Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-11169242-20130907142333/@comment-24770490-20141009025833

Kennykeith wrote: These retcon ideas are not bad in and of themselves. They seem to be throwbacks to the mythology established in the original series and that is commendable. However, the writers are making the same mistake the previoius series all made, creating new material without tying it into previous continuity and if not, explaining away old continuity to make way for new ones. These retcons present alot of problems, basically blackhole type plotholes threatening to rip apart the very continuity of the series.

Kevin: Did he grow up in the Null Void? Doubt it cuz he wore the outfit of the original series in the flashback. This episode would explain how he got out of the void itself rather than just escaping a prison in the void. But seriously, Kwarrel, was he real? Did he really save kevin? Did kevin really meet argit in the void according to omniverse itself or according to this new retcon? Why did he go crazy absorbing energy if osmosians are not aliens? The memories of his father? Are they real? The pictures of his family? What are those? His vengeance against ragnarok, was it all an illusion?

Aggregor: Who really is this guy? If we are to believe the rooters, then he is a human but how does he know about the map of infinity? How to find it and the requirements of finding it when only paradox and the aliens guarding the map know about it? Where does his alien ship, tech and resources come from? We saw him absorb a species of galapagus, what was that? How does he know about the energy madness if there are different types of osmosians? Is he a rogue rooter? Roguer than these rogues? Is he also a brainwashed osmosian? An actual osmosian like alien? Or most importantly, is he even real now?

Devin and Max: What purpose did devin's illusion serve? Max never kept his promise to devin to take care of kevin. As partners, lots of times, max's life would ride on devin saving it and vice versa. How is Max not dead if devin is an illusion? Has devin never offered to drive their ship? Has max never suggested it? Why didn't ragnarok kill max if illusion devin never pulled a heroic sacrifice? Why is Max not in an asylum for speaking with nothingness? Is the ragnarok they fought real or an illusion?

Phil: Is he still nothing but the consciousness of the terroranchula? Was he ever used by kyber as a guinea pig? is his mind back? Or was he faking the whole time? When and how did he become a rooter? Is he still a parasite inhabiting the empty shell of a man or is he a rooter human with alien powers created by kevin like the core rooters now?

Plumber kids: retcon doesn't really harm their status but why were they released into the society with false memories when they could be hidden by the rooters until needed? They don't recognise kevin cuz they were mindwiped but what about their parents? Were  they real? Rooters? Aliens?

Ragnarok: Is he real? A genuine alien who fought a deluded old man and lost? Who somehow knew about the illusionary man's child ? Or a rooter used as continuity fodder by the other rooters to more realistically and convincingly mindrape max, kevin and us?

All these are blackhole type plotholes created by omniverses' attempt to create retcons without addressing the proir continuity. They can all be cleared up easy enough, i even have some ideas now but omniverse seems to care less about cleaning up previous continuities.

We still have two episodes to air... It seems like Ben 10 fans really do "hate" everything before they see it.