Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6527064-20150725002151/@comment-26812877-20151118173926

Where should I even start?

Well, I explained a lot about Kevin earlier on this page when I had an argument with another individual. To me, not only was Kevin's transition from villain to hero and Kevin being Gwen's boyfriend was just so poorly done and so badly forced and rushed but Kevin just never worked as a hero character. Yeah, he had some good aspects about him but it just doesn't work considering the type of character that Kevin is and his past encounters with Ben and Gwen. It doesn't make sense at all and is not understandable as to why this even happened. I just didn't like Kevin as a hero.

There''s also all the stupid freakin changes in the continuity that Cartoon Network did such as making the Plumbers an intergalactic law enforcement agency when the Original Series pointed out that really the Plumbers were actually a secret Earth organization specialized in fighting extraterrestrial threats and were all humans.

Let's get to the Omnitrix next. When the Omnitrix recalibrated, for some reason, it changed its physical appearance. What purpose does that bring? How is the Omnitrix even capable of doing that and why does it do that? It doesn't make sense and it's not what Azmuth built the Omnitrix for. I can understand the recalibration maybe but one thing that I know for sure is that Azmuth would not design the Omnitrix to have a feature that brought no purpose whatsoever. There are also other aspects of the Omnitrix in the sequels that contradict its true design and purpose. Azmuth made the Omnitrix for the purpose of allowing better communication between all the species in the universe and unite them together peacefully. Therefore, why does the Omnitrix have some sort of DNA repair function that Ben could use to fix the DNAliens and turn them back into humans? How about Primus? Azmuth made a planet that acts as the actual location for where all the Omnitrix's DNA samples are stored at? The Omnitrix is actually a wireless network receiver connected to Primus somehow and not a storage unit? How does the Omnitrix even work at all if Ben goes into other dimensions? It doesn't make sense. I'm glad that they decided to remove Primus from continuity in Omniverse. It was outright stupid and again contradicts Azmuth's true purpose of making the Omnitrix. The same goes with the Ultimatrix and Primus.

Let's get to the characters here. There was one point in Alien Force where Max supposedly died when he overloaded his Null Void Projector to destroy a Highbreed facility. How does Ben react to this? He gives out a cliche "NOOOOOO" and then afterwards, he and Gwen just go on their merry way. Not one shed of a tear. Not one mere second of mourning for their loss. In the Original Series, when Ben encounters Rojo for the first time, Max gets injured and when that happened, Ben broke. He felt guilty for what happened. It was there that he realized that having the Omnitrix means that those that are important to him are in danger. Ben was even willing to run away in order to protect Gwen and Max, his family. In "Secret of the Omnitrix," when Gwen is dragged away by a wild Florauna (Wildvine), Ben was willing to risk accelerating the self destruct mode on the Omnitrix in order to try and save her and when he failed and thought that Gwen died, Ben broke down. It hurt him so so so bad. When Ben later found out that Gwen was actually alive, he cried in joy and happiness and even ran across an entire battlefield just so he could hug her and reunite with her. In Alien Force, when Max supposedly died, we get Ben screaming "No" and that was it and that's how it was throughout the sequels. For the most part, there were a lot of badly made attempts of displaying emotion.

How about the DNAliens? We eventually find out that the DNAliens were actually innocent human people that were under the control of Xenocytes. However, Ben, Gwen, and Kevin show little reaction to this and even went around and killed a bunch of DNAliens. Even after this discovery. Anyone would probably counter argue that by saying that there was no other option but they're wrong. Again, the Omnitrix had some magical DNA repair function that could turn a DNAlien back into a human. Not only that but Cooper saw that very function in use once during the final battle against the Highbreed and he was able to make DNA guns out of his very mech suit in mere seconds. Why didn't Cooper do that earlier knowing how intelligent he is? Despite having other options to take down the DNAliens in a non-lethal or less lethal matter, Ben, Gwen, and Kevin continued to make actions that resulted in the deaths of the DNAliens who are again innocent human people.Yeah, great job displaying our main characters as heroes, Cartoon Network. Same goes for Dwayne McDuffie and Glen Murikami as well.

How about Ben's aliens in the sequels? Most were way too powerful. Swampfire could regenerate from basically any injury so he's nearly unstoppable. Big Chill could go intangible so considering all his other powers, he made Ghostfreak useless. Echo Echo completely made Ditto and Benwolf completely useless since that Echo Echo could just clone himself indefinitely and doesn't have to worry about that very same link that Ditto has. I mean like for crying out loud, Ben has Alien X, who is literally unstoppable and is literally the most powerful alien in the entire universe. Once Ben gets pass Serena and Bellicus, nothing could stop him. Nothing. All he has to do is blink and his enemies are done for. This broke the tension in the series. In the Original Series, every villain was able to properly and tuly challenge Ben. Even Dr. Animo. Now with these new aliens, even Vilgax is progressively becoming less capable of being able to challenge Ben. All of Ben's enemies are becoming less and less capable of truly challenging Ben. It's even worse when Ben got the Ultimatrix and used his aliens' Ultimate Forms.

Some aliens are even pointless to put into the show. Why put in Echo Echo if Ben already has Ditto and Benwolf? Why put in Eatle when that alien is just a direct copy of Upchuck? Fasttrack is the worse. He is a blatant and pointless copy of XLR8 and doesn't even look like an alien at all. Fasttrack looks exactly like a superhero. I don't even believe that Fasttrack is even stronger than XLR8. I mean like apparently Fasttrack being able to carry Hulka and Tack proves that he's stronger than XLR8, as stated by Matt Wayne? There were moments in the Original Series where XLR8 was able to carry multiple individuals at once. He one time was able to pull three people (two adults and one kid) out of a lake and get them to shore before the Krakken was able to get them. That same episode, XLR8 was able to grab one of the Krakken's tendrils (or what ever those things on it's mouth was) and mamaged to pull it's grasp off of the cannery box (which actually had its egg in). There was even another moment where XLR8 was able to carry both Gwen and Max, who is a pretty big guy to carry. I'd say that Matt Wayne is full of BS and that Fasttrack is actually not stronger than XLR8 and that the two aliens are equally strong. Maybe XLR8 is actually stronger than Fasttrack and considering that XLR8 could control his speed better than Fasttrack, Fasttrack is completely useless and pointless to have in the show. Cartoon Network should've brought back XLR8 in Ultimate Alien instead of making Fasttrack.

One of my biggest problems with Ultimate Alien was that it pretty much lost its interest after the first season. To me, they just ended up dragging on the conflict with the Diagon and the Forever Knights for the rest of the show. I got bored really quickly.

I'll stop here for now. If I keep continuing onwards, I'm going to end up making a book of all these problems with the sequels. If anyone wants to hear more, feel free to ask but this is where I'm going to stop for now.