Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6527064-20151205151611/@comment-5057483-20151216123428

Great Ochoa wrote: Yup, just keep it as simple plain old magic. It would have been completely fine that way.

Yeah, that is a good point. CN tried to do a lot of fixing that only further created more problems. A better solution to handling the problems that the Ben 10 sequels created isn't to fix them but to instead remove them from the series. Remove Gwen being half Anodite and keep her fully human. Remove Kevin being a good guy and keep him as a villain. Remove the immature and idiotic Ben and bring back the Original Series Ben and I already explained what I mean by that. Remove the Plumbers being an intergalactic police force and keep them as a top secret earth organization. Heck, in the Original Series, the Plumbers disbanded and were no longer functioning after Max defeated Vilgax in the past so maybe for the most part the Plumbers shouldn't even be around at all, or at the very least maybe have them build themselves back up.

Heck, I even read a Ben 10 fan fiction series that did so much better at being a sequel to the Original Series than AF, UA, and OV combined. For example, the Plumbers in that fan fiction series were reorganizing themselves back up in response to Ben having the Omnitrix; even becoming at least somewhat corrupted or something, which felt really nice and fitting for the Plumbers. You know that Cartoon Network screwed up even further when fan fiction stories bring much better justice to the Ben 10 series. ___

This is something I can agree with. One thing I hate more than no power balance is lack of continuity and over arcing plots. I want a story, not stuff that can be left out. To me, everything beyond the original series is filler in the bad sense. Blame lack of continuity. Screw alternate timelines, it makes research for fanfiction writing a nightmare.