Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25380879-20151029142138

I am a pretty big fan of ben ten. I've watched every episode at least once, I've seen the secret of the omnitrix DVD special, Destroy All Aliens and Race Against Time. I only watched a bit of alien swarm. And I'm interested to see the reboot.

The original series. By god it was the best one. Back then the idea was original. Each episode was a rollercoaster of fun. You never knew where the plot would go next! Sure the humour could be childish at times and the filler could be a bit... Random (*cough* *cough* Mr Jingles). But the characters felt human and it had some seriously chilling and mature moments. The music was spot on, the transformations were mesmerising, the artstyle was good and the aliens all felt unique. Vilgax was a tyrant, bent on the capture of the omnitrix so that he could rule the universe. Kevin was a total psychopath who had been rejected and ridiculed his whole life for being a freak of nature, his instability being targeted at ben. Doctor Animo was still intimidating. Hex was creepy. Ghostfreak (Sorry, "Zs'Skayr") was terrifying. Zombozo wasn't a walking joke. The forever knights were the ultimate force of evil. It was great! There's nothing I can say to fault this series, I love it!

Alien Force... Was bearable. The starting premise is fairly harmless. It's five years after the original and Ben hasn't worn the omnitrix for many years. Grandpa Max has gone missing. Kevin is filling in the spo- wait what!?! Kevin joins team Ben. Ben, the guy that Kevin despised beyond all other things! Really? He was a pyschopath! It also turns out that he wasn't abandoned at all and was just paranoid and ran away! I don't like that at all. It destroys the whole point of why Kevin was how he was. The reason why he was intimidating, the reason why he kept coming back, the reason why Ben learnt a valuable lesson in the episode Kevin was introduced! And that's just the tip of the iceberg! Gwen apparently isn't using magic, just alien energy powers which is like magic... Okay! Vilgax has lost everything which made him intimidating! His voice sounds like a twelve-year-old who's putting a rough undertone in his voice to make him sound tough and evil, like in all rubbish youtube ben ten stop motions! He has a mouth again for some reason. And he has all the colours of the rainbow plastered to him! WHY!?! Ugh. Also, Ben's aliens are OP and he never seems to realise how much so! Especially Echo Echo. Echo Echo is the ultimate being of destruction. He can clone indefinately, when one of his clones dies, it doesn't effect anyone else! Do I even need to explain why that's OP? He even demonstrates in one episode. Keeping one hidden away in the boot (the trunk) of Kevin's car so that even if all the other Echo Echo clones die, ben will still live to fight another day! Any threat would be quickly overwhelmed by the combination of their sonic screams and shear numbers that would tear it apart like ants! Now way big is just as useful as before, plus he can shoot energy beams! Swampfire is also the ultimate crazy-good alien. He can regenerate himself from the tiniest shreds. He has power over fire. He has the capability to create explosions. He can bring giant vines up from the ground to manipulate much like diamondhead's diamond. He can control plants! He is fairly strong and agile. And water won't dampen his abilities or weaken him because he's not made of fire. More on this later. 