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« on: January 28, 2009, 02:55:40 AM »
That crossover would be easy, but you'd have to find a large catapult to throw those dinokids over the ocean... full of sharks.
I'll be honest. My little cousins LOVE this show. I mean like, LOVE it. I have TRIED. I mean I honestly and against all rationality TIRED to like this show. But I can't. It suffers from trying too hard. I'll try to analogize. (Huh huh, I said a naughty sounding word that wasn't really naughty.)
Ahem.
Say you have a show that stars Aliens. Thats cool, lotta people like alien themed cartoons.
Now say you have a show that stars witches. Again awesome, long as they don't pander to trying to make it a girls only show it will flourish.
Oh and then there's a show about a kid genius that out thinks adults and using his special powers to over power the adult bad guys. Great show, kids eat it up, etc.
Now what? Well some overly ambitious tw-er person is going to get it into their head that you can't have too much of a good thing and make a show about a kid genius that has alien superpowers and as a witch as a partner who is also an alien. That, my friends, is called "Jumping the Shark". But instead of running out of ideas and making ludicrous plots Ben 10 was already flying over the shark from conception.
It's like saying, "Hey! Root beer is awesome! So are jellybeans! Lets make Root Beer flavored jelly beans!" Have you had those? Those are some NASTY tasting things. EW. Hey potato chips are awesome too! Lets make Root Beer Jellybean flavored Potato Chips!
That my friends? Is Ben 10.
Ben 10 is like Rootbeer Jellybean flavored Potato Chips.
~Toby