Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5537927-20130409163104/@comment-8505655-20130508215205

ICame2Play wrote: Silentia Altum wrote: ICame2Play wrote: 67.233.243.121 wrote: Crashhopper has not been truly overused yet. Nevertheless, I feel that the new Omniverse aliens are a little overused as a whole. I am looking at Bros in Space especially. The only alien to appear in a previous series was Shocksquatch, and he is practically a creation of Omniverse anyway, seeing as he was drastically redesigned since his single appearance in a crossover. Well I think its fair that a new series gets to flaunt its new aliens first. It was fine with AF, where he used the 10 new aliens for the first two seasons. UA should have made more use of the ultimates and Andromeda aliens for the first arc. Omniverse has new aliens we haven't seen before, so I think its fair they get a chance to be in the spotlight. In Alien Force, Ben could not access his old aliens. In Ultimate Alien, the Andromeda aliens appeared as characters, but were not themselves used all too much. The ultimates were a special case; they were really older aliens. But Omniverse does not have such an excuse. What point are you trying to make?

"were not themselves used all too much" = Exactly! They should have been used more since they were hyped as the new aliens for UA. The DNA donors themselves appeared like, 3 or 4 times tops.

The Ultimates were not older aliens. They were very different (mostly) and were something the show has never seen before. Plus they were hyped because the series '''should have revolved around them. '''That's why the show's called Ultimate Alien isn't it?

Those aren't excuses. And a show needs to becaome its own without relying too much on another one. That's why Omniverse still stands, and it deserves to use its own aliens.

The point is that most of the time, Ben sticks with a certain set of aliens for the great majority of all transformations. On occasion, it makes sense that a new one will be added into this favored group or another lose favor, but something peculiar is happening when common transformations just cease or are replaced all at once.

Hype means nothing within the context of the storyline. Even if aliens are new, there is no reason for them to receive special treatment. The Ultimates were used ad nauseam, but that was acceptable because, being older aliens in essence, they were not trying to shove down our throats that Ben had suddenly turned to using entirely new aliens.

Omniverse has no grounds to be in any way different from its predecessors if this means disturbing continuity.