Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26200221-20151211162449/@comment-4848837-20160110224437

So... I'm kinda just finding this thread now. Apologies for breaking any conversations going on, just wanted to thank OP for making this; it's a far better idea than having a thread where people senselessly suggest what "has" to be in the show without thinking about how their suggestion fits into the grand scheme of the reboot.

But there's kinda the same thing going on over here with no elaboration. If you're gonna say you don't want X in the reboot, don't say you just don't want X. Anything can be done well, and UAF and OV both handled some things subjectively and objectively worse than they could have. Say that you don't want X handled the way they were, and what about how they were handled you don't want. Because without a doubt, we'll probably see everything from the original franchise return, just in a different form.

Specifically, don't say you don't want new voice actors. This isn't the same franchise; they want to differentiate Ben 10 from the show it was. If they change the voice actors, GOOD. It's like when they rebooted Powerpuff Girls -- new voice actors, because they wanted it to be different. It's like when they reboot these big movie franchises, they want to be different.

Specifically, don't say you don't want Ben from UAF. He grew up. And whether this idea is what really happened, think of things like this for just a second: What if they made Ben the way he was was because they wanted him to become like the Ben 10,000 from the original series? Sure, that Ben 10K ep in UA broke that idea, pretty much (not like Paradox said that that timeline wasn't set in stone or anything, which some will ignore). But Ben was heading down that path. Being so arrogant, and so dark, and just so far removed from happiness. It's clever, because Ben didn't want to be that. But do you think that original Ben 10K ever just woke up and said he did want that? No, he never did. But it happened. Things happen. It's not gonna go the way you want it to go. Sure, for a 10 year old, it will. But for a 15 year old, as your eyes are a bit more open and you're a teenager? Please, things aren't easy and don't go the way you want it to.

For the reboot, there are simple things I don't want: paradoxes that don't make sense, poor handling of time travel such as in the Time War arc of Omniverse, aliens that just break any sense of fear for the protags because they're just too damn OP, retcons, more enemy team-ups that just lead to betrayal (like what happened to Eon twice in OV, like what Vilgax did to both Eon and Albedo, etc.), and Flanderization of the original franchise characters.