Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-241978-20140506020322/@comment-34326521-20140806112457

Dknikolov wrote: Blaziken rjcf wrote: Dknikolov wrote: Blaziken rjcf wrote: Dknikolov wrote: The main thing I love in Omniverse is that it's fixing these retcons. Which ones? Going from the list in the first post:

Plumbers are still an intergalactic police force. Kevin is still an alien hybrid. Magic is still powered by mana. Vilgax is largely unknown at the moment, but he did save Ben, and he's still the ruler of Vilgaxia. Azmuth is still arrogant (maybe even more so than before). Eon is still an alternate version of Ben. The Galactic Enforcers are still irrelevant. Primus itself had been discarded within Alien Force/Ultimate Alien just about at the same time as it was proposed, so you can't give Omniverse the credit there. As for Elena, we haven't heard from her, so we don't know.

What exactly is Omniverse "fixing"? Best I can figure out is that it's turning a 16 year-old boy into an 11 year-old child, which is fine if you're blinded by nostalgia, but not fine if you're not. The original series is over. It ended several years ago. Ben grew up and became a somewhat different person, as we all do. Were you the same person at 16 than you were at 11? I highly doubt it. First, I never said anything about Ben's character. Nobody is the same person when he grows up. Second, Omniverse is not as serious series like UAF and I think Ben's personality is changed only for making it look more fun. Which I don't agree with, honestly.

I meant particularly the retcon with Kevin when I was writing. I hadn't thought of more. Sorry. I know you didn't say anything about Ben's character; I did. I was adding to my point, which is that Omniverse isn't "fixing" anything. It's actually breaking a lot of things. Not that you aren't right but give an example. Ben's personality, Gwen and Kevin leaving (although Rook is awesome; don't get me wrong), horrible redesigns (is Big Chill supposed to look like he's on steroids?)...