Pelagia

Full House clearly belonged to John Stamos.

Stamos didn't get first in line for the opening credits just for his looks. Jesse was the center of the show, the guy that made the chemistry happen and brought everyone together.

Stamos is one of those rare all-around talents who can do just about everything and look good doing it. Sadly, Stamos never really got anywhere in show business. The man is not a complete failure, he married a supermodel and I'm sure lives comfortably, but twenty years from now people will look back and think, Stamos? Um, you mean Uncle Jesse, from Full House?

When you think about it, no one from the show ever really moved on to greater things*, but Stamos, if anyone, should have been the one to have his career skyrocket after the show ended.

Jesse's marriage to Rebecca should have signaled a new direction for the show, in the form of a spin-off series or at least the departure of Stamos for the greener pastures of movies and/or record deals. The producers must have realized that the show would fall apart without Stamos and must have thrown him a few bucks more into his contract, assuring him security he would not have if he decided to set out for Hollywood. Instead of Full House sinking without Jesse, they ended up sinking together.



*- not counting the Mary-Kate & Ashley Olson business empire, which has had more to do with cheap labor and marketing than talent.

You'd have to have been born somewhere between the late seventies and early eighties to have fully appreciated Oldschool Nintendo. Even though the major Nintendo stars such as Mario and Link are still with us today, their innocence doesn't hold up any more in a gaming world full of violence and mature themes. I remember watching this show religiously every day after school, during a time of my life when anything Nintendo was sacred.

I had the opportunity recently to watch some of the episodes, and found it a fun experience to relive that bit of nostalgia. Even though cartoons have vastly improved over the years, I believe that the episodes still hold up pretty well. Memories of the time I had a crush on Princess Toadstool and Zelda, sang along to the Mario song, and pretended I was Link dueling with bad guys in my back yard seem to come back to me as I watched.

The style of the cartoons is outdated in comparison to the superb quality we have today, but if you fit into that age range I mentioned previously, you'll find some great nostalgic value in these cartoons.