B10:AF 'Good Copy, Bad Copy'

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I approve of this person I don't know relating the words of someone else I don't know being vaguely answered by someone who revels in bizarre and trolling. Charmcaster really deserves a break, what with all the shit she's been put through.

I also approve of Young Justice's Blue Beetle, like in the latest episode (on 5/19). Though I can't decide if it's funnier when you only hear Jaime's side of the conversation or when you can hear both him and the Scarab... I think, while the Scarab's hostility and sheer sociopathic nature are funny, the seeming-non-sequitors of Jaime are hilarious.

I also also approve of everyone GOING TO SEE THE AVENGERS RIGHT NOW WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR GO GO DO IT. It's pretty much the greatest! movie! EVER!


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To review:

-Sequel!Kevin is Keith.
-Humungousaur is Hugo.
-Jetray is Jeffrey.

And the "These idiots should be dead" count is:
3.

So, we start the episode with the Forever Knights literally shaking in their bland armor as Hugo chases them into a random medieval castle in the middle of the U.S.. For one, how do you find something like that in, oh, the freakin' United States!? When did we ever have knights in shining armor rushing around, gallantly saving maidens from monsters?

For two, why do these idiots only have swords? The originals had pretty dangerous weaponry and some serious tech down in their giant castle-like manor, enough for Grey Matter to disintegrate the entire place. These were the guys that were supposed to be killing a dragon; why don't they have superior weaponry!?

For three, you see Hugo here? Well, the form he is in is his full-size form, as seen in the previous Forever Knight episode. However, in this episode, maximized!Hugo's hand is about the size of one of the knights if not smaller. In "Be-Knighted", maximized!Hugo's fingers were bigger than both Knight What's-his-name and Squire Get's-killed-in-a-cheap-attempt-at-an-emotional-reaction-but-no-one-gave-a-shit-really. Where's the art continuity here?

It's sad, really. Hugo's ability to increase his size is what really set him apart from, say, Four Arms, Cannonbolt, or Way Big, who he replaced from the original line-up, but it doesn't get used after the Ultimate function pops up...

Idiot plot ahoy! :ahoy:

Gwen and Keith arrive just as Jeffrey flies off and, even though Albedo is searching for Ben, he doesn't turn around when Gwen loudly shouts out his name. Unless Albedo is deaf, this episode should have been about ten minutes shorter.

Also, where'd the "Ben's left eye twitches when he lies" thing come from? This has never happened before and doesn't happen again! It's a random plot device that is used to facilitate the plot.

In another fit of stupidity driving the plot, the cook doesn't even blink when Albedo starts blathering on about how humanity stinks and the DNA is what is making him do this... nor when Ben shows up maybe three seconds later, acting completely different. In fact, logically, Ben should have been able to see Albedo as soon as he walked in the door!

For my money, I'd bet that at least one person out of the dozen or so people in that restaurant would have noticed first Albedo then Ben transform into Big Chill, the latter calling out the name even though it wastes time and there was a suspicious lack of people to hear him. Again, Ben's secret should be out, but no, everyone contracts plot-induced blindness.

Also, two things for this battle.
1) How did Gwen knock out a Forever Knight with a kick? What, are her little spaghetti legs made of iron? Is Forever Knight armor made of papier-mâché? Or... what? How does a kick from an anorexic whore take out a guy in plate armor? Seriously, the writers really need to make Gwen's powers consistent, since she goes from being less than worthless to doing shit that would leave Toph speechless.

2) At least one of the knights get knocked into the moat by Gwen and Keith. You know, the guys that are encased in metal that seems to have no seams to open them by. Logically, Gwen and/or Keith have murdered at least one knight in possibly the most horrifying way possible. But it's okay! As we all know, the Forever Knights are evil and evil deserves to be drowned even when they aren't actually doing anything other than defending themselves.

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How are these people heroes again?

Albedo goes on to say that the Omnitrix is incomplete, prone to catastrophic failure, and could rip a hole in the universe. Two things:
1) While the Omnitrix is probably incomplete, all the failures and malfunctions seen in the original stem from the fact Azmuth is a jerk and wanted to screw with everyone's minds by making the Omnitrix hell to use, though some might have been augmented by Ben wrecking the controls in "Back with a Vengeance".
2) What do Null Void projectors do? They rip holes in the fabric of reality to access alternate dimensions. I don't think another hole is going to really affect anything.

And here's another retcon from the original series. The Omnitrix and its successor fly on and off of Ben's wrist like any regular watch while, in the original, the Omnitrix had bonded with his DNA. The Omnitrix had literally become part of Ben's body. The only time it came off in the original was via a painful extraction that literally ripped the device from Ben's flesh. In contrast to what Ben says in this episode, one doesn't just "take off" the Omnitrix. And one doesn't just "pop in!" on the Earth King.


Here, let's go back to the left-eye-twitch thing from before. In this scene, Albedo's left eye twitches when he attempts to weasel his way out of being asked if he knew about how to remove the Omnitrix. Yet it doesn't happen when he lies about: creating the Omnitrix, Azmuth being a liar, the Omnitrix catastrophically failing, the Omnitrix ripping a hole in reality, about why he wants the Omnitrix, pretending to be Ben, etc.

Apparently, Jeffrey can carry something of the approximate size and weight of a tank without dipping in the slightest. Here's a review on an Aerophibian's powers: super-strength enough to carry Hugo with no problems (Four Arms), super-speed enough to hit hyperspace (XLR8), super-durability to withstand gunfire and hyperspace speeds (Cannonbolt), flight (Stinkfly), aquatic abilities (Ripjaws), eye beams (Eye Guy), and space suvivability. In retrospect, Jeffrey might be king of alien combo platters even over Swampfire.

Oddly, Ben uses Hugo to combat Albedo using Jeffrey, which is honestly just plain stupid considering the fact that Vaxasarians are pretty much just giant targets to be shot at.

After chasing Albedo down, Ben geniusly decides to not give himself any distinguishing characteristics so that his friends can tell him and Albedo apart. He doesn't just leave the damn X on his face, doesn't flip his jacket inside out or tie it around his head like a turban, take his pants off, just stick with the others, nothing. He goes off and gives Albedo every opportunity to masquerade as him.



Which he does. And terribly, might I add, talking like he was reading from a script and acting in a manner that even sequel!Ben hasn't ever tried. Yet Gwen and Keith believe him! Even though Ben went in the opposite direction and there are two of him wandering around.



Obviously, their sheer dumbassery results in them getting foamed against the wall, which they are incapable of escaping from. Yep, the foam is an inescapable death trap. Nothing they can do can free them. Not the eyebeams Gwen displayed in "Max Out", not the fact that Keith's powers should increase his weight enough to free them, not the fact that Keith's powers appear to give him super-strength for some bizarre reason, not the fact that there are potentially millions of ways Gwen could, oh, magic their way out. Nope. Packing foam is the ultimate trap.

Then, we have the re-debut of Azmuth! He who once hated the entire universe but is now the leader of the Galvan. Indeed, a reclusive hermit who was willing to destroy the universe because he didn't like it makes an excellent leader. He goes on to say that only one Omnitrix can be in existence. This is in direct contrast to the original series episode "Ken 10", in which Ben himself builds a second Omnitrix to give to his son, and to the fact that Vilgax, MASTER OF THE OMNITRIX, planned to duplicate the device to build an army of wielders. I'd think that Azmuth, allegedly the smartest creature in 5 galaxies, would realize that it would be possible to duplicate the device when he planned to foster peace and understanding throughout the galaxy! One Omnitrix to billions of billions of advanced lifeforms would be just straight-up stupid. Either Azmuth isn't as smart as he claims to be or the writers didn't bother checking their facts when pumping out this episode. I'm leaning towards the latter myself.

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Albedo: one of the best characters in the sequels (alongside Paradox, Darkstar, and Rath) who never, and I mean NEVER, gets treated with proper respect by the writers.

"Charmcaster really deserves a break, what with all the shit she's been put through."

AGREED. Though no matter how much better "Omniverse" looks than "Ultimate Alien Force", as long as Man of Action isn't around, I'm cynical about how Charmcaster will be handled. The best thing they could do with her is redeem her present-day "Hope" self then never use her in any episode ever again, and instead continue using the Charmcaster of 11-year old Ben and Gwen's time as a villain (which would be fun, since we'd actually have Gwen and Charm mirroring each other again and being true foils to each other rather than whatever the hell awful teenage Gwen and awful "Hope" Charmcaster are supposed to be.)