Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-34260455-20180124165442/@comment-34260455-20180127182816

I think we've been coming at this from the wrong angle here. Maybe OV's Ben 10k really IS OS Ben 10k. It's never directly stated in OV that Ben Prime will grow up to become Ben 10k; we've all been assuming that's the case. Ben Prime's timeline and Ben 10k's timeline could very well be completely separate, and we're just revisiting that OS timeline. After all, it didn't just vanish.

There are a few plot holes of course, such as Ben 10k remembering Skurd and Spanner, but that problem can be hand-waved away with the idea that Ben 10k's timeline closely mirrors the Prime one. Spanner could've easily visited both the Prime timeline and the Ben 10k timeline, and Ben could've met Skurd in other timelines as well.

Maybe we don't have to discredit Derrick's "shifting" rants.