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Omniverse, without a doubt.

Art style - Nearly every (re)design proves to be a messy mess of lines and colors. Any other style could bring a lot more life to this show/franchise (whether it's aimed at kids or not). Realism doesn't make a show less appealing, and while more fitting than UAF's for the goal of fostering kids' interests, certainly any professional with a more decent style that could be woven into a more colorful youth-directed one could have sufficed. When any amateur with even just a mouse can recreate your style -- and beat it with similar effort -- there's a large problem.

Maybe Alien Force and Ultimate Alien were "bland and boring" or had low contrast around darker colors, but at least they appeared realistic and professional.

Plot - Inconsistent, normally revolving around clichés (and whether Ben points them out or not doesn't change the fact that they're cliché, it just makes the writers look lazier), intent without brakes or remorse on retconning anything and everything from all three previous series. Whatever threat is being faced, there's always an obvious solution and never a true sense of conflict; just a rampant trail of random action sequences. The show's also riddled with convenience (take Rook's Proto-Tool having a new use for every situation except for the ones where it keeps the episode going longer).

Filler episodes are appalling messes that I wouldn't let my waste come near. The likes of Oh Mother Where Art Thou and Food Around the Corner were painful enough that the former I've never actually seen in full due to having to stop around 5 minutes in (on two attempts); and the latter took a second try to fully watch as well. Oftentimes (if not, every time), premises are also fairly promising and while a majority of an episode can deliver fairly decently, Omniverse fails completely at endings. Not once has there been a satisfactory, memorable, or at all decent ending.

If you need an example, please use the (infamous) Showdown: Part 2 as my recommendation. You can really just use any episode for any number of these.

Aliens - Ben's aliens range from a humanoid alien chicken which has the great ability to...kick, to a small assortment of just-about useless aliens (whether intentionally -- like the Outbreak trio -- or not -- like Bloxx, who's either a Cannonbolt replacement or a useless wall in most cases, but regardless has to be a shameless copy of that fan creation from years back).

Personality/Characters - I feel I just have to bring this up. There really is nothing good to this show in this category. Either you have an existing character bearing its horribly executed recreated personality down on you -- such as Ben (who I'll get to in a sec) -- or you have a hideous monstrosity -- inside and out -- to deal with it. Mr. Baumann is a complete turnaround that makes no sense with Ultimate Alien's The Purge; Kevin's lost the omnipresent criminal portrayal of old; Gwen is...*sigh*; Psyphon is suddenly a completely incompetent villain in spite of a certain episode last series, but what's new when every villain is this series? Vilgax has been absent for yet-revealed reasons (and his holographic appearance last season will probably make no sense even when he does return); Khyber, like Malware, Psychobos, completely fails at doing his very simple job. How can you in any world be considered the greatest huntsman when you're too busy prattling on about your plans?

And Albedo? Absorbing the knowledge to make him the smartest being in who-knows-how-many galaxies and you're still defeated by a 16-year-old human? It's not like he was secretly still an idiot either; we saw him use his abilities to previse events, he just didn't use them. This can really just end up me babbling about how every character has either been forced to deviate from their origins or have been given bad ones to begin with, but considering all this, you should be able to look at the show and see all the flaws yourself now.

If you see no flaws or disagree with the facts I've presented (and I will admit, some of this is opinion-based, though much of it, at the core, is objective), I'm sorry to admit; you're probably a fanboy, because these are, for the most part, facts (at least after the first section).

There's one more thing I wanted to speak about earlier but honestly I'm beat and have forgotten anyway. To each their own, but don't be blind to the truth.