Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5808856-20141104173641/@comment-25413835-20141112230903

Brandon Storm9 wrote: Alright then bad idea.

Ben is too over-powered now. The Omnitrix, with it's ability to allow Ben to assume the form and abilities of 60 different aliens makes him plenty strong, while the equal chance that it'll give him something completely inappropriate for the situation creates a balance of strong and weak and thus a good formula for a plot.

Introduce Skurd and now whenever Ben mis-transforms he can now get the abilities of the aliens that he intended to get and combine them with the alien that he has.

Bad execution.

Skurd is not an endearing character. Yes he adds humor, but he does not care in the lease about his partners. He treats them as a weapon and disposes of them as he will, at one point in time the moment a better deal came in, Ben, he not only abandoned his current partner, Khyber, but also tried to turn him into a brain dead drooling monkey. He's basically a psychopath, and they rarely makes for good protagonists. Like I said before, people were complaining that Ben was too weak. Now their complaining hes too overpowered. The reason he was made weaker in OV was because people were saying he was too strong in UAF. Some people are never satisfied. And he isn't even overpowered now. He only has access to SOME aliens abilities through skurd, not to mention skurd has to make the weapon. Ben can't control that. As we have seen in these last few episodes, Ben still has trouble with the bad guys. Remember how long it took him to take out Yetta?

And Skurds personality has nothing to do with the execution of his concept, which is to provide bens aliens with alien based weapons. So what if hes selfish, thats not the point of him being there. Hes not supposed to be a protagnoist, hes supposed to be a gimmick with comedic relief, and he does a good job at that. So thats a great execution. And if he does ditch Ben, then that would make a good episode, which is a good thing.