Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4798440-20130327051611/@comment-1200981-20130719025656

That's more or less how I feel. My issue with Omniverse is that it took away the sophisticated writing from the first three seasons that appealed to all ages and downgraded the series to elementary school entertainment. Sure, it brought back the humor of the original series, but it also lacks the drama, the character development, the intriguing plots and awesome villains that made Ben 10 so fun to watch.

Personally, what truly bothers me is Ben's characterization. I don't know about anyone else, but Ben's attitude as a kid tended to rub me the wrong way because of his arrogant behavior. Sure, he was a kid so he's not really expected to be mature but god, if it couldn't be grating at times. When Alien Force came out, he proved that he could be mature while still maintaining his characteristic cockiness, charisma and humor without being excessively obnoxious about it. And I can't believe some of you actually dislike Alien Force when it was what solidified Ben's career as a great hero. You're all entitled to your opinion, but to me, Alien Force was one of the best Ben 10 seasons. Ultimate Alien, Otoh, was a bit more controversial. The first half was great, but when the Diagon Arc was introduced, it started to become bland. In addition, it was like the writers couldn't decide whether to maintain Ben's new persona and have him act like a bratty 10 year old again. There was no real equilibrium there and I feel that consequent episodes suffered from that since Ben became less appealing of a character (well except for when he was willing to sacrifice himself for the sake of the Ultimates, which was a terrific Ben 10 moment in my opinion). So yeah, the season finale UA was bad, but the first half of it was pretty cool.

As for Omniverse, it has its good moments and its bad. Personally, I miss the old designs of the aliens been had back in AF and UA. While some of the new aliens look impressive (like Feedback and Gravattack), the original aliens look too cutesy(especially Alien X). Plus, as I've said, the storylines lack the intelligence that we've seen in the previous Ben 10 series. Sadly, this style has also transferred over to the Ultimate Spiderman series, which is also worked on by Man of Action(and is regarded as one of the worst animated adaptations of Spiderman ever created due to Peter acting more like Deadpool or Ben, than how he's been portrayed in the comics or previous shows). It just bothers me how a show that was of Justice League-level quality when it came to storytelling has been reduced to this.

I'm sticking with because I hope that a serious plot is in the works for the second half of the series.