Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26200221-20160223142644/@comment-24152851-20160303004042

Two wrongs don't make a right.

Retconning is generally bad in any shape or form. I understand quite a few people didn't like the direction AF went in, but completely erasing the validity of it the way they did so, isn't any better and is just plain lazy.

Furthermore, the OV retcons were much more extreme than AF. With AF they never firmly established facts and only changed the implications. In OS it was loosely suggested that Kevin had unexplained mutations, but AF gave a more solid answer. However what OV went and did was "this thing happened on screen, now we're ignoring it and changing it."

The biggest crime of the Rooters arc was what they did with Kevin's father. Ignoring Kevin being an alien, Kevin turning good, all those complaints about Kevin changes. You cannot tell me making Kevin's father non existent is a good change. How was Kevin born if his father never existed?

As for the plumbers kids. My issue with that was involving several characters, who had no past connections with Ben and co, and then all of a sudden they magically knew each other before they "first met". They want to explain amalgam kids and whatever, fine, but make new characters for it rather than randomly shoving existing characters somewhere into the timeline where they don't belong.

I just got very little satisfaction from watching it. Didn't get the solid plot arcs I was used to, and a lot of them felt like Ben 10 comedic skit shorts, like it was a parody of the actual Ben 10 series.