Zero Degrees wrote:Duh. Obviously, it's just Ben's personality. I just hope they're interesting as CHARACTERS in their own right, not necessarily personalities.Lodestar's Advocate wrote:Ben's aliens aren't characters.
That's stupid.
If a person looks different, they're still the same person they were before. they're all Ben--that's the entire point of the entire show.
Ben is still Ben. Fasttrack is not Fasttrack, Fasttrack is Ben. I don't care if Duffie thought they were writing for forty different characters, but they weren't. They were just writing Ben.
The new aliens are never going to be good characters because they're not characters, they're forms.
Just because they're all Ben doesn't mean they can't be handled well enough as characters. By characters, I don't mean any separate entities but...Dunno how to explain it but I want good development and each alien to have a unique flavor of their own. Even if all the aliens are Ben doesn't mean I want only Ben's personality in all aliens. I want him different in each alien, kinda like how some people's personalities are different with different groups of friends, despite being the same person.
I don't want just new designs and new powers but they should really be done 'right'. It's why I like XLR8 more than Fasttrack: the writers handled him well, like a character, even if it's simply an alien form of Ben. Fasttrack never had that; he was just powers, in my humble opinion.
However, to each their own .
Greymatter= Smart Ben
Jury Rigg= Reckless Ben
Humongasaur/Waybig= Clumsy Ben
need I say more :p