Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5808856-20141104173641/@comment-1458758-20141112220149

BrimStoned wrote: I'm pretty sure it was you who said that you didn't think Ben needed skurd because he beat Vilgax every time before, but that was before Vilgax was powered up. Also, pretty much everytime they fight Ben almost loses, so its not like he can just beat him easily. It was me, but my point isn't that Ben should be able to beat Vilgax easily, not at all, it's tht every time before now, Ben has won. When he was 10 and had no idea about fighting aliens, he beat Vilgax, when Vilgax came back with the powers of 10 interstellar champions, he beat Vilgax, when Vilgax was transformed into some semi-demonic Cthulu thing, Ben beat him.

My point isn't that he should beat Vilgax easily by this point, or that Vilgax isn't some kind of legitimate threat, it's that Vilgax in Malware armour (Not even with the consciousness of Malware to make it a more 2 vs 1 scenario) was apparently so overwhelming that he confidently said Ben could choose ANY alien from his arsenal, an arsenal which includes aliens that are a hundred feet tall and control cosmic storms, manipulate one of the fundamental forces of reality, or can recreate the universe in its entirety, but in order to win this time Vilgax came back stronger, Ben absolutely, with no apparent alternative, needed to have Skurd with him, that I find is pushing it too far.

Until now, I disliked the fact that Skurd was thrown in by corporate mandate, but I thought the creators handled it well and at least made him entertaining, it's this episode however that I think they went to far, called to much attention to the fact that they've been made to push this concept and that was just too much for me.