Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24546717-20140725194729/@comment-24546717-20140731103503

Blaziken rjcf wrote: Dknikolov wrote:Because I wanted to show that the thing you've written is just your opinion. And I have mine, too. And it differs from yours. ...Which still doesn't say anything. My opinion is up for criticism, just as yours is. Why is the fact that they're opinions relevant to the points being made?

A new question arises, though: "Why didn't you just say that in the first place?"

If you'd like to explain why fans who haven't watched the OS aren't actually fans, it might help me to understand your opinion. At the moment, you sound like a genwunner (Pokémon fan term for the guys who think only the first gen of Pokémon is actually any good), who believes the original is always the best, regardless of the improvements made over the course of the series.

EDIT:

One of the problems with your opinion is that the logical conclusion is that one must go all the way back to the first cartoon to be able to claim to be a fan of any cartoon. After all, it was the original. Maybe even go further than that and go all the way back to the first image ever shown on a TV, or the first picture, or (...).

I want to note that I'm not looking for a fight. I'm looking for two things:

1 - For you to justify your opinion, so that I can understand it.

2 - To make you understand why holding such an opinion is illogical, should you be unable to justify it. There is nothing logical in going all the way back to the first cartoon ever... and to the first image. This is useless and it goes of the topic's range. Here, we're talking only about Ben 10. There are 4 series - Ben 10, Ben 10: Alien Force, Ben 10: Ultimate Alien, and Ben 10: Omniverse. Particularly in this franchise,  I think that true fans should have watched the OS because everything starts from there. And any other series made are actually continuations of it. If you haven't watched the Original Series, you would be confused in what's happening in the next series, and you would probably not understand many other things. You won't know anything about the characters' past, too.

As a fan since the franchise's actual premiere on Cartoon Network, I can say I have the necessary experience to tell if somebody is a true Ben 10 fan. But I can only compare others by myself. I just can't imagine me not watching Ben 10 from its very beginning. Watching not all of the series can make you a Ben 10 fan but not a true one, especially if you haven't watched the first one. It's just my opinion.