I hate leaving a fandom like this. It's like a breakup, only this one was onscreen through the course of very painful and messy reviews.
It's July now, and I still can't articulate how I feel on all of this. How my favorite characters mostly all progressed into this mess. How the story just fell apart at the seams. And then the sense going around that the best thing to do is to scrap everything and go back to Ben 10 original in terms of style and substance.
I guess what I've been trying to get at is that I got into Alien Force because it was a series that appeared to be growing with its fandom and its star. It was slightly darker than the original and significantly more mature. It focused on friendship and family. It made Ben into a leader, while the first series focused on him as a hero. That was the first two seasons. After slipping in season three, Ultimate Alien got back on track by having Ben as THE hero--the one who everyone now was looking to to save the universe. All of the planet, all of the galaxy, all of the universe was looking at him. And I loved watching him struggle, watching him slowly rise under that weight. So going back to basics feels like a massive step backwards in terms of development of story and character.
Devlin and Ken refuse to let me walk away from their side of the fandom, and I still have "Derailed" and its lovely, cracky Den-O elements to play with. But honestly, I just want to play with my Kamen Riders instead now. Even when they screw up a season, it's not the entire franchise that feels destroyed in the wake of it.
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Re: Kapaychan
Date: 2012-07-08 04:42 am (UTC)It's July now, and I still can't articulate how I feel on all of this. How my favorite characters mostly all progressed into this mess. How the story just fell apart at the seams. And then the sense going around that the best thing to do is to scrap everything and go back to Ben 10 original in terms of style and substance.
I guess what I've been trying to get at is that I got into Alien Force because it was a series that appeared to be growing with its fandom and its star. It was slightly darker than the original and significantly more mature. It focused on friendship and family. It made Ben into a leader, while the first series focused on him as a hero. That was the first two seasons. After slipping in season three, Ultimate Alien got back on track by having Ben as THE hero--the one who everyone now was looking to to save the universe. All of the planet, all of the galaxy, all of the universe was looking at him. And I loved watching him struggle, watching him slowly rise under that weight. So going back to basics feels like a massive step backwards in terms of development of story and character.
Devlin and Ken refuse to let me walk away from their side of the fandom, and I still have "Derailed" and its lovely, cracky Den-O elements to play with. But honestly, I just want to play with my Kamen Riders instead now. Even when they screw up a season, it's not the entire franchise that feels destroyed in the wake of it.