Like I said, love it or hate it. I was in the fandom for about four years, and I saw some pretty fucked up stuff--it's a fandom where nobody is happy and everybody is miserable.

Alien Force and Ultimate Alien both showed in their first seasons that Ben could be an interesting character if handled right, but too much pandering to old school fans turned him into Tendou 2.0. Or rather, 1.0--his show premiered maybe a month or two before Kabuto. Instead, Ultimate Alien season 1 is really more about Kevin, and most fans of that series will pretty much agree he became the better character and should have gotten a spinoff.