Thursday 23 July 2015

Wait, Ben 10's Getting A Reboot!?

Ben 10 was a show that I watched as a kid and I very much enjoyed it, but who knew that Cartoon Network was going to turn this into their Spongebob and milk it for everything it's worth? Ben 10 ran from 2005 to 2008, a fairly decent length of time for a cartoon, it had a simple yet enjoyable story and a satisfactory conclusion. Then it got a sequel series known as Ben 10: Alien Force, which was good, but not as great, then we got Ben 10: Ultimate Alien, which was so similar that I don't even understand why it counts as a new tv show. Finally there was Ben 10 Omniverse, a show I never watched because...well i can't use age as an excuse, if that was possible i should have stopped watching around Alien Force, but point is I never watched it, so i have no idea if it was good or not. Point is, a simple kids show about a boy who can transform into 10 aliens somehow became an intergalactic superhero who could transform into like 30-40 aliens (kinda ruins the point of being called Ben 10).

Finally, in 2014 the show ended and we could all finally move on with our lives...except now Cartoon Network are rebooting the show from the beginning, which will most likely lead to another 3 sequel shows. Basically they beat a dead horse, brought it back to life just the beat it even more. Is it me or does Cartoon Network have some serious co-dependency problems? I mean not just now, but they've always had that, most people agree that Dexter's Lab and Johnny Bravo went on way longer than they should have, Adventure Time has been around since 2010 with no end in sight, and now they're rebooting Ben 10? Yeah they're rebooting Powerpuff Girls unnecessarily, but at least they waited 10 years before bringing that back, this was less than a year from when the show ended to being announced for a reboot! The show started 10 years ago and now they're trying to milk it for another 10 years? Cartoon Network needs to learn that sometimes letting a show run for 5 seasons or less is a perfectly valid option, except for Ed Edd 'N' Eddy, that show never should have ended.

-Danny

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