User blog:TheMaximumMatt/First Impressiosns on Future Tense

Salutations everyone. I just saw the new episode, Future Tense, and I thought I would give my very quick first thoughts on it.

What's the story here? When Rita and Lynn Sr. meet a successful family, they start to worry about their kids' future.

To make it simple, I thought it was simply fun. For one, I like the new family that this episode introduces. I like it how rather than making the neighbors your typical snobby, critical parents, they make them actually likable, funny people. The way they act so perfect combined with the overthetop smiling they do is pretty funny. And just the way they these people unintentionally get on the parents' minds only adds to the humor they make. On top of that, the Loud family also has a ton of good jokes. They way they react to whatever the parents put them through was hilarious. I also like how we got a few small callbacks to previous episodes, like For Bros About to Rock (Lisa being the only one who enjoys the opera) and Along Came a Sister (Leni's fear of spiders). I do like how instead giving the implication that the parents want to be better than these neighbors, that they are actually concerned that they might be bad parents and are concerned about the future of the kids. That's another thing I like about this episode. It manages to avoid all of these cliches that would have made this episode annoying or lackluster.

The only major complaint I have is that the ending was very rushed. I thought the parents realizing their mistake was way too fast and forced. I think the way to fix this is to cut out some of the scenes that seem a bit like filler. For example, the new family introducing themselves seemed to go on a bit too long for me. If they had made some small trimmings here and there, it would have left time for the parents to slowly realize their mistake and more of how the kids were acting "perfect". It also would have helped make the "thinking about the present instead of future" message stronger. It had so much potential here that it could have reached. At the same time I'm not going to be too harsh on it, considering that 11-minutes seems a lot shorter than you think it is... although shows like Steven Universe and Star Vs. can also tell long, adventurous, and even heartwarming stories within the same time limit.

In conclusion, despite the rushed pacing near the end, this was a pretty okay episode. It did have some good jokes and we do get some good spotlight on the parents. While I wouldn't say it makes my 20 best loud house episodes list so far, it definitely would make it in the honorable mentions.

Although, keep in mind that these are my first impressions on the episode and that I've only seen it once. When I get the time to rewatch the episode, I will put my official thoughts on the episode sometime in the future. So for now, I'll say that despite the lack of reaching its potential, I enjoyed this episode!