Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26200221-20151211162449/@comment-26812877-20160215153020

Seeing Ben mature and grow up is important for Ben as a character. The problem, at least for me, with Ben in Alien Force wasn't that he was mature and serious. It was that he was bland and dull and boring at times. Ben no longer became that fun and entertaining of a character for me. It's fine to have Ben to be mature and serious but, at least in my opinion, Ben was too serious in Alien Force and as a result, he just wasn't that fun and entertaining of a character anymore. Yuri Lowenthal's performance didn't help much either. He and Ashley Johnson sounded pretty bored with voicing Ben and Gwen respectively at times and they both gave pretty bland and dull performances.

Again, Ben maturing is important for him as a character but just because Ben is maturing and growing up doesn't mean that they have to take away that cocky, impulsive, mischievous, etc attitude away from him because it took that energy he gave away as well. Ben being mature and serious did not make him a bad character but, at least in my opinion, it did do a significant amount of damage to him as a character. It's fine for Ben to be mature and serious but at the same time, make him a fun and entertaining character to watch as well. Don't take away certain aspects that made Ben such a fun, well-developed, and overall great character. Add something new to Ben. Keep everything that made Ben great and then improve him as a character even more by adding new concept and elements to him. Don't change something that's already great. Don't try to fix something that isn't broken. Make improvements instead. Add something new.