Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-24546423-20161001131751/@comment-34326521-20161010115011

Pros:
 * Most jokes are at least somewhat amusing.
 * Character establishment from the first minute, at least for Ben and Gwen.

Cons:
 * Paul Eiding is gone.
 * Max is just kinda there as a generic parent figure that helps start/advance the plot sometimes. He's not a character; he's a cardboard cut-out with a few lines.
 * Show has too much comedy, and most of it is highly predictable.
 * Episodes progress so quickly it's like watching an original series short. They need to slow it down a lot.
 * The series doesn't appear to have a story. It's a "monster-of-the-week" format, without any sense of time or direction.
 * They skipped over the origin story, one of the most important moments in the original series. We're just dropped in the middle of the story, without any context. For us, old fans, it's fine. For new viewers, it's going to be confusing unless they lack the capacity to understand context, in which case they shouldn't be watching TV in the first place.
 * No "sibling" rivalry between Ben and Gwen, another important point of the original series. This takes away much of the character development potential.
 * Gwen is an idiot. One of her most important characteristics in the original series, IMO, was her intelligence; how she figured things out before anyone else and came up with solutions they couldn't see. Now, she's a generic 10 year-old about as clever as a slice of salami. In fact, most of the characters are dumb.