Eye of the Beholder

Eye of the Beholder is the 22nd episode of Ben 10: Ultimate Alien, and its the second episode of the second season.

Airdate
February 11, 2011

Plot
Baz-El is on a distant planet where he is stealing some valuable gems from some statues. Later, the statues seem to come to life, and attack Baz-El.

At a stadium, Julie is having tennis practice with Ship, but Ship suddenly hears Baz-El's cries for help, and leaves Julie to help his old owner. Meanwhile, at a museum, Ben, Gwen, and Kevin are fighting some Forever Knights and Ben fights them as Humongousaur, then Julie walks to him and asks for his help in locating Ship, who left to help Baz-El. However, Ben refuses because he thought Julie broke up with him again, but she never did that, but she explains that they might as well be broken up again. Gwen and Kevin eventually agree to help Julie. Ben finishes off the rest of the Forever Knights and goes to Jimmy Jones to discuss his struggle with Julie. Jimmy suggests to go talk to her, so Ben transforms into Jetray and flies into space to chase after the Mecha-Vehicle (since both Ship and the Rust Bucket 3 are unavailable, the RB3 is being used by the others to chase after ship).

Meanwhile, Baz-El is held captive by some cycloptic aliens called Churls led by Strabismus, who torture him to reveal the location of the missing statue eye. Ship then arrives to save Baz-El, but the Churls combine their power to strike Ship down.

Gwen, Kevin, and Julie find Ship, and although Ship recovers with Gwen's help, Ship refuses to go back to Earth without saving Baz-El first. Ben arrives at the planet, but everyone gives him the cold shoulder. As Gwen and Julie are walking, Kevin tells Ben that the reason Julie broke up with him early in Duped was because he was being a big jerk. Soon they reach Baz-El, who is still being tortured by the Churls to reveal the location of their precious artifact, the Occulent. However, Julie and Ship's loud talking blows their cover, and the aliens find them. They knock out Ben, Gwen, and Kevin before they could do anything. Strabismus tries to convince Ship to reveal the location of the Occulent for the safety of his friends' lives.

As the aliens grow impatient, they threaten Julie, but Ship merges with Julie to form their battle-suit and she knocks them out. As they work to fight the aliens, Ben becomes Brainstorm to free Baz-El, which works. Strabismus yells at Ben for destroying the altar in an act of blasphemy. The statues called the Sentinels awaken and begins to fight. Ben becomes Swampfire, but later changes to Ultimate Swampfire, and everyone begins to fight the Sentinels. However, it is revealed that Baz-El really did had the Occulent, so Julie does the heimlech manuever on him and makes Baz-El cough out the Occulent. The Sentinel that is missing its Occulent puts it in his eye socket and all of the Sentinels go back to stone. Baz-El explains that it is his job to measure all of the different elements on planets and also tends to take a few souvenirs for purchase as part of his "retirement plan".

Julie gives Ship to Baz-El, saying that Ship would be happier with him. But Baz-El intends to sell Ship to get even more money for retirement. However, Ship decides to remain with Julie, which makes her much happy, so Baz-El decides to stick with it. When Baz-El leaves, Ben apologizes to Julie for being such a jerk, saying that he still cares about her. Julie accepts and asks him if he'll promise to make it up to her by being a better boyfriend and as Ben says he'll try, she accepts with a smile and they embrace, happily.



Characters

 * Julie (Main character)
 * Ben
 * Gwen
 * Kevin
 * Baz-El
 * Ship
 * Will Harangue (non speaking cameo on TV channel only)
 * Jimmy Jones

Villains

 * Forever Knights
 * Sanctuary Guardians (Temporary)
 * Sentinels (Temporary)
 * Strabismus and the Churls (Temporary)

Aliens Used

 * Humungousaur (2x)
 * Jetray
 * Brainstorm
 * Swampfire
 * Ultimate Swampfire

Quotes

 * Ben: This is ridiculous (stumbles on the terrain) Whoa! I flew half way cross the galaxy just so Julie can tell me buzz off again? I don't deserves this. I'm a world famous hero!
 * Kevin: You're a world famous jerk!! Woah! (absorbs the ground and creates cleets for his shoes) That's better. And if you weren't such a jerk, maybe she wouldn't have dumped you in the first place!
 * Ben: Oh, so now you're the expert on feelings?
 * Kevin: No, but I'm an expert on jerks.
 * Ben: You know I don't have to take that from-Yah! (slips, Kevin smiles)


 * Julie: I hope Ship will be okay!
 * Gwen: Shhhhh! I need to concentrate. My magic doesn't work well on technology. (hears Kevin chewing) What are you doing?


 * Kevin: Eating a fleen cake, you want some?


 * Julie: I appreciate this. Gwen: Don't worry about it, we are glad to help.


 * Ben:Hey, I know I'm a jerk sometimes.
 * Gwen and Kevin: Sometimes!?
 * Ben: I got this.


 * Ben: (to Julie) But, you're the only person in my life, besides them, who isn't impressed by all that other stuff. You know the real me, faults and all and that's okay with you. Kinda.
 * Julie: "Kinda." You'll promise you'll do better?


 * Ben: (with a nervous smile) I promise I'll try.
 * Julie: (smiling) Then I'll try to.

Major Events

 * This is the first time Ben as Jetray fly into hyper-space drive with his own power.
 * Ship speaks his first word other than "Ship" which is "Julie" for the first time ever.
 * Ben promises Julie that he'll be a better boyfriend and she promises to be a better girlfriend, which makes them both happy again.

Errors

 * When in the Transformations of Jetray and Brainstorm, the Omnitrix is on Ben's wrist instead of the Ultimatrix, even though the Omnitrix was destroyed. It should be the Ultimatrix on his wrist.The creators must have put old Alien Force transformations to save money and time.

Trivia

 * This is the second epsode Julie doesn't uses her original clothes at all in this episode.
 * Gwen is again dressed in her Ultimate Alien outfit.
 * Ben thought that Julie broke up with him again, but Julie only said that because of Ben's little time with her they might as well be broken up.
 * Julie is seen in her battle suit for the third time and the second time for Julie shown to fight in it.
 * This is the first time Julie goes out into space with her friends and the first time on a different planet.
 * This is the third time when Ben used Ultimate Swampfire not on Earth, but in space.
 * Gwen has displayed the power to heal any living being, as shown when she healed ship.
 * When the aliens shot multiple lasers that created one big laser, it's similar to the Death Star's super laser from The Star Wars Saga.
 * This is the second time Gwen calls Ben by his full name.
 * 2nd appearance of Ship in Ultimate Alien and third time goes battle suit on Julie.
 * When Gwen was healing Ship, she said her powers don't work well on technology. She also called her power Magic, by saying Shh! I need to concentrate! My magic doesn't work well on technology. But if someone calls it magic, she gets annoyed.
 * Baz-El is revealed to be a treasure hunter.
 * "Eye of the Beholder" is also the same episode title of the Gargoyles Season 2 episode, an episode of Twilight Zone, and American Dragon: Jake Long.
 * Jimmy's peanut addiction shown in this episode will be a key item in The Big Story.
 * Ben, Gwen, Kevin and Julie appear to be able to breathe on the planet without their plumber suits on.
 * When Julie brings her hand up in armor and shoots a laser it is similar to Iron Man.
 * This is the first time we hear Ben's thoughts.
 * Even though Ben and Julie were said to have not been together in Duped, Julie forgave Ben for all his flaws in Hero Time and becomes his girlfriend again after he saves her life and calls her "his girl", as she smiles
 * Eye of beholder is also the 30th episode of mummies alive.