[EPISODE REACTIONS WITH TONBERRY] EPISODE 16: THE FORGE OF CREATION
Co-mod the_tonberry here. I've agreed to fill in for tonks17 on episode reactions. Might even become my new thing, yo. It’s gonna be totally awesome. I decided that the best episode to start with would be the mysterious Ultimate Alien episode 16, "The One Where Little!Ben Comes Back and Fangirls Squee In Delight."
What do you mean "That's not the title, stop being a moron"? Anyway, I missed the episode last night, but got it from the ever delightful gravitiger. So, snaps for you, bb. <3
Don’t expect me to stay on track with this. Like, at all. Regular text is my initial reaction, small text will be my post-episode reaction. I just burned a bag of popcorn SO AWAY WE GOOOOOO!
Failed? Aw. Poor Beeeen. But Azmuth’s gesticulations amuse me.
Oh snap, yo. Is that a past plothole coming back to say “hi?” I like how the whole safety feature there was never mentioned before. Total asspull, and Gwen and Kevin didn’t even fight him for it. Aaaaaand how did that work when Albedo had the Ultimatrix first?
“Transformation 10” my ass. There’s like, a fuckton of transformations, okay. Don’t start numbering them.
Because I said I would say it: I still hate this opening. It’s like a prison line-up on Star Trek, and the music doesn’t get me pumped at all.
pie is delicious
YAAAAAY I LOVE THE FLOATING FACES! 8D I want Serena and Bellicus to adopt me. Gosh I love that grumpy bastard. “Motion to ignore him for 1000 years at which point we set him on fire for a second 1000 years.” SOUNDS REASONABLE, DUDE.
PARADOX!!!! 8D AKML there is popcorn everywhere. Damn my giddy flailing.
“Timewalker”? I like it.
Paradox and Azmuth must have had a lovers’ quarrel at some point. over who ate the last slice of pie.
“Shh, no spoilers.” FUCKING ladynyoko, YOU WERE STILL SPAZZING TO ME BEFORE I’D WATCHED IT. B|
ARMFLAILING.
I think I totally ship Azmuth/Paradox now. They bicker like an old married couple.
Celestial Sapien. That's the dumbest fucking...You know what, I give up. At least Alien X has a species name.
Blah blah blah, Aggregor's evil plot, whatever. OMNIPPLEPENT? WHAT WAS THAT?
Aw, Paradox. y u leave azmuth behind? :C
"Bouncy baby Alien X." How terribly uncute. At least Ben knows that they can't let Aggregor touch it. someone shop Aggregor's face onto PedoBear. DO IT RIGHT FREAKING NOW.
"Then we can't be killed?" "You most certainly can." "Aw."
IRON MAN? WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE? eating delicious cherry pie, that's what.
Just once, I want to see Gwen fight and not have her energy powers crack like a piece of cheap plastic. Is this too much to ask? HER POWERS ARE ENERGY. At least the shards could hurt someone.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH. <3 fuckdammit, there went the rest of my popcorn, my trail mix, and my soda.
SASSY KID BEN. HAPPY FLAILING HAPPY FLAILING HAPPY FLAILING.
I like how bb!Ben recognizes Kevin, but not Gwen or even himself. :>
I swear, if bb!Ben fucking shouts his alien's name, I'm gonna punch someone. HE DIDN'T SHOUT YAY. But that transformation sequence didn't have the same feel. Oh well, celebrating with pie anyway.
Isn't there an energy drink called "NRG"? Wait, why is he in the suit of armor? Suits of armor are not part of a DNA sequence.
did he just stare at gwen's tits.
Kevin just looks kinda fond of bb!Ben. Can has bb!Keu? :D
I WILL LOVE BB!BEN FOR FOREVER. Like, that whole thing. With the jetpacks and the Gwen having a big butt and snarkiness I MISSED THIS SO MUCH yet it somehow feels forced. =/a and Ben is "just oblivious." Boy, are you being flippant with me? ARE YOU BEING FLIPPANT.
I feel like this whole srs bisons speech was just a meta rant towards the people that have bitched about Ben being TOO serious. Like me.
Baby Alien X is kinda cute.
HAHAHA, KEVIN GIVING BB!BEN "THE TALK" XD and bb!Ben is just like :|?
"Just a copy of Wyldvyne"? More meta. Douchey meta.
The Omnitrix never made that noise when it was timed out. Laaaaame.
F-for some reason, bb!Ben suggesting that Kevin absorb his Omnitrix broke my heart a bit. D':
K-KEVIN. D'8 So let's think here. We have Mutie!Keu from Ben 10, Neo Mutie!Keu from the round robin fic Grudge Match Redux, Neu Mutie!Keu from S3 of Alien Force, and old Mutie!Keu from the episode "Ken 10." Whaaaaaat are we calling this dude? He looks...Bad. Like, there's not interesting balance at all like there was with Mutie!Keu.
Hug him, Ben. Save him from committing evil deeds with the power of your love. or give him a nice pie. No evil deeds can be committed when pie is involved.
Aw, sassy bb!Ben puts the smackdown on. AND KEVIN LISTENS. THAT'S REALLY KINDA CUTE.
...And there Kevin goes, storming off like the angsty teenager he is. I bet he slammed his bedroom door, started blasting Linkin Park, and wrote an angry LiveJournal entry.
Paradox's goggles. THEY DO NOTHING.
I was kinda hoping bb!Ben would hang around for a bit or maybe, idk, Neu Neu Mutie!Keu would sweep him up and keep his as a hostage/pet/Jimminy Cricket for a little while. I MISS THE LITTLE BUGGER.
Oh, yeah, stuff about trusting Kevin, blah blah bleeeeeh...Benangst. Pie. Pie could cure Benangst.
"What about Kevin?" "Don't worry, Gwen. I'll take care of him." OH WILL YOU NOW, BENJI? HOHOHOHOOO~
Okay, right, overall...I enjoyed it, but it was not mind-blowing to me. I tend to go into every Ben 10 episode these days expecting to be crushed by disappointment. This was interesting and fun, but I'm still unimpressed by a few aspects of the episode. Notably, Neu Neu Mutie!Keu. He looks like they just hacked up a few pictures of Ben's aliens and then pulled them out of a hat.
Even though I should be amazed and thrilled by Kevin being evil and crazypants again, I'm just...kinda B| about it. Why didn't this happen in S3 of Alien Force? Maybe are we going to possibly learn how Kevin demutie-fied the first time? Will it be magic again? Will Kevin and Gwen kiss? It feels like a recycled story plot. Not the good type of recycling that Captain Planet would high-five you for, either.
And...Did Aggregor die? Did everyone just kinda forget he was lying there? Maybe one of the Celestial Sapiens will make a motion to clean out the trash and just kinda sweep him down the garbage chute. Along with the pie, because I don't think that Celestial Sapiens like pie. For shame.
There was something about the whole episode that just kinda threw me off, but I couldn't quite put my finger on it until the end. If McDuff is gonna retcon this party so that only aliens from the Milky Way Galaxy were in the Omnitrix, how do we justify having a Celestial Sapien in there? OH ALIEN X. YOU AND KEVIN ARE THE WALKING PLOTHOLES OF BEN 10.
Post-episode discussion with gravitiger opened up a few flaws: bb!Ben's hair looked a little flat and his eyes weren't as bright. Is this nitpicky? Yes. Does it piss us off? YES.
This is now a discussion post, darlings, SO DISCUSS. 8D I'll respond here and there, other people can respond. Make it a comment orgy, bbs. Gifsplosions are encouraged. <3
Discuss Kevin's favorite flavor of pie for bonus points.
What do you mean "That's not the title, stop being a moron"? Anyway, I missed the episode last night, but got it from the ever delightful gravitiger. So, snaps for you, bb. <3
Don’t expect me to stay on track with this. Like, at all. Regular text is my initial reaction, small text will be my post-episode reaction. I just burned a bag of popcorn SO AWAY WE GOOOOOO!
Failed? Aw. Poor Beeeen. But Azmuth’s gesticulations amuse me.
Oh snap, yo. Is that a past plothole coming back to say “hi?” I like how the whole safety feature there was never mentioned before. Total asspull, and Gwen and Kevin didn’t even fight him for it. Aaaaaand how did that work when Albedo had the Ultimatrix first?
“Transformation 10” my ass. There’s like, a fuckton of transformations, okay. Don’t start numbering them.
Because I said I would say it: I still hate this opening. It’s like a prison line-up on Star Trek, and the music doesn’t get me pumped at all.
pie is delicious
YAAAAAY I LOVE THE FLOATING FACES! 8D I want Serena and Bellicus to adopt me. Gosh I love that grumpy bastard. “Motion to ignore him for 1000 years at which point we set him on fire for a second 1000 years.” SOUNDS REASONABLE, DUDE.
PARADOX!!!! 8D AKML there is popcorn everywhere. Damn my giddy flailing.
“Timewalker”? I like it.
Paradox and Azmuth must have had a lovers’ quarrel at some point. over who ate the last slice of pie.
“Shh, no spoilers.” FUCKING ladynyoko, YOU WERE STILL SPAZZING TO ME BEFORE I’D WATCHED IT. B|
ARMFLAILING.
I think I totally ship Azmuth/Paradox now. They bicker like an old married couple.
Celestial Sapien. That's the dumbest fucking...You know what, I give up. At least Alien X has a species name.
Blah blah blah, Aggregor's evil plot, whatever. OMNIPPLEPENT? WHAT WAS THAT?
Aw, Paradox. y u leave azmuth behind? :C
"Bouncy baby Alien X." How terribly uncute. At least Ben knows that they can't let Aggregor touch it. someone shop Aggregor's face onto PedoBear. DO IT RIGHT FREAKING NOW.
"Then we can't be killed?" "You most certainly can." "Aw."
IRON MAN? WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE? eating delicious cherry pie, that's what.
Just once, I want to see Gwen fight and not have her energy powers crack like a piece of cheap plastic. Is this too much to ask? HER POWERS ARE ENERGY. At least the shards could hurt someone.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH. <3 fuckdammit, there went the rest of my popcorn, my trail mix, and my soda.
SASSY KID BEN. HAPPY FLAILING HAPPY FLAILING HAPPY FLAILING.
I like how bb!Ben recognizes Kevin, but not Gwen or even himself. :>
I swear, if bb!Ben fucking shouts his alien's name, I'm gonna punch someone. HE DIDN'T SHOUT YAY. But that transformation sequence didn't have the same feel. Oh well, celebrating with pie anyway.
Isn't there an energy drink called "NRG"? Wait, why is he in the suit of armor? Suits of armor are not part of a DNA sequence.
did he just stare at gwen's tits.
Kevin just looks kinda fond of bb!Ben. Can has bb!Keu? :D
I WILL LOVE BB!BEN FOR FOREVER. Like, that whole thing. With the jetpacks and the Gwen having a big butt and snarkiness I MISSED THIS SO MUCH yet it somehow feels forced. =/a and Ben is "just oblivious." Boy, are you being flippant with me? ARE YOU BEING FLIPPANT.
I feel like this whole srs bisons speech was just a meta rant towards the people that have bitched about Ben being TOO serious. Like me.
Baby Alien X is kinda cute.
HAHAHA, KEVIN GIVING BB!BEN "THE TALK" XD and bb!Ben is just like :|?
"Just a copy of Wyldvyne"? More meta. Douchey meta.
The Omnitrix never made that noise when it was timed out. Laaaaame.
F-for some reason, bb!Ben suggesting that Kevin absorb his Omnitrix broke my heart a bit. D':
K-KEVIN. D'8 So let's think here. We have Mutie!Keu from Ben 10, Neo Mutie!Keu from the round robin fic Grudge Match Redux, Neu Mutie!Keu from S3 of Alien Force, and old Mutie!Keu from the episode "Ken 10." Whaaaaaat are we calling this dude? He looks...Bad. Like, there's not interesting balance at all like there was with Mutie!Keu.
Hug him, Ben. Save him from committing evil deeds with the power of your love. or give him a nice pie. No evil deeds can be committed when pie is involved.
Aw, sassy bb!Ben puts the smackdown on. AND KEVIN LISTENS. THAT'S REALLY KINDA CUTE.
...And there Kevin goes, storming off like the angsty teenager he is. I bet he slammed his bedroom door, started blasting Linkin Park, and wrote an angry LiveJournal entry.
Paradox's goggles. THEY DO NOTHING.
I was kinda hoping bb!Ben would hang around for a bit or maybe, idk, Neu Neu Mutie!Keu would sweep him up and keep his as a hostage/pet/Jimminy Cricket for a little while. I MISS THE LITTLE BUGGER.
Oh, yeah, stuff about trusting Kevin, blah blah bleeeeeh...Benangst. Pie. Pie could cure Benangst.
"What about Kevin?" "Don't worry, Gwen. I'll take care of him." OH WILL YOU NOW, BENJI? HOHOHOHOOO~
Okay, right, overall...I enjoyed it, but it was not mind-blowing to me. I tend to go into every Ben 10 episode these days expecting to be crushed by disappointment. This was interesting and fun, but I'm still unimpressed by a few aspects of the episode. Notably, Neu Neu Mutie!Keu. He looks like they just hacked up a few pictures of Ben's aliens and then pulled them out of a hat.
Even though I should be amazed and thrilled by Kevin being evil and crazypants again, I'm just...kinda B| about it. Why didn't this happen in S3 of Alien Force? Maybe are we going to possibly learn how Kevin demutie-fied the first time? Will it be magic again? Will Kevin and Gwen kiss? It feels like a recycled story plot. Not the good type of recycling that Captain Planet would high-five you for, either.
And...Did Aggregor die? Did everyone just kinda forget he was lying there? Maybe one of the Celestial Sapiens will make a motion to clean out the trash and just kinda sweep him down the garbage chute. Along with the pie, because I don't think that Celestial Sapiens like pie. For shame.
There was something about the whole episode that just kinda threw me off, but I couldn't quite put my finger on it until the end. If McDuff is gonna retcon this party so that only aliens from the Milky Way Galaxy were in the Omnitrix, how do we justify having a Celestial Sapien in there? OH ALIEN X. YOU AND KEVIN ARE THE WALKING PLOTHOLES OF BEN 10.
Post-episode discussion with gravitiger opened up a few flaws: bb!Ben's hair looked a little flat and his eyes weren't as bright. Is this nitpicky? Yes. Does it piss us off? YES.
This is now a discussion post, darlings, SO DISCUSS. 8D I'll respond here and there, other people can respond. Make it a comment orgy, bbs. Gifsplosions are encouraged. <3
Discuss Kevin's favorite flavor of pie for bonus points.