Well like I said at DA.
She exist just to say "Look, Ben has a girlfriend....and it's not Gwen." They didn't give her anything else because her purpose doesn't go beyond that.
Your suggestions might help but she's still an unnecessary character. There's only so much you can do with her.
@tactical-ochoa
I think if I were in control of the canon version I would make some reference to other realities just as a nod to fan writers. Doing that validates the worlds created by fan fiction writers and I think helps keep a fan base interested.
I see your point about the messy nature of a multiverse or time travel but you really don't want us condemned to nothing but the AF/UA timeline do you.
What alternate realities would you like to see if we could do our own Omniverse series. What other course could the lives of our main characters have gone in. How would it have changed things.
I'll start. As a Bwen fan I'd like to see the world of the early idea that Ben and Gwen weren't related.
I think Paradox, or Professor Retcon as I've called him, could have been an interesting character but it seemed to me that he was there not to expand the Ben 10 universe (or multiverse) but to narrow it.
Fans suggested the idea of multiple realities as a way to deal with continuity errors and allow for stories that take things in a different direction.
It seems that CN tried to pour cold water on that with paradox and his idea of a "Prime" timeline. The others are just off shoots and of less importance than the prime. (The lives in those timelines are less important to I suppose.) With this they were saying that there is only one Ben 10 and this is it. Don't like it...don't watch.
Even when they showed other timelines they really didn't get very creative with it. I could name several ideas of interesting alternate versions of Ben 10 that fans might enjoy.
I think he could have worked if he were done in a different way. Perhaps he was a time traveler lost in the stream of time (Not too far from canon) and he now travels the multiverse trying to get to his own reality, (Somewhat like Sam Beckett from "Quantum Leap")
I'll have to watch it again but I don't remember anything that said it was a "What if" or in other words an AU. I saw nothing to indicate that it wasn't supposed to be the finale. It would have been a great way to pick up with "Ben 10: Hero Generation" set a few years later.
I think "Goodbye" was retconed as an AU because of all of the conflicts with AF...(Ben 10: POS)
RAT was a good alternate end to the series. I'm not sure which I like better,
Seems like Destory All Aliens was the alternate finale that would fit with POS.
They may be inherently pacifist, Ben is not.
Their armor seems to be mainly defensive but Ben found a way to use it offensively.
Bwen may never be canon but it will be part of the Ben 10 fandom as long as the fandom exist. With the of interest in Ben 10 I'm noticing that a large part of the die hard fans are Bweners.
I'd like to see MoA do a proper sequel to the OS. Maybe go with their "Hero Generation" idea.
I'd also be open to an anime version if only because that way we might get Bwen in canon.
Leave Kevin out of it and I might be on board.
Just be careful about copyright laws.
Sure, why not give that a chance. As I said elsewhere on this site, start from the beginning and hopefully do it right this time.
@KorseBLI-ND said in 17 year old ben 10 series:
I agree Rex just I hope it does not have the gwevin pairing in it
Could't agree more.
Could work if it's done right. But I'd prefer if the start from scratch and this time don't let CN screw it up.
@JrPhilgene A much lighter story I think.
I do like that Ben and Gwen aren't so hostile to each other. At least not in the clips I've seen.
@jondennison72 said in What Ben 10 show do we want?:
How about if they do a Ben 10 Reboot Christmas episode,Grandpa Max works a shopping mall dressed as Santa Claus and Ben and Gwen dressed as Santa's elves. So what do you think?
Now that could be a good episode.
@Ebomnitrix Although I'm not a fan of the sequel series the Galactic Road Trip idea sounds intriguing. I'd prefer if it were a stand alone rather than continuing AF through Omniverse, but I understand you may not want to do that. .
@Mortie-10 More of Max would be good.. Maybe, as another post suggest, some flashbacks to his past.. If it were possible Bwen would be nice. I'd want a mix of action, character development and humor. I want Gwen's power to go back to magic and not alien, no anodites. And keep Kevin as Ben's nemesis.. Ochoa suggested Kevin and Charmcaster as more anit-heroes than villains. That might work.
A look as some alternate realities might be interesting. They could get a lot of ideas about that from fan fiction writers.
@Tactical-Ochoa I didn't mean to start an argument about it.
I know that's the canon story but if I liked that I wouldn't write fan fiction for it.
Fortunately, since it is fiction there is not "real story" and one version is as valid as any other.
@Tactical-Ochoa The future is not set. There is no fate but what we make for ourselves. (I know that's not an exact quote)
But we could have a nerd debate about that all night. Ultimately, that's the great thing about fiction. it can be what you want it to be.
I like ending the show with "Good bye and Good Riddance" partly BECAUSE it conflicts with AF.
I always saw Ben 10,00 and Ken 10 as two separate alternate worlds. (For one thing the same kid is in the background of scenes in both episodes and hasn't aged ) So they happen at about the same point in different timelines.
But again, it's fiction so it can be what you want it to be.
@Tactical-Ochoa said in My Predictions on Ben 10 Hero Generation:
@car54 If you're referring to the episode "Goodbye and Good Riddance," that's not canon. Canonically, by the end of the OS no one knows about Ben hero life and the Omnitrix.
That was retconed into AU status so it wouldn't conflict with Alien Force. I thought it was a great way to end the series.
I did wonder if the live action movie "Race Against Time" was an attempt at a conclusion that wouldn't conflict with AF.
@KorseBLI-ND Sorry, I couldn't resist the reference.