Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-7503158-20170312031726/@comment-27212711-20170617205244

Red Hawk1 wrote: I will be brutally honest. I would prefer to have a more continued version of the original series, but with things as they are, we have to take what we can get. I mean, do you guys want Ben 10 to turn out like Samurai Jack? The last season was mature for kids. I feel like the decision was to push it back to kids. They just pushed much to hard. I dislike several aspects, but I can take some. Wildvine has a cooler body. He actually pulled a cool move with Upgrade. We saw a Vilgax version of Ben. I miss several aliens, and I am legitimately pissed that several were removed from the original 10, and even more so over the fact that we had to wait for the end of the first season to get a new alien. But we have to wait, and hope that with recent events in the show, things will get better. The last story is the one that should have continued (omniverse with them traveling through space) and that's true we have to take what Cartoon Network is giving us

Do we want Ben 10 to turn out like Samurai Jack, the direction that would go would be to go back to where it was with AF/UA/OV where all of those were targeted to older kids, if it were to go dark it would air after 8PM (where Cartoon Network would sign off and go to bed which effectively starts williams street's time and would shut out Ben 10's target audience kids).

Samurai Jack's last year was intended for adult audiences which is why the decision to air it on Adult Swim was made, because that show's fanbase wanted it to go more serious than seasons 1-4. Season 5 goes on Adult Swim because despite Cartoon Network creating the original show it would be inappropriate to target the final season to its original audience

As cartoon network created the original show it is the only time the cartoon network studios/productions logo is permitted to appear during the block, williams street's own appears because it also is adult swims programmer (with The Cartoon Network Incorporated copyright stamp at the bottom, Time Warner being two words unlike the motion picture division where both are together)

Omniverse was too dark for kids, i never noticed that. so the decision was to lighten up and go back to kids?

I agree they tried too hard, they should if they wish to continue reboot ben's story to do an AF2/UA2/OV2 but target at the initial audience those shows were intended for to avoid williams street time older kids and their families. but if we go too dark its going to Adult Swim where it can't be distributed to kids and would only be allowed to air after 8 at night and never on CN's time

They did good redesigning certain aliens and created some fairly original designs on others, decent but not that great

It was long overdue to let ben access a chimera sui generis sample, and let him turn into his own version of vilgax which is a great decision by the reboot writers to do

Im guessing as to why several came off the original 10 was because either they were hard to animate by whoever is animating this reboot that Cartoon Network chose to contract for a vendor, or they would not be accepted by a new generation of kids, we don't know and would never know

The good moments come with waiting, this franchise involved a lot of waiting for new aliens throughout its life on Cartoon Network, but the waiting should be well worth it in the end