The Good
Once again Full House delivers.
The Bad
No extra features. What happened? There were extras on the first set!
Full House: The Complete Seventh Season is the second to last season of this landmark show that provided a great deal of joy for viewers of all ages. I could use the term “change is in the air” to describe everything going on in this show, but I have used that enough. However, to be honest, it really holds true here. It seems that everything about this Seventh Season leads up to Danny being made an offer on the house for double its value (“A House Divided”). Aside from this episode, we see Uncle Joey have problems when he starts dating a very rude comedienne (“Joey’s Funny Valentine). Jesse and Becky have problems of their own when they have to dole out some parental guidance to their kids (“Tough Love”). And don’t think the girls are left out as Stephanie faces some new peer pressure (“Fast Friends”), and Michelle proves to not be adept at soccer (“Wrong-Way Tanner”).
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Okay, lets be honest, Full House: The Complete Seventh Season may not have been the greatest of all the seasons, but it still managed to provide a lot of laughter, love and that well worn Full House humor.
Features
No Extras came with this release.
Video
Standard Version. Presented in a format preserving the aspect ratio of its original television exhibition. Warner Bros. has done a fine job compressing these shows onto DVD. With four discs and 24 episodes spread out over each of them, the look of these shows is much stronger and richer than it is when these shows air in syndication. While I am sure that the way these shows are lit probably accounts for why they look so sharp (they are probably very easy to compress on DVD), but Warner Bros. must still be given credit for getting them to this level.
Audio
Dolby Digital. English: Stereo. The audio on these shows was also good. I didn’t need to turn up the levels on my player that loud and things played very smoothly. In fact, I don’t recall that I had to do anything but put these discs into my player and things played very smoothly. I didn’t need to adjust the sound levels because things sounded really well put together.
Package
The front of this slipcase cover gives us the main cast and it’s amazing to me how much older everyone looks from the First Season cover. The back of this green and blue slipcase give us three pictures from the show, a description of what Full House: The Complete Seventh Season is about, a cast list and technical specs. Two slim cases house all four discs, each of which lists out all the episodes and their descriptions (for its respective side) that are on each disc. Aside from that, this packaging is pretty tame.
Final Word
I hate to say it but this seemed to be the Season that Full House began to show its age a little bit. I am not saying that it took a full tumble right into the gutter (far from it), but this show seemed to have lost some of its bite along the way. While I don’t think that anybody would ever call this show edgy, it was sort of ahead of itself in some ways. For starters there was the living situation, the growing pains and the career goals that all the “adults” were supposed to have. At this point in the show, the creators seemed to focus less on the older children and more on the new breed. This was all well and good when the Olsen Twins were the only game on the block, but when you start adding Uncle Jesse’s kids and Michelle’s friends into the mix, it almost seems like you have a recipe for disaster.
However, despite what problems I think this show might ultimately have encountered in its Seventh Season, I still found that, for the most part, Full House: The Complete Seventh Season had all the charm, fun and good spiritedness that I remember.
Full House was released .
