My opinion of this episode, was something less expected as I was hoping for.
I didn't like that they showed all that Present Stuff, I was kinda hoping Ben would go Ripjaws onscreen... even a sequence for him would've been sweet, and I was hoping that Ripjaws would've been by Young Ben.
However the episode is a 6 to me, It could've been way better imo, but it was fairly decent to me, and it gives a lot of respect to the OPians who are big fans of Baumann.
I love how the Vulkanus stuff was revealed, I love how the guy who wrote the best OS and the 200th episode wrote this, it explains why it feels more OSy.
I kinda wish the episode was more like this:
More badass seriousness and actioness going down, it wasn't a love story related episode, a lot more aliens (including Eatle, I'm no OPian but I love seeing Eatle too), I kinda wish it had like 7-9 aliens and had more of a mix of story and Ben's heroicness, with Baumann having the same role as he did, even a little bit more of Rook than a cameo would've done it for me.
But as for how I can rate this episode, this wasn't disappointing, it's better than what I saw out of Charm School, so hey, it's an episode I can say that was more decent.
The only thing disappointing was seeing XLR8, he becomes more annoying every time I see him. I would've prefered Astrodactyl or Fasttrack, or even Unitaur, but ah well.