Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26200221-20160223142644/@comment-2251739-20160307081237

Stryzzar wrote: Ragnarok could easily just want to harvest a star but have a deal with the Rooters to reinforce Kevin's false memories. Of course, it doesn't make sense that they'd let him try to do something so damaging to earth. I guess it just boils down to your priorities. Personally, I'd rather blame UAF for building so heavily on a stupid idea than blame OV for trying to retcon it.
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Individual designs will always just be a matter of opinion - I'm kind of neutral on Kevin and Gwen, Max's eyes are supposed to be squinty but at the same time I don't like how he looks more slender with his fancy white pants. I like most of the redesigns, some just on opinion and some on certain principals (such as Eatle actually looking like a beetle and Jury Rigg not being butt-ugly).

But by "design quality" I just meant that they had more budget for designs and put a lot more thought into them. I don't agree with all the design concepts like you don't, but I admire the effort. For example, I don't like how the Ectonurites look like village peasants, scarecrows, and actual ghosts of people who died (like how some of them wear chains or are in some kind of torture device type thing), but I'm very glad they're not all just Ben's Ghostfreak without an Omnitrix.



Since people are talking about how they'd put Omniverse as the worst series; I agree with Echo. I'd easily put Ultimate Alien as the worst. It brings nothing new to the table except Ultimates, of which five (arguably SIX) are boring minor retools of their normal form, out of a total of only nine that appeared. It would be forgiveable if it was well-written, but the first season is about a boring villain trying to take over the universe again, the second season has Kevin go murder-crazy again (because we totally needed more Kevin focus after AF S3), the third season is a big Sir George and the Dragon parody starring Vilgax as Cthulhu, and all of it plays like a dark and edgy fanfic (including many one-off episodes not related to the season arc, such as Catch a Falling Star).

At least Alien Force feels like a new world to explore with mysteries to solve, and OV has a whole change-up with lots of neat concepts to think about. UA is just more of AF season 3, plus Ultimates.