Shalom ladies and jellyfish, welcome back to A.S.K. Air’s videos! Today I am finally
back reviewing Ben 10, this time Ben 10: Alien Force, counting down the top 5 worst episodes
that came out of this amazing show. I’ve talked a lot about Alien Force in my many
other Ben 10 videos, but today I decided to delve deep into the lesser quality parts of
it and really give my opinions on those 5 worst episodes. No surprise here, these are
all season 3 episodes, because as we all know, that’s when the show got its dip in quality,
but no more spoilers, let’s get into it. Before we do though, I am planning to make
3 more of these videos at least, on the top 5 best of Alien Force as well as the top and
bottom 5 of Ultimate Alien, so be sure to like this video and share it, to show me if
I should consider spending the time to make those. With all that outta the way, lets-a-go!
#5: Singlehanded The first episode on this list is Singlehanded.
We start off with a Spiderman rehash- I mean Spidermonkey swinging through the city, being
chased by Tsundere, who wants the Omnitrix. Wait, Humongausaur has pupils? Tsundere slams
his axe down on Ben’s hand, which sends the rest of his body to the Null Void, while
his hand remains on Earth. A very clever and inevitable story in a show like this, but,
well, let’s just get into it. One of the big problems here, as well as on many other
episodes on this list is the inconsistency of the rules they establish. In a continuity
heavy and world building show like Ben 10, this becomes a big problem. Here, its about
Ben’s body affecting the movement of his hand, and they show enough clips of this to
truly show the inconsistency. In the beginning, when Ben punches a creature in the Null Void,
his hand on Earth curls into a fist and punches the ground, and moves relatively to Ben’s
movements. But Ben never gets thrown around the screen since his hand is in a flying ship.
Now, I get that that would’ve been hard to explain, but surely they could’ve done
better than this, or just not included this minor thing. The hand also has a brain of
its own, and is also animated like it can see, like in this shot when he looks back
at the dog. To be fair, the hand walking animation is really funny. A few minutes later, after
Julie has found Ben’s hand and taken it to Gwen and Kevin, and Tsundere has come to
take it back, Gwen and Kevin tell Julie that she should turn Ben’s hand to Humongausaur
and Swampfire to defend herself. Aside from those two aliens being super bad choices with
a solo hand, especially Humongausaur, there’s a much bigger problem. A few minutes before,
when Ben turned into Swampfire, he complained about not being able to shoot fire out of
his severed hand, and not being able to heal it with Swampfire’s powers. (clip) That’s
a good question, considering that when Ben gets turned into Diamondhead, he shoots diamonds
out of the severed hand, and later shoots electricity with Brainstorm. And by the way,
Diamondhead’s voice here is absolutely atrocious, and just sounds really messed up in my opinion.
Moving on, there are some funny jokes in this episode, like the “big ugly guy” or (clip),
which definitely carry this very weak episode, but the majority of it is not very good. The
fightscene between Ben’s body and Tsundere is good, but its completely ruined by the
annoyingly dragged out scene of Kevin trying to fix Ben’s hand, which is played off for
laughs here. Maybe a pity laugh. And they stop the bad guy and the end. Overall, not
a very good episode, and a very weak one among so many great episodes in this show. While
there are some funny scenes like Kevin laughing when he sees Ben’s hand, and being good
mindless entertainment for 22 minutes, this episode doesn’t really offer much more than
that. This plot was inevitable after creating a show about a kid with an alien device on
his wrist, but, they could’ve told this story a lot better than what they did here.
And oh yeah, double hatred to this episode for inspiring some weirdo to photoshop this
monstrosity and curse my Twitter timeline with it.
#4: Inferno This one is...special, to say the least. Its
probably the weirdest one here with exception to #1, but it also manages to have some really
big problems as well. We start the episode with an entire minute of slow, silent establishing
shots. They’re cool, but it seems like this was short on time so they had to add that
for no reason at all. It does so a good job adding suspense when it gets all loud, but
its still a very long intro. This continues well after the theme song, with us getting
30 seconds of Kevin making his car invisible to not get a speeding ticket. Like, is any
of this necessary? They could’ve just shown up to the crime scene in the start. Anyway,
we see some creatures down in a cliff, who look like cows who eat rocks and graze in
the rocklands. Ben runs into the herd and tries to transform...for what reason? Of course,
the Omnitrix doesn’t work, because comedy, and we get a quick fight scene. Max calls
them and tells them these creatures are called “Pyroxovores”, and that apparently, unicorns,
trolls and pixies are all real? Uh, what the frick? The gang go into a cave and eventually
meet a weird alien named Mouldywarp, who is a super bizarre character who has a huge stockpile
of explosives. I’m sorry, what the frick is this plot? And, of course, Vulkanus is
here, why wouldn’t he be? He explains how he bought the entire Earth and plans to throw
a bomb to the core of the Earth, to make the Earth as hot as his native world. But...then
why did he leave the cave later when Ben told him the lava would kill him too, if he’s
used to extreme heat? WE INTERRUPT THIS REVIEW TO BRING YOU BEN 10 FIGHTING CONSTRUCTION
CARS! Yes, seriously. Now, the real question is, how did the gang find out Vulkanus was
here the very hour he planned to drop the bomb? It’s almost like this plot is hanging
by a thread! We get some fight scenes between the gang and Mouldywarp, versus Vulkanus,
his minions, and the tractors, as the Omnitrix STILL doesn’t work here, until the very
moment Moldy contributes one of his few contributions to this plot. It’s almost as if the Omnitrix
working has become their only way of telling the plot. After Ben smashes Vulkanus--I mean
hits him, god someone’s probably making that fanfic as I speak, Vulkanus eventually
drops the bomb, and leaves with a rocket, leaving the gang to deal with the bomb. Ben
tries to turn to Humongausaur, even though the bomb would still explode if he caught
it, instead of turning to, I don’t know, Big Chill, Cannonbolt? Anyway, the Omnitrix
fails and gives him Jetray instead. *whispering* Hey guys, that’s a funny joke! Jetray sweeps
down to blow up the bomb before it hits the core, and he succeeds, before realizing he
might just be blown up too. By the way, these two screenshots are so amazing, and you’ll
be pleased to know I’ve already capitalized the crap out of this meme on Twitter! Ben
successfully gets to the top, but Mouldywarp has activated all of his dynamite, which makes
them frantically escape the cave, and because this is a Michael Bay episode now, we get
tons of boring and emotionless explosions! I will admit, the peaceful ending joke was
decent, but in general, this episode is a huge pile of Pyroxovores dukey. The plot hangs
on several threads, the characters are really strange, especially Mouldywarp, and even Ben,
the comedy is non-existent, and there’s lots of little plotholes that bring it down
for me. And like, this plot is just so strange! Speaking of bad plots--
#3: Primus Primus is a weird one. While a couple of the
episodes here could’ve not existed with not much difference in the continuity, this
episode was very important for establishing the planet of Primus and giving some more
lore to how the Omnitrix samples are collected. However, it’s not a very good one. Why?
(clip) We start the episode with a weird Vilgax thing, and I mean, what have they done to
this amazing character? (clip) Ghostfreak tells Vilgax to go to Primus to get the Omnitrix,
which is a planet containing the database of the Omnitrix samples. Ben and the gang
get transported to Primus, or as I like to call it, the Adobe After Effects mutant creature
of a planet. We get obnoxious season 3 Ben at his peak here with quotes like “who’s
the hero”, which really just makes me miss the caring and smart Ben from season 1 and
2. After a long walk of them getting to some mountain, we see Humongausaur, who is Azmuth,
fighting Vilgax. Vilgax beats Azmuth and takes the Omnitrix likes its no big deal, but hardy
har har, he doesn’t know how to use it. Are you kidding me? Vilgax, the guy who has
been chasing down the watch since fricking George Washington was alive, doesn’t know
how to use it? (clipi) Ben literally learned how to use it in 10 seconds when he was 10
years old. This is literally what the plot hangs on, and its really hard to watch a character
who used to be so epic and powerful, be turned into this goofy villain who doesn’t know
anything. I also love how uncaring Azmuth is about the Omnitrix being gone, especially
when talking to Ben, but they expect us to get super emotional when Vilgax says “Ben,
you must die”, or when Gwen screams or whatever. Ben makes a deal with Vilgax and teaches him
how to hold a button while using the Omnitrix, something a 200 year old supervillain couldn’t
figure out, and tricks him into turning to Goop and losing. And come on, there’s no
way its that easy to rip off the Omnitrix off Goop’s body like that. And yeah, we
get more obnoxious Ben antics, and then he kicks Vilgax into space for the 18th time.
This episode really sucks, but what’s worse? (clip)
#2: Busy Box #2 is Busy Box. #2 is Busy Box. Haha, see
what I did there? This episode is a special type of terrible. Its literally so bad, that
I wanna dig into it and review it minute by minute. Starting off the episode, the animation
is extremely lazy and the shadows on the characters faces look really weird. Like, is that just
me that thinks that? The gang notice a level 20 technology near them and go to check it
out, where its revealed the device is even unknown to Kevin, even though he’s an expert.
Yeah, its later revealed this is a childs toy, so how come Kevin doesn’t know about
something like that? I will admit, where this episode shines is the comedy, with a handful
of funny one-liners, such as the oxymoron clip, which I’ve always quoted and used
myself since I was a kid. The box opens up and turns into Ben, imitating his moves and
repeating what he says. Probably my biggest problem with this episode is that the robot
picks and chooses what it says for suspense and the plot, which gets a bit more obnoxious
later, but is perfectly emphasized here, where he ignores everything Ben says and only says
“Run away”, even though Ben also moved his body multiple times, and this is supposed
to be a very high tech thing. Also, this episode gets weirdly creepy with the animation, especially
with Humongausaur and Spidermonkey, but especially Humongausaur, where when the robot gets hurt,
he makes really painful facial expressions, even though it never felt emotion before that.
It also doesn’t copy everything, like this clip of it throwing the dumpster, even though
Ben never did that. It’s really bizarre. And haha, he breaks Kevin’s car! COMEDY
GOLD! Again, the main problems here are the little things, like how the robot’s Spidermonkey
webbing is sticky, while Gwen’s mana is plastic discs? After the gang realize what
seasons 1 and 2 Ben would’ve figured out an hour ago, they act more calm to not set
it off. Right away, the very loud and intrusive Vreedle ship lands beside them. Looks like
the writers went to Butch Hartman’s school! And yeah, we get some more funny lines, like
“Not that our business is any of your...business”, and oh yum, more inconsistent writing! The
bot turns into Swampfire to copy Ben, even though it was looking straight at the Vreedles
for several minutes and didn’t turn into them, and when he finally turns into a Vreedle,
he shoots plastic red balls, because, I don’t know. THEY EVEN POINT OUT THIS MALFUNCTION
IN THE EPISODE! Keep in mind this bot is supposed to be as sophisticated as the fricking Omnitrix.
The Vreedles snatch the robot and take it away, because Gwen’s aim sucks, and they
get a chance to fly their ship away, because it was really hard for Gwen to just make a
shield around the bot or something before they left. After all that, the gang chills
at Mr Smoothy’s, talking about their failures, when the Vreedles come back with an absolute
mess of the robot, with Humongausaur body, laserbeam hands, and terrible dialogue to
boot! And, THEY DESTROYED MR SMOOTHY FOR THIS GARBAGE EPISODE? No, no, no, no. This will
not get away that easily. The Vreedles make a run for it, but Humongausaur just literally
blows up their ship and we glimpse past that like its no big deal. They don’t even mention
the Vreedles again at the end, like how they did with Vilgax in the finale or anything,
they just completely don’t care that these guys are blown up in front of us. Of course,
they come back in the next episode, but still! And again, the bot picks and chooses what
it wants to say like, “it’s your problem now” or “attack”, which was probably
the most obnoxious display of that in the episode. The funny part is, the bot just stands
there silently while they talk, its completely irrelevant. But right when Gwen says attack
mid-sentence, the bot is yeeted back into the plot. Then Ben turns into a wrong alien
because, hahaha! That’s humor! Now look, I get it, Ben needs to get the wrong alien
so he can use it, but Ben is just stupid here. He picks Humongausaur to fight the thing when
he got his butt kicked as Humongausaur and that was before the bot went all rogue. Season
2 Ben would’ve just turned into Lodestar from the getgo, I don’t know why we need
this pointless joke in the episode anyway? Also, I love how the bot has sharp teeth now,
as if we didn’t think he was creepy already. And after they finally beat it, some alien
mother who we’ve never heard from and will never hear from again comes and says its her
daughter’s toy and it fell out of her carriage. Aside from the question being that the alien
knows “26 dimensions'' or whatever, why would their species still have toys, or carriages,
or any of that? This is so weird and forced in here! Who wrote this solution? Whoever
the crew was that worked on this episode, it has some serious problems. The plot is
inconsistent, the rules they establish are broken again and again, and some scenes just
don’t make sense and are really bizarre. But what could be worse?
#1: Fool’s Gold Here it is. The worst episode of Alien Force.
And while I’ve heard a lot of people say its not THAT bad, this is all my reasoning
as to why I hate this episode the most! So if you’re ever going through the same thing,
you can send your friends this video. While Busy Box has a lot more minor mistakes than
this, the premise alone here is bizarre enough to justify being on this list. It’s about
the gang searching for an alien who’s gone missing, after their species comes to a particular
town to eat popcorn every 17 years. Their species also poops gold when they eat popcorn,
which makes the mayor of the town want to keep one for himself, and when the alien can’t
eat a lot, the mayor gives him meat as a change of appetite. Which brings me to the question
of...why meat, of all things? And I love how they treat the mayor as no big deal in the
beginning even though to anyone with a hint of a brain its obvious he’s gonna be the
villain! Also, why does the mayor need to keep the gold-maker anyway? Gwen says herself
that the town is super rich because of all the gold, so can’t the mayor just pocket
some gold for himself? Anyway, the plot goes awry when Dekka, the missing alien, turns
into a wild creature and rampages the town, after eating the meat, which is poisonous
for their kind. This exposition is given through the most unreliable narrator of all time,
Orb, Dekka’s friend, who’s voice is also really annoying in this episode. He explains
that while meat makes them into their primal form and makes them reproduce, things like
silicon and...chicken nuggets?... are poisonous and make them feel nauseous. This is even
backed up in the Ben 10 wikia, until you realize that Ben turning into Echo Echo and making
Dekka eat him, since he’s silicon, something that was also treated like a genius writing
move in the episode, doesn’t make Dekka feel nauseous for long, rather reverting him
to his normal form. So...how does that make sense? And I just hate some little stupid
lines they throw in like the chicken nuggets thing, or how Orb says Mars used to be a thriving
planet or something before they went there, it’s all really bizarre. And while I don’t
care if a show like SpongeBob broke one of their rules, Ben 10 is a very continuity heavy
show, and they set a lot of ground rules and scientific stuff in the episodes. Which is
why episodes like this or Busy Box completely break their own rules and make me hate them.
And by the way, thanks for showing us the full clip of Dekka throwing up Echo Echo’s
disgustingly. Overall, aside from a few one-liners with Kevin and a couple funny things, this
episode is really bizarre and doesn’t belong anywhere near this show. Seriously, if they
removed it from the list it would make no legitimate change in the story. And oh yeah,
something else to mention is that really awkward and shoehorned-in subplot about Kevin and
his locket, like, why was that written so weirdly?
Anyway, that’s my list of the top 5 worst Ben 10 Alien Force episodes! Be sure to tell
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