Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6527064-20151205151611/@comment-26812877-20151216073056

Again, your opinion on Kevin is your opinion and I'm fine with that. I don't like Kevin in the sequels but, again, he does stand out better than Ben and Gwen, which as I mentioned before is both a good and bad aspect about him because he was more interesting and entertaining than Ben and Gwen in Alien Force. Ben and Gwen were supposed to be the main focus of the series and there were time where Kevin stole the scenes from them and I really don't like that. Yeah, I know the whole story with the Rooters. To me, it was another example of CN trying to fix the problems instead of removing them. In general, I don't like retcons at all and all the retcons in Ben 10 only made things worse for the series. Again, don't try to fix the problems; remove and get rid of them. All the retcons and changes that made the series worse, get rid of them and go for a different and more favorable direction. Rebooting Ben 10 Alien Force would have been a much better route to take than continuing on making more sequels and now currently rebooting the Original Series. This is what fans truly want in the Ben 10 series and once again, Cartoon Network is screwing things up even further by making the reboot of the Original Series. I'm currently in an effort to try and convince Cartoon Network to go for the sequel reboot approach. Heck, Man of Action agrees with my arguments and criticisms on the Ben 10 Reboot, which goes to show how problematic it is.

One other thing about Ben in Alien Force is that him being serious and not having fun is something that he doesn't even truly want to become. The episode "Ben 10,000" shows the very reason why. Despite the hero status that Ben 10,000 gains, Ben saw what he would end up becoming and he didn't like that at all. He saw that his future self would become too serious in the hero business and not have any fun at all, even willing to skip Max's 80th birthday just to do more hero work, and because of all of that, Ben saw his future self as a terrible person and a jerk and doesn't want to become like that. Therefore, it really ticks me off that the new writers made Ben more like the very person that he never wanted to become. In Alien Force, they made Ben into the very person that he was against becoming. If there was a reason that justified Ben's behavior and Ben removing the Omnitrix in Alien Force, such as a tragic event that he experienced, then that would be fine but nope, they never explained any of that.