one liner like "How Rude" was followed by 30+ seconds of all the actors awkwardly posing for the audience to cheer.

3) I love almost all of the characters. DJ is the perfect mom of the house. I love how Kimmy hasn't changed. Her husband actually compliments her weirdness. Tommy and Max are adorable. Jackson and Ramona grow to be some solid characters.

And then there were some characters... Was Steve always this weirdly clingy? Fernando's accent plus his/Kimmy's weird made it feel weirdly racist (Yea it's been done in other shows, but this one felt particularly racist). And Stephanie... was she interested in music as a child or is it because the writers wanted her to replicate Uncle Jesse's personality for the sake of matching the previous show... Even then, Uncle Jesse may have been obsessed with his appearance but he wasn't walking around showing that much cleavage.

4) Writing was subpar, jokes were weak. The poor acting further highlighted all of it. However, I did love the many callbacks to Full House and the fairly obvious allusions (The Olson twins, playfully bashing on child stars like Raven).

4) If they were trying to make a "new, evolved, and current" version of Full House, they missed the target. They should not have had the old actors come back that often (Uncle Jesse and Aunt Becky were fine, but Danny came back obsessing about a couch). They should have upped their jokes/minute ratio. They should have killed that laugh track.

If they were trying to create an exact replica of a family friendly Full House for a new generation, they still missed the target. The clothes were not family friendly. Kids or any other new audience members don't have any interest in seeing Bob Saget on the screen or listening to songs from the 80s. There wasn't enough plot.

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