Omniverse taints everything it touches. I watched Secret Saturdays, and this crossover still pissed me off. I didn't really watch Generator Rex, yet I loved Heroes United. I honestly felt Zak had matured somewhat. The thing that pissed me off the most in this crossover, however, was when Mr. Baumann grabbed Ben's arm just to keep him from transforming and potentially damaging his store while Chupacabras were on a rampage. This crossover also angered me because it ruined the emotional and satisfying ending of the Secret Saturdays.
MOO!
Really? God, I really need to watch more of Saturday to see about that ending.
Well, I should say TEMPORARILY, since Argost was killed again. Still, there was no need for Omniverse to use Argost. It could've used Abbey Grey as the Secret Saturdays villain for the crossover, since she is a bounty hunter.
MOO!
Well theokal hits it on the head. The writers were incompetent in that factor and the fans were too impatient for proper character development.
\"Omniverse taints everything it touches\" As if dude.
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I had pretty much lost faith in Ben 10 Omniverse after Rule of Engagement, and was considering to stop watching the show. But I heard about a crossover with The Secret Saturdays, which was the second crossover in the Ben 10 franchise (the first being the awesome Ben 10 Generator Rex Heroes United made by Man of Action before they started making crap for Marvel... but I digress). So, out of curiosity, I decided to check this one. Since I wasn't familiar with Secret Saturdays, I even took time to watch some episodes of the show so I wouldn't be lost.
Then the episode came up. And let's say it... the result is as disappointing as ever.
The Secret Saturdays characters are portrayed as mostly completely different from their original portrayal, Zack being the worst offender. The plot is decent, but rather cliché. What pisses me off, however, is that Ben's Flanderization is painfully obvious: his contribution to the episode mostly consists in getting the butt of jokes, hitting on Zack's mom (which I felt was more awkward than funny), getting portrayed as dumb and using the same aliens he always use in every episode (For a show that had Jetray Put on a Bus for being a Spotlight-Stealing Squad, they sure don't shy away from constantly using Shocksquatch, Kickin Hawk and Feedback to the detriment of most other aliens). In fact, I think Ben only fought right in two scene of the whole episode and got ridiculized the rest of the time. And of course, the best development we could get was shallow comments about how they envy each other's stuff and Zack would like some credit for saving the world. Unlike Heroes United, we don't get to see the heroes doing any fun combination of their powers; the villain is just defeated in a very anti-climatic way by Feedback, who turns out to be his Weaksauce Weakness (Gee, who would have guessed?).
On the brighter side, Argost was fairly in-character: he had the same voice than in the original series, and acted more or less appropriately. But even he cannot save the show, and I expected something bigger than what came up.
Overall, a disappointment and much inferior to Heroes United. You might enjoy it if you are Secret Saturday fan, since most characters act like you'd expect, but don't expect Ben to shine.