Alright alright…it’s been a while.
I wanna get into some more Ben 10 hot takes!
Part 5!
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Hot take: The best omnitrix is the one in omniverse, it just looks so cool and the fact
that the faceplate opens up to the side is so interesting since it's always just a dial.
Nah, Alien Force takes the cake for me personally.
The Omniverse one sounds nice and feels more slick but they couldn’t make a single toy
out of it that looked good, so yeah, Alien Force’s slick sexy design is my favorite
personally.
Hot Take 1: Ben's relationship with Ester was the best despite not being great.
I really liked how consistent their relationship was and I hated when they got rid of her for
Kai, as she just liked Ben as Blitzwolfer and Ester literally says she likes Ben in
his human form the most.
I totally agree.
Between Julie, Alana, Eunice, Kai and Ester, I definitely enjoy his chemistry with Ester
the most.
They just seem cuter together and Kai was really flanderized in Omniverse to the point
of being really irritating.
Hot Take 2: I really like how they handled The Vilgax Arc in Season 1 of Classic and
The Khyber Arc in Season 1 of Omniverse.
With almost every episode in the season having something to do with Khyber or Vilgax and
still having their own story, unlike other arcs like the Ghostfreak arc which had to
make every episode go out of its way to be a piece of the arc without having a good story.
The Vilgax arc in season 1 is amazing, as I touched on in my Vilgax video, and while
I’m not the BIGGEST Khyber fan, his introduction was one of his best aspects in my eyes.
I agree though that the season arcs to establish a character really work well in Ben 10.
We also saw this with the Highbreed and Aggregor.
Hot take: Water Hazard is an underrated alien and could've been used way more, and he had
a really cool design in Omniverse (My favorite design tbh)
Water Hazard’s cool.
I mean, his name is abysmal, and out of the Andromeda aliens, I can’t say he’s my
favorite, but I enjoyed his design and his voice in Omniverse sounded much better.
Sooo I recently started rewatching Ultimate Alien and I came up with a huge hot take...
Season 2 and 3 of UA feel super inconsistent, from every one masterpiece we'll get like
6 boring (not bad tho) episodes, and the fight scenes in the last season didn't had too much
happening (Like that Ultimate Way Big Battle, or Ultimate Wildmutt vs the Chameleon alien)...
Its like the other seasons were rushed and only S1 had time to develop an entertaining
plot and the rest had limited time to create good eps in my opinion
I totally agree.
After Absolute Power, they ditched long character arcs for the most part aside from Dagon, and
did mostly one-off episodes with not a lot of weight.
I also agree that the fight scenes were a lot more rushed and bland, although the Wildmutt
fight, in particular, succeeds because it manages to stay emotionally engaging despite
lasting only a few seconds.
The Ultimate Waybig one though, and especially the Vilgax fight…yeah, no.
Hot take: I think Alone together would have been a much better season 2 opener than the
darkstar episode we got I totally agree.
I mean, there’s certain things a season premiere needs to touch on which Darkstar
Rising does, but generally Alone Together may be the best episode of the show and it
would’ve definitely been a fantastic premiere.
Hot take 1: Vilgax turning into a big squid is stupid
Yep.
Hot take 2: Nearly all of Omniverse's designs are superior to the UAF versions except Gwen
and Kevin Video on this coming up!
Hot take 3: I don't like the Omnitrix looking like a normal wristwatch.
I like it being more alien, and looking like it's well and truly attached to ben.
I agree.
This is the one part of the OS Omnitrix I enjoyed the most.
Ripping it off has to feel painful, or else I’m not invested that much in a simple watch
that he removes and throws around.
hot take 2: the weird voices for aliens in the OG were the best.
the voices for ripjaws, cannonbolt, fourarms, greymatter, XLR8, diamondhead and wildvine
in OV were disappointing.
I think almost all the OG voices were amazing, not gonna lie.
hot take 3: the UAF fourarms design is actually good.
seeing as ben is a massive sumo slammers fan, having one of his most used aliens look kinda
like a sumo wrestler/warrior makes sense.
I don’t know what Sumo Slammers has to do with the alien’s design…it’s not like
Ben customized them in his Wii console or something…but Four Arms’ design has had
a bunch of funny changes, from the weird ponytail, to the moustache he gets in Omniverse.
Alien X really doesnt appear enough for how complex and powerful he truly is, and honestly
after Ben essentially getting full control of him towards the end of Omniverse, it feels
so off that he only has one more appearance in the entire show after that.
Like...you literally after the ability to manipulate time and space why are you using
anything else?
I delved deep into Alien X in my Alien X video, but all I’ll say is that I think Omniverse
did a fantastic job with Alien X and the number of appearances for him, and there’s not
much I would’ve changed.
We see him finally manipulate time and space, we see him fly around and do some hand-to-hand
combat, and we finally see him use the master control to kick butt with no hinderances.
Seems like a nice balance to me!
HOT TAKE: ‘Simple’ from AF was a good episode
I have some mixed thoughts on this.
As far as being an entertaining enough 22-minute ride with some cool aliens and an interesting
premise, it does a good job.
The main thing you can take away from it is that Ben doesn’t always succeed, and sticking
his nose in the foreign affairs of another planet’s war with no knowledge won’t always
end with a happy ending.
Buuuut, obviously there are some parts to it which can be idiotic or infuriating, which
is why a lot of people, me included, find it to be stale and ridiculous.
HOT TAKE: Rath is the best alien as well as the funniest alien and all the shows.
Not to mention while what I might say next would be a bit much, it would be funny if
Rath got so anger to the point he transformed into Ultimate Rath without actually touching
the omnitrix like ben can do when transforming into aliens via master control.
I know I’ve plugged like 100 videos, but I literally also made a video on Rath and
why he’s legendary, and you’re right, if he could turn Ultimate just by being angry,
Hulk style, that would be pretty hilarious.
Hot take: Simian surviving the acid in his ear without any deafness or scars was the
biggest retcon ever I never actually thought about this, but you’re
right!
That would’ve been a great opportunity to remind Ben of how he trolled Simian to the
max when they meet up after.
Just everything they did with Simian after his premiere episode doesn’t sit right with
me.
Hot Take: The main problem with Bens Aliens is they all use an excessive amount of green
Absolutely.
I mean, it definitely made them a lot more uniform and unique to the show, but I agree,
Alien Force used green way too goddamn much!
1.
Dr Amino was at his best as D'void mostly because he was such a monumental threat in
that episode Nah, D’Void ruined Animo’s playful persona
that he had prior.
After the Void episode he sorta goes back to that, but I didn’t enjoy the whole King
of the Null Void schtick they wanted to go with.
2.
Byvalven is the best of the Andromeda 5 partially because he was voiced by D Bradley Baker the
same guy behind the clones in clone wars and bad batch
Well, to be fair, Dee Bradley Baker voiced the majority of the aliens in Ultimate Alien
Force, so that doesn’t really mean much.
I mean, legitimately every single other Andromeda alien was voiced by Baker at one point, so…yeah.
Also, no.
NRG is the coolest. 3.
I like Atomix mostly because of the NRG and him being subspecies theory and I think he
has a funny voice Sure, let’s go with that.
His voice is kinda annoying though.
4.
Gutrot was greatly underutilized and I personally would like to see more of him
The fart alien?
I feel like if he was introduced in Ultimate Alien Force I would’ve taken him a lot more
seriously and maybe he could’ve been one of the coolest.
But the way he was handled in Omniverse felt so childish and cliche.
5.
It's a shame we didn't get a crossover between Omniverse and Transformers animated as both
were kinda similar especially with the art style (rest in peace Derrick J Wyatt)
I agree.
Although, I’m pretty sure there were some easter eggs to that show in Omniverse somewhere.
6.
We should have seen more of the highbreed after alien force especially reiny he was
amazing Well, that was one of the few redeeming qualities
of that If All Else Fails episode with the walking tree or whatever, but yeah, Reiny
is one of the great characters out of Alien Force.
Hot take 1: Spitter and Buzzshock need more screen time
Hot take 2: Julie should've been with Ben instead of Kai
Both of these are objectively wrong.
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