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Message: <blockquote data-quote="supun75" data-source="post: 3072182" data-attributes="member: 50291">Ben 10: Alien ForceMarch 21st, 2008 1:16 PM by Aaron H. BynumPart IIIThe quality of animation is better here in general, than in the previous series, I would argue. Now in their teens and with a more pronounced physical prowess to them, Ben, Gwen and Kevin can actually move around a battlefield. Being a lanky teenager allows the animators to have more options, more room to move him around an environment. The action scenes too, are much more fluid and complex in Ben 10: Alien Force. All of which is a nice step up from where we were before. It's a shame though that the filtered background artwork has been abandoned from the previous series.Not everything is a step up. The music is far from impressive, the dialogue feels really sluggish, and the inclusion of an "emotional/sentimental" side of our characters is often out of place.The music is more diverse than before, attempting to evolve as a scene does, but ultimately falls short when it comes to setting any sort of tone at all. Perhaps a result of its newness, the dialogue isn't very crisp either -- often resulting in poorly metered conversations and awkward moments of "dead air" that feel quite bizarre.It is also worth mentioning that because Ben, Gwen and Kevin are all teenagers, we're invariably going to dive headfirst into a whirlpool of hormones. Sometimes this is good and sometimes this is bad for Ben 10: Alien Force. Good? Ben gets to voice his opinions with passion, not just thinking he's right, but knowing it too. For example, one really cool moment is when Ben gets royally ticked off at Gwen for insinuating that grandpa Max is dead (even though this scene in particular ends rather stupidly, his outburst is excellent). The Bad? Lame attempts by the show creators at interjecting teen melodrama into the story, such as when Ben makes a terribly cheesy analogy of him learning to ride a bicycle being equivalent to him learning to use the Omnitrix on his own.That all said, Ben 10: Alien Force, much like its predecessor, has a good amount of room to grow.The show has some good things to capitalize on and some areas where it needs to pick up the slack.Ben is still as hilarious as ever when he's in alien form; when he transforms into Swampfire, a virtual crossover between Wildvine and Heatblast, Ben's cracking jokes about his nifty regenerative powers when obviously facing a dangerous threat.The series' goal right now seems to be to expand character relationships and character interactions in just about every way possible. I mean, Ben's even got a romantic interest in the form of a mousy but cute girl named Julie, who appears smitten by his soccer goalie-ing abilities (yet in the interest of full disclosure, I personally think that Julie looks a lot like "Annie" from The New Adventures of Batman & Robin [1997], and you know that that means…).In the end, I'm a bit disappointed that the Johnny Quest theme has completely died off by now (however much young Tennyson looks like the Quest boy now), what with the series' inevitable transition into purely a teen adventure story, but I guess that can be expected of a contemporary animated television series with this much merchandising potential.</blockquote>

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