Ben 10 Ultimate Alien Ep19
Added 2025-07-11 22:57:17 +0000 UTCComments
If you actually pay attention to what's going on, it's not that much of a stretch to understand why ben feels responsible for what's happening and thinks he needs to just put down kevin and be done with it. It's not a poorly thought out "plot reason" or because the writers just said "yea we don't know how to escalate things from here, let's just make ben want to murder his best friend all of a sudden". I believe it was just not executed well and it leaves more questions than answers by being really vague about it all. Having Ben still joke around during the middle of this season long arc ruined any credibility to how serious he gets by the end From the beginning of the andromeda 5 arc, every single time Ben chooses to save someone instead of doing the hard thing and just put down Agregor (we all know he can easily), tragedy has followed. Every single time he's followed the "hero route" and plumber protocol, his efforts are made completely redundant because Agregor just bypassed them all. Arrest the andromeda fugitives to be taken to the plumbers for safekeeping? Intercepted by Agregor in a plumber ship. Stop Agregor or save a planet/Gwen/the guardian? Agregor escapes 3 separate times, each time with one more piece of the Map of Infinity. Is it at all surprising that now with Kevin insane and more powerful than Agregor ever was, that Ben is just done with being the bigger person and just wants the chaos to end? Every minute he wastes doing "the right thing", more and more people die/get hurt. Ben suddenly 180-ing is more because the dialogue and writing wasn't more intentional/gradual with the shift in Ben's character and doesn't really show his growing frustration as much as it should have. He let his ego take over and he started not treating his "job" as seriously as he should have, which allowed agregor to achieve what he wanted and forced kevin to go insane as a result. He blames himself as much as he does his villains, and he's "over-correcting" by deciding to kill kevin before he can cause even more casualties. The narrative concept and path for his character "change" is there, it just wasn't written as well as it should have been. Having Ben still joke during the middle of this arc ruined any credibility to how serious he gets by the end of the season. The writing and Cartoon Network's incessant need for Ben to joke around and be childish ruined what could have been a really really great arc, but that's just Ben 10 for you. Ben isn't Batman. He doesn't have some vow that prevents him from killing his enemies, even at the cost of the people around him. He's much more like Superman, where killing isn't what he wants to do, but will be the last resort if all else fails. Calling people retarded for understanding a narrative decision just because you can't see it is pretty narrow-minded. What ruins this entire arc is how it ends, but i'm not sure if you've gotten to that point yet so I won't spoil it for you.
ian
2025-07-16 11:00:25 +0000 UTCGreat, I was indirectly mentioned at the beginning))
Kalenval_
2025-07-13 13:07:09 +0000 UTC
