Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-7503158-20160205001637/@comment-34326521-20160308190225

You do understand that Verdona and Xylene are two different characters, right? Verdona left for Anodyne and was gone for decades. Max later met and fell in love with Xylene.

The concept of Primus is a retcon because it was erased from the main continuity; not because it was added. I call some of the things you refer to as "retcons" as "not-retcons" because they're expansions of the lore; not a contradiction of it. Calling you "genwunner" is irrelevant in the grand scheme. Proving you as such, however, is not. The opinions of people who complain about change because it's change (regardless of the quality) can be safely disregarded as complaining for the sake of complaining. You are a prime example of this: you complain about the "changes" made in AF/UA, but also complain about the undoing of those changes in OV. Your problem is not the content of the change; it's the change itself.

Yes, I do think it is beneath Azmuth to do that, for one simple reason: storage. No device can hold over a million genetic samples while also being able to rewrite a being's DNA in a fraction of a second and not mess anything up. Do you have any idea how complex DNA is? The amount of storage required to save just a thousand genetic samples goes beyond what a mere wristwatch can hope to contain (and note that most of the Omnitrix's volume was dedicated to just keeping itself on Ben's wrist).

As for what's better, let me tell you right now, it's more practical, beneficial, cost-effective, easier to maintain and fix, and less flawed to keep different components as separate as possible. That way, when something fails, not only can you easily identify what the broken component is, but you can also identify where the broken component is, since it's not all amalgamated. This is programming 101. Besides, how exactly is it more practical, beneficial, cost-effective, easier to maintain and fix, and less flawed to have to locate the Omnitrix, get Ben to give it up, bring it to a lab (most likely with Ben either still attached to it or going along anyway), open it up, fix it, then send Ben back to wherever he was?

For the record, it was never said that the Omnitrix actually contained any genetic samples, FYI. That's just your presumption.