Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-4650837-20130822170853/@comment-11462520-20130823175925

The 4 series have both pretty damn cool elements and pretty lame elements. I mean, they all have things that I love and things I dispise.

-The original series has, in my opinion, some of the best villains (original vilgax, vilgax's drones, zombozo, hex, etc.) and aliens (upgrade, fourarms, xlr8, upchuck, etc...). On the other hand, the attitude of ben as a kid is sometimes bothering. Is just... I don't know, selfish maybe? But as long as he's a kid, you can actually forgive that attitude, because that's how most of kids are, even with a responsability as huge as the omnitrix.

Plus, the original ben 10 had the best intro ever and the best transformations yet. I really can't think of someone who dares discuse these two points.

-AF started great and was most of the time great. The highbreed arc and motives to be "bad guys" were awesome, some of the aliens were cool, kevin is a pretty well-constructed character, that is both good or bad depending on the situation.Ben was more mature, Gwen was... Gwen, and the other characters where fine. On the other hand, I never liked the hype their generated about alien x (seriously, he was pretty disappointing when he finally came out), I didn't like some of the episodes/villains, the idea of gwen being alien and, well that's all.

AF didn't have that much of a great intro, and the transformation sequence were just so lame... but overall the characters were better than the first ben 10.

-UA was fine at first. The andromeda aliens arc was pretty enjoyable, the designs were the same that in AF, the ultimate idea was cool, the idea of ben being a celebrity was funny. However, the ben/julie relationship was sometimes stupid (even though I don't personally like julie, ben was such a jerk to her in some episodes), most of the ultimates were lame, some episodes were lame (my personal most hated is "the secret of chromastone"). The idea of eunice was... dumb, and then was ultimate ben. That HAS TO BE THE WORST IDEA OF THE ENTIRE FRANCHISE undoubtedly.

Anyway, some transformations were quite as good as the ones in the first ben 10 (the transformation for ampfibian, for example) and the intro was a bit better.

-Omniverse is as enjoyable as the first and the second. Is funny to go through ben 10 forums with a bag of popcorn and just sit and read the rants about the designs and the animation. I bet that 99% of people who hates omniverse only hates it because of the designs. But going to the plot, is interesting to see ben interacting without his all-time team of gwen and kevin. Rook is pretty funny, and the way he's totally serious about his job while ben is totally relaxed makes it funny to watch. The new aliens are overall good; gravattack, toepick, ballweevil and feedback are cool, others are just fine and is pretty difficult to say that any of the aliens are lame. I personally don't find any of the new aliens to be that bad. Bloxx's concept is a bit weird, honestly, but the alien itself is fine.

The good thing about omniverse, in my opinion, is that is more cartoony than the former series. Even being a bit more childlish, it allows some jokes or plots that could have been weird on any of the other series.

Omniverse has fine villains (overall) and the characters are pretty much the same. The transformation sequences are still not as good as the ones in the original series, but the intro is a bit better than AF and UA. But seriously, NO ONE overshadows the awesome intro from the first ben 10 XD.

Sooo.... the conclusion is, at least in my opinion and attending to my personal taste for cartoons, that UA has to be the worst series.