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ICame2Play wrote: But... I liked Alien Force...

Haha I did enjoy reading Xanton's list though. And Blaziken does also have a point about people having a nostalgia filter.

I do question though, since its been said over nd over again that the main production crew of Ben 10 did not change in the transition from UA to OV, what happened to the writers that they suddenly went from horrific filler episodes in UA to the more interesting story arcs in OV?

(I consider season 6 of OV to also have bizarre filler, but with the Rooters arc being so dark they probably felt they had to balance things out) Thank you. :)

I'd say the transition you speaking of is actually one of the points I made. In Ultimate Alien they were overly concerned with making everything connect. They wanted to tell a story that was well rounded, had many ways to look at it and also lots of subplots. By this standard their want to make an interconnected story over came itself, making the stories so interconnected that they either failed, or did not have fulfilling endings, were to hard to follow every single subplot, some of which didn't even get wrapped up and overall just didn't accomplished what they wanted.

In Omniverse they learned from previous experiences. Instead of dragging on stories for long periods of time that would switch between villains they gave a set limit or ten episodes per arc. This gave you

1. Time to set up the arc

2. A main villain to focus on for it

3. A number of filler episodes guaranteed.

This is my theory, not factual by any means. Because in Ultimate Alien they were trying to write a story and constantly either changing it or not agreeing on it, or in general just trying to withhold it for whatever reason, there was a lot more filler to be spent through while they put the story together. In OV you have a set number of episodes, therefore you know that if the episodes not pertaining to that arc it's going to be filler.

Also in Omniverse filler, usually, focuses more on the characters and is more character lead whereas Ultimate Alien, not all the time, is event driven.

Alien Force was good at both but usually, possibly because of the jump from fun kid's show to darker angsty teen show, couldn't really adjust as well and so ended up with not as fulfilling stories.

That's my take on it anyway.