Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26200221-20151211162449/@comment-24152851-20160216052802

Can I ask, just how do you know that the VAs did or didn't meet the writer's expectations? For all we know, that was exactly what the writers wanted.

I'm pretty sure that's because those people preferred 10 year old Ben over 15 year old Ben, not because they prefer Tara over Yuri. And that's once again because each of the VAs were told to voice the characters that way. If the writers told Tara too voice Ben all serious and stoic, like she did with Raven, does that make Tara a bad VA? No. She's just following instructions. She voiced Ben all cocky and arrogant because they wanted her to. Exactly, you said Yuri got better with each sequel, because they told him to play Ben differently. Hence we got that horrid idiotic, immature 16 yr old Ben in Omniverse to pander to the OS Ben 10 fans.

I really don't think Tara is suitable for a 15-16 year old Ben, it just wouldn't work. I've seen her try to do a deeper teenaged voice for Timmy Turner, and it just sounded unconvincing. Yes, Tara is brilliant, but your expectations of her are a little too high.