Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-27810039-20160217103443

I'll preface this initial post of mine with an apology for if this question has already been discussed and expatiated upon to exhaustive degrees but in my defence I have spent a substantial amount of time scouring the internet looking for a thread that satiated my curiosity and divulged me of the information that I kind of...well...needed, kind of sort of.

So what it is, is that i've just finished watching the entirety of the original series (which aside from a few reservations here and there, I thoroughly enjoyed) as a result of this rewarding cartoon binge that i'm on--and one of my most favorite developments to come from the original was Gwen's magical prowess and how it operated in cohesion with Ben's alien antics and the over-arching narrative. I thought this was a really good narrative tool (it definitely could have benefited from more build-up and meat) that accentuated Gwen's personality and idiosyncracies as a character, and made me love her even more.

Slightly fastforward to the end of Alien Force Season 1, and I'm really underwhelmed, confused and annoyed at this anodite retcon along with some other things that aren't really pertinent to this topic but might very well be.

But my main issue is why? I've come to understand McDuffie (RIP), Matt Wayne et al and the new writers that took over from MOA weren't all too keen on the magic element and so decided to scrap it, but I just can't satisfy myself with that explanation.

Is there, like, a bigger justification for why general magic was anexed in favour of the anodite explanation? Or is it really just as simple as the creative team not wanting to go in that direction?

Thanks!!! 