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Allison Kelly Staff Writer

Growing up in a generation in which tv is very influential, different tv shows that we grew up on are some of our greatest pastimes. A lot of us who grew up in the 90’s understand the meaning of a truly good childhood show. It was shows such as The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Saved by the Bell, Friends, Boy Meets World, and last but not least, Full House that kept us entertained after school during these years. In my opinion, tv shows have really fallen off since then, but this year the “good ole’ days” were attempted to be reinvented.

Full House was an American sitcom created by Jeff Franklin for ABC. It followed the life of a widowed man, Danny Tanner, and his attempt at raising his 3 daughters, DJ, Stephanie, and Michelle, with the help of his brother-in-law, Jesse Katsopolis, and best friend, Joey Gladstone in their big home in San Francisco. It aired from September 22, 1987, to May 23, 1995, ending with a total of eight seasons and 192 episodes. Even if you weren’t a 90’s child, this show was so good that it lived on to the next generation through its repeat episodes that still air. But, showing the same episodes over and over again just wasn’t enough and with the decrease in tv watchers who have replaced cable boxes with Netflix accounts, finally rumors of a remake of the show, Fuller House, would soon be released as a Netflix original series.

Fuller House is an American family sitcom and sequel to the 1987–95 television series Full House, airing as a Netflix original series. It was created and produced by Jeff Franklin. This time around, the show centers around the eldest daughter, newly widowed DJ Tanner, as she attempts to raise her three sons with the help of her sister Stephanie and her childhood best friend, Kimmy Gibbler. It starts out as a reunion for the family as they all said their goodbyes to their childhood home, until they realized it was a lot harder to let go of it than they thought.

Overall, the idea of the remake was very exciting and it allowed a lot of us to take ourselves back to our childhood, but other than that, the show didn’t have that much to offer to anyone except the original series’ most diehard fans. I must say they overdid it with reusing the most famous lines from the original series and every time they were thrown into the script it seemed a little forced, such as when Stephanie would say “how rude” or Jesse saying “have mercy”. At times, the references to the original series were overdone and cheesy. It was nice to see all of the actual, original cast back to do the remake, well everyone except for the Olsen twins who played the youngest daughter Michelle. There actually was a funny reference to their absence at the beginning of the episode that the whole family took part in. Other than that, the series is a cute way for people to reminisce, but it attracts little engagement to any new viewers of the show that have no association with the original.

Aidan W.

Staff Writer

Explained simply, Magic: The Gathering is a trading card game in which you play with a deck of 60 cards, and try to kill your opponent. While it is not a game for everyone, I have been playing for a long time, and have recently started to play competitively. For the those who do not play, this article will hopefully give you an understanding of the appeal of the game. For those of you who already play, you may find my descriptions useful.

I’ve been playing Magic for almost seven years, and in that time, I’ve seen a lot of nasty competitive decks move through the formats. However, I’ve never seen the modern format as warped as it currently is.

As an almost exclusively modern player, I’ve played a fair number of decks, and played against many more. Many do not love modern as much as I do, but it is still a fun, relatively accessible format for competitive play. This is why I hate to see the modern format demolished by the Eldrazi archetype.

The Eldrazi deck started out as a super-budget brew. Using the underrated Eldrazi lands (Eye of Ugin, and Eldrazi Temple), the deck was able to cast cards like Blight Herder and Oblivion Sower early in the game, in order to ramp into Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger. The only cards whose price was of note being Inquisition of Kozilek, and Ulamog. It was a very cheap, very efficient way to play the game, costing only around $150, with the average price for the format being somewhere between $500-$1,000, sometimes even reaching prices upward of $2,000. Then, it began to take off. Prices were in flux as the deck spiked in popularity, and it single-handedly pushed many decks out of the format, seeing as it had built-in graveyard hate.

However, no one could have been prepared for the Pro Tour, the largest MTG professional tournament, held annually around the world. After the release of the new set, Oath of the Gatewatch, the deck exploded in its power level. With new cards like Eldrazi Mimic, Reality Smasher, and Thought-Knot Seer, the deck took off, and made not just a dent, but put a hole in the format. The deck was obscenely fast, and hit very hard, and, as a result, many other decks became unplayable, as they could not win against Eldrazi. Many people who invested time, energy, and money into their cards suddenly had no way to win the game.

So, what is the solution? Many are calling for the banning of either Eldrazi Temple or Eye of Ugin. Some call for both. Some call for other cards to be unbanned. Ultimately, we won’t know for a while, but, until Wizards of the Coast does something, we are stuck dealing with this borderline-unplayable game.