The Scene That BROKE Ben 10

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THE REVIEW
I watch each episode with my own commentary, often pausing the scenes to get my words out without having to talk over the episode, and also to point out and analyze the show's art and animation. I have seen each episode already growing up, so these reviews are to compare and contrast the five categories listed below.

PLOT (Scaled from 1 to 5 Points)
The foundation of the episode. Uniqueness and overused tropes are taken into account, but it is also judged on how well it tells the story of the episode. An episode can score a 5 even with a basic/ cliche plotline as long as it has good pacing, worthy use of its tropes, and feels well-polished. An episode can lose points due to plotholes, uneven storytelling, and relying too heavily on cliches to do the work for it.

CHARACTERIZATION (Scaled from 1 to 5 Points)
How well the characters are written. Do they feel like themselves compared to the grand narrative of the franchise? Are the supporting or one-off characters interesting, or pure plot devices? Did the humor land? Did the actions and character motivations make sense?

VISUALS (Scaled from 1 to 5 Points)
Basically, everything that happens on-screen. Character Design. Animation. Backgrounds. Creative mechanics and solutions. If there is CGI or digital effects added, how well do they blend into the show, and were they used as an enhancement, or a crutch?

IMPORTANCE (Scaled from 1 to 5 Points)
This includes, but is not strictly based on, how important the episodes are to the current story arc (if there is one) or the general narrative of the Ben 10 Franchise. Points can also be awarded for how impactful the episode was, or how favored/ important it is to the general Ben 10 fanbase. I ask myself, "If I skipped this, would I be missing out on the 'Ben 10 Experience?' "

ENTERTAINMENT (Scaled from 1 to 5)
Pretty much the most important part of developing a tv show. You can be perfect in all four of the previous categories, but the episode can still be boring. On the flip side, the episode can be absolute garbage, but still an enjoyable watch. How likely would you be to put this episode on if you were in the mood to watch Ben 10?

[Ray-zplm]

Alien force s1 and 2 proved that you can write good episodes while having Ben get the alien he wants. If the show wanted Ben to stick with a wrong transformation, they should of had a rule where he has to wait 10 mins before he can transform to another alien, then there is an excuse why he can’t immediately change.

[BeastForce]

Swampfire’s first appearance in Omniverse.
As Kuro said’s: It’s my boy.

[sunsetvibe]

Ben pressing the Omnitrix several times just to get the right alien is the equivalent of clicking on & off the same YouTube video several times just to bypass the ads that you have to watch before the actual video starts even if they’re only 15 seconds long.

[timedragon]

I think the reason why Ben just doesn't do this constantly is because of how adaptive he is. He may not have gotten the alien he originally selected, but if Ben is confident he can make his current alien work then he won't bother changing. He wouldn't want to risk shortening the timer or getting something even worse (which happened twice in this very scene) so he only switches if he knows for an absolute fact that current alien won't work. (Walkatrout is the exception since Ben's stubby little fins are too short to reach the dial so he couldn't switch even if he wanted to.)

[matthewrooney]

I always thought there were different reasons
1. It wastes energy to try again
2. If he did transform again he might get something worse
3. In a fight someone could attack him while transforming
But yeah I do agree he could transform more often

[ARDIZsq]

I feel like if they REALLY wanted to keep the re-transformation thing, they could have given it the drawback of Ben timing out quicker and quicker with each time he re-transforms. That could explain why he doesn't do it all the time, since more situations would benefit from him being in Alien form for longer, regardless of if it's the "right" one for the situation. It would make re-transforming more of a "last-ditch effort" type of thing instead of just being a "free reroll."

[pablosilva]

I feel this was a problem since AF season 3, if you're gonna have him mistransform get rid of the quickchange, because mistransforming should be a non issue. There are episodes where he mistransforms, fights as the alien for a while, then quickchanges to another alien. I'm like why didn't you change right after becoming the alien you didn't want

[nateds]

The best part of this episode was Ben just being 110% done from second one. His hydrogen rant is so dang funny, and Yuri Lowenthal's "Oh for the love of God what now!?" Delivery throughout the whole thing just kills me.

[umapessoa]

I’ve been patiently waiting for the Swampfire gag to reach its logical conclusion of Kuro screaming it to the heavens. I was not disappointed

[young_gang]

The way Kuro gets excited by Swampfire is hilarious 😂😂😂
I thought he was gonna say his name like in Alien force or Ultinate Alien 😅

[StanHanrahan]

drop the entire 'its my boi' remix we need it 🔥🔥

[angau]

I think the point of the scene was to showcase that even if Ben tried to transform into another alien, its not guarantee to work either, he literally turned to Juryrrig, to Gray Matter and even Nanomech before he could get an alien more suited for the situation and even then it was an alien that he didn't want originally.
If anything, I think the writers intended for this to be the explication, not a contradiction.

[arkhamtony]

2 things I want to say :
1 - I was at first a bit disappointed that this episode didn’t get a full review, mainly because I thought I wouldn’t hear Kuro say ‘ My boy’ when Swampfire appeared. But it is great that at the end he said it .

2- I think the reason Ben doesn’t transform into another alien after mistransforming is because he thinks he can still do it or at least tries to handle the situation as that alien .

[andrewgin]

If this is how Kuro reacts to Swampfire's 30-second voiceless cameo, I can't imagine how he'll be when we get to the Charmcaster episode.

[pumpkinjoe]

I always assumed that, since retransforming canonically lowers the battery life, Ben only chose to quickly cycle through aliens here because all he thought he had to do at the time was save the train, and that didn't take him more than 30 seconds.

[JdawgCosplay]

I think every time Ben changes transformations it drains the power or decreases to remaining time limit. Azmuth also said in AF after the first interaction with Albeto he said constantly switching would “break” the watch.

[infinitypercival]

I don't think Pax acting like a normal person is THAT big of a deal. In fact, I think it fixes a certain plot hole: if most Flouranas are supposed to be downright feral, why doesn't Ben ever act more animalistic as Wildvine?

[Atticus-Catnipp]

I liked this gimmick because it came down to how resourceful and intelligent Ben as a person has to be with a standard set of abilities. In Alien force season 1 and 2 he was wise enough to chose the right alien for the right situation and it added to his maturity.

[Mono_Nerd_Production]

Remember that gag in classic where ben transformed into 10 of his aliens to try and beat the weird cult bomb thing on earth but still times out in between

Could of just done that-

[theoboangiu]

I always chalked it up to consuming energy. I can sort of excuse this scene since all the mistransformations were perhaps bad enough that he couldn't do anything with them and was left with no other choice but dealing with the excessive energy consumption.