Alright! Y’all absolutely love this series, so let’s get into Ben 10! Hot takes! Part 3!
Hot Take: There should have been more episodes of aliens doing their own thing either intentionally
or by instinct like Ghostfreak and Big Chill. Totally with this one myself! Save the Last
Dance is one of my favorite Alien Force episodes for this reason among many others,
and it would’ve been cool to see aliens like Rath or Goop escape or do their own thing.
Also a big reason why I like Vengeance of Vilgax!
Hot Take: The Rooters arc is good. Aside from the retcon, it is a very well-written story,
the darkest plotline of Omniverse, and is very much a story tied to the characters while still
maintaining the feel of the series. People just need to give it a chance. Also, about the retcon:
I prefer Kevin as a mutant instead of an alien because it's more interesting. But
I think OV's retcon was unnecessary because retconning a retcon just caused more mess.
It is one of the three retcons that makes no sense anyway. (The others are Plumbers
retcon in AF and that garbage planet named Primus) Well, I agree that the Rooters arc was inherently
decent. I’m not a fan of Servantis and I find his voice and look a bit annoying and generic,
but his fight with Ben and the way Servantis takes Kevin into his grasp was pretty well told. I never
personally knew about the retcon growing up because I missed the Ultimate Alien episode
with Ragnarok or whatever he was called, so I never knew Kevin’s backstory was so messed up.
Atomix was underused for such a powerful alien he should’ve been in the show at least a couple
times even though he was only in 3 episodes Atomix was a shoehorned alien that was trying
to be cool, while having zero of the charm of Alien X or any other powerhouse alien.
It was kinda adorable how they tried to make the Atomic-X fusion for Ben 10,000,
as if Atomix was anywhere near as cool as Alien X. Sorry not sorry.
Gwen was constantly and illogically nerfed throughout the entire series
because she's as strong as Ben, if not stronger, and they didn't want her to
outshine Ben. We got to see her cook an entire army of DNAliens on her own
but a couple of episodes later she somehow can't fight a bunch of forever knights on her own
This is absolutely true. When the creators made Gwen an Anodite, one of the stupidest decisions
ever by the way, that meant that Gwen could be more powerful than Ben. Morningstar even
said this in an episode once. But then in one episode she can’t handle a welding gun being
thrown at her. I guess it’s hard to make Ben the most powerful while also maintaining a powerful
set of secondary characters, but still, Gwen was way too inconsistent throughout the series.
Hot Take: Alien Force was far too quick to establish the status quo of
its group dynamic. Stuff like adding kevin to the team as a good guy and the blooming
relationship between gwen and kevin needed a longer stretch of time to be believable.
I don’t really see this one. While it was admittedly pretty quick how Kevin became
part of the team, you also have to remember that it didn’t become status quo until basically the
second season. In Kevin’s Big Score, we had an episode where Kevin basically betrayed the team,
and they almost split up from there. In All That Glitters,
Ben and Kevin disagreed on adding Morningstar to the team. In Pier Pressure, they begin to
joke around more with each other and mess with each other. In What Are Little Girls Made Of,
Gwen kisses Kevin. And later, it’s revealed that he became part of the team because he wanted to
become a Plummer like his Dad was. So this idea that Kevin was immediately added to the team
is not only untrue, it’s actually the complete opposite. The writers edged him into the trust
of the audience very carefully and it’s one of the reasons why Alien Force seasons 1 is legendary.
I'm not sure if this is a hot take or not; Season three AF Ben wasn't that bad. It made
sense that after defeating The Highbreed and getting all these awards from all different
species is bound to give anybody an ego trip and I think people were overreacting a little.
I actually agree, contrary to what my videos might imply. While I stand by
the fact that season 3 made Ben a bit TOO cocky, just to get more ratings because
kids like a childish Ben more. I just feel like Ultimate Alien Ben’s cockiness was
justified because of his achievements. It wasn’t too much and it wasn’t too little.
But AF season 3 is just a brat, and I think that’s different from an ego trip.
Hot Take: Fasttrack is actually good. I understand that he is basically useless since Ben has faster
aliens but that doesn’t mean he’s bad. His design is simple, but cool. His humanoid
body makes his running scenes look superb since I love seeing speedsters like Quicksilver and
the Flash running. And his voice fits his design. I don’t think he deserves the hate.
But you’re missing a fundamental aspect of Fasttrack. He’s a complete ripoff of XLR8.
Hot Take: I really like it when aliens have non-humanoid designs (eg. Stinkfly, Wildmutt,
Brainstorm, etc) I think it adds a bunch of cool variety to the show.
Me too. Looking at the classic art for the show in pre-production, most aliens were literal humanoid
aliens, so I’m glad they did more animals and non-humanoid designs later on. Good take!
hot take: omniverse is the best show. Ben's not too egotistical and too mature.and
the animation is way better. I like the art style a lot
I agree with all that. But it’s certainly not the best.
Here’s a long one! Imma give a practical take.
Vengeance of vilgax was good until diamondhead came out. People say the diamondhead moment was
great or that it was the best moment of season 3 but that moment was what ruined the entire af,
and in turn ultimate alien for most people. Vilgax getting beaten by fucking diamondhead
was atrocious. It also makes no sense of how earlier vilgax was in a completely different
league from fully grown up bounty hunter tetrax, while the 10-alien powered vilgax got beat by
a adolescent diamondhead. I still don't get it, why didn't they went with waybig defeating vilgax
again. We haven't really seen waybig "fight" upto that point, just him destroying stuff.
Vilgax is supposed to be a way powerful being at that moment, darksied's avatar level strong.
Vilgax has issues of how Ben throwing him into space was cheating. Now both of them at their
prime, and waybig infact defeating him after a huge fight, blood and bruises and all, he finally
accepts ben as his true rival and also helps give the audience closure of Ben properly defeating him
with his most powerful alien, not throwing him into space or erasing him or something. That
would in turn make the series much better by making vilgax an actual threat for some time.
Well, you lost me towards the end, but I personally love Diamondhead kicking the crap
out of Vilgax. It felt much more rewarding then just Way Big stepping on him, I mean we literally
saw Way Big throw him into space in the movie right before this show! The reason that Way Big
didn’t fight Vilgax would be because that would be incredibly predictable in the plot of the episode!
He wanted to turn into Way Big, and that wouldn’t have had any significant character development on
Ben. But he turned into Chromastone and got the crap beat out of him by Vilgax, almost dying
completely. This taught him to not underestimate Vilgax, and not be so arrogant. Another reason
I hate Ben’s characterization in season 3 is because it could’ve been wrapped up after he
defeated Vilgax. His arc would’ve finished and his ego deflated. Anyway, Chromastone’s
death also led to the epic moment when Ben comes back and turns into Diamondhead, a fan favorite,
for the first time in Alien Force. And the reason he was able to beat Vilgax when Tetrax couldn’t,
is because, come on, Ben has had tons of experience with Diamondhead since he was 10!
Also, who the frick cares? It’s an epic fight scene, that’s really all it boils down to.
I appreciate this complicated take, but I have to respectfully disagree wholeheartedly.
Someone doing Ben 10 content in 2021 other than Inktank,
a blessing from the lord Love ya bro!
Now that we did the major ones, let’s introduce the lightning round!
LIGHTNING ROUND TITLE CARD~
#1 After rewatching the series and finishing the rewatch a few weeks ago,
I think the young ben episodes in Omniverse were some of the best in the whole Omniverse series
Yeah, not really for me. #2- I really wish they made a continuation of
the series with Ben, Gwen and Kevin exploring the galaxy like they hinted at the end of Omniverse
Me too. #3 I think
the time travel and whole time war arc was the best arc in Omniverse.
Same. #4 in the reboot series, I think Yuri
Lowenthal voicing Vilgax was pure genius Agree.
1. Gwen's, and Charmcaster's magic is better in OV, and classic than
in Alien force, and Ultimate Alien Uhh no, Ledgerdomain was prevalent in UA.
2. Echo echo's wall of sound is one of the best moves Ben has ever done with his aliens
Yup. 3. The omnitrix is secretly a troll in disguise
The Omnitrix is a meme. 4. Goop is a really cool
alien Yup.
The ultimate alien concept was mostly worthless as most ultimate aliens (canonbolt, waybig,
grey matter) just looked like shit and didn’t add any cool features thus I feel like it was
a shallow marketing gimmick to try and make ultimate alien stand out from alien force
Totally agree. Four arms and stink flys designs
after classic just got worse and worse Yup.
Upgrades color scheme was better in the reboot Nope.
Omniverse’s new aliens are overhated and a fair amount of them are pretty good/alright
but get lumped in with the shitty ones Uhh, no. Only Gravvattack and Feedback are decent.
Ben 10 Alien force is the best series, Seasons 1 and 2, yes.
it had the best alien lineup, Yep.
the highbreed were the best villains and they had interesting premise,
Yup. It introduced tons of good characters,
Sure! the only bad thing about it is
the lackluster third season, Of course.
also I like the alien force intro more than the original
series intro . Me too!
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