Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24922135-20170810135124/@comment-26812877-20170811195112

This is in response to both of your most recent comments.

Uh...no, that's not where the claim came from. Not once in my previous comments on this page had I implied that the OS lore is better than the reboot lore. That's not my claim. My claim is that after the OS, CN and CN Studios put too much of a focus on implementing Ben's aliens and on exploring the Ben 10 universe and too less of a focus on providing strong and proper writing, storytelling, and characters and they are repeating that same mistake again with the Ben 10 reboot. I'm not arguing against the quality of the reboot lore itself. I'm arguing against CN and MoA's focus on it over providing a proper story and proper character development for the reboot show; especially when said show is suffering from mediocre and bland writing and storytelling and a lack of proper character development.

Also, what you're referring to is not self-insertion then. It's audience surrogate. Even then, whether or not Ben is an audience surrogate, he's still a character that goes through his own character development. I don't even see him as an audience surrogate and there are various characteristics about Ben that makes him unrelatable. If anything, Ben has more of a relation to Peter Parker in Spider-Man than he does to the audience.

I'm linking CN's greater focus on lore building to their lesser focus on the writing, storytelling, and characters. As for the Ben 10 toys, I don't even buy Ben 10 toys. I never have. To me, having a strong direction and focus is one of the most important factors to making all sorts of various works...if not the most important factor to take into account of. I know this because I'm aspiring to work as a video game designer and part of being a game designer is providing a strong focus and direction on various projects. Doesn't matter how good of a production team that you have and how hard-working and passionate they are if you don't have a strong and proper focus and direction to drive the project forward. The Ben 10 reboot has poor writing, storytelling, and a lack of character development, which tells me that there was a lack of proper focus and direction in those very areas. I also thought back to the Ben 10 sequel shows and I see those same issues in them as well. I also noticed that there was too much of a focus on the aliens and the lore as well, which I can see why considering how much CN like to push out Ben 10 merchandise. The Ben 10 sequel shows and the Ben 10 reboot lacks proper focus and direction and what I stated in my previous comments are my reasons as to why.

Sure, these shorts and Omni-Tricked can be argued as being the highlights of the Ben 10 reboot but those alone don't make the reboot itself a good show because it still suffers from the very issues that I stated that the Ben 10 reboot has. being considered among the best of the greater franchise? Maybe to you and some others but I disagree on that; especially with Omni-Tricked because even though that season finale can be considered as arguably good, or at the very least decent, but it's definitely not great and definitely not worthy of being considered among the best of the greater franchise. Omni-Tricked has plenty of issues that significantly affects it and prevents it from having better quality than what we actually got. You would know what my issues with Omni-Tricked would be if you had seen my review of the season 1 finale on my Deviant-art account as well as on the Ben 10 Club website. I'm not trying to say and imply that you're wrong. I'm just expressing my disagreements. If that's what you think, I'm willing to understand that.