Duped

[Omni-X]

This episode premieres this Friday. Ben splits himself into 3 Echo Echo's then turns back into 3 Different Ben's. The intimate Ben, the immature Ben that loves Julie, and the one who loves to fight. Any ideas on this at all. Commercial didnt show to much on this episode except that the Forever Knights make an appearance.

[perhapsormaybe]

Looks pretty interesting to me. Chuckled that the Ben that wants to talk about his feelings is stuck with Kevin. Lols for all. I'm really looking forward to it, it looks pretty funny.

[dragonelf]

This one looks like it'll be very funny. Already the commercial made me laugh. Kevin's face when Ben said that he wanted to talk about his feelings was hilarious. I'm excited to see how that conversation turns out.

[perhapsormaybe]

If it were a more adult show, probably with "Dude...you're gay." Given that it's Ben 10 it'll probably be Kevin trying to dodge the questions while Ben whines about how Kevin isn't being honest about his feelings.

[datdude]

This i vote funniest EP ever. It beats Con of Rath by a mile.

OK all those questions about if the worlds knows about Gwen at least got answered.



Hight above for my spoilerish comments since we lake a spoiler tag.

[Lady Lasa]

D, maybe it's the browsers I use (as I've tried with both IE and Firefox) but I can't highlight the text to see what you wrote without getting an error message.

Spoilers below the break.











I thought this was a good one. Definitely better than anything Season 3 AF gave us. Decent plot and sub plot. I thought it was hilarious that Sensitive!Ben got paired with Kevin. I'm willing to delude myself into thinking that it was a nod to the BeVin shippers. Jerk!Ben got stuck watching the tennis game and of course acted like a jerk. Obviously, Julie didn't take it very well, so maybe they'll finally break up and open the door for either the return of Elena or another romantic interest. Or, they'll keep him single. Or they'll reconcile. I know what I'd like to see happen, but it's not up to me, unfortunately.

Overall, I give this one a 9 out of 10. It wasn't epic, but it was still a pretty good episode.

[datdude]

i edited the post since the ep has aired.

All an all im with you on the better then anything in season 3

[perhapsormaybe]

Gwen was...really kind of ...mean. I get that she was trying to keep Ben in line, but she came off really harsh. I'm still not sure why Julie didn't tell Ben it was over and why he didn't explain to her his mistake (making sure to explain that he split into 3 because he wanted to be there for her and also wanted to make sure the world was safe...there's really no excuse for the Sumo Slammers thing, though). These are my complaints...now for the good:

Seriously, I think the kind Ben being put with Kevin *was* a shout out or a gimme to all the Bevin shippers. And I loved every second of it. This was a hilarious episode and it felt like things were back to were Alien Force was at its best. It was a great episode and I cracked up quite a few times watching it, though why none of Ben's forms had the common sense to have Nice Ben stay to watch Julie's game bewilders me.

[Lady Lasa]

Because it's Ben we're talking about here. He doesn't always make the best decisions. It actually seemed pretty true to his character that he wouldn't have the foresight to send Jerk!Ben with Kevin and have Sensitive!Ben stay with Julie.

[datdude]

I don't think Julie will call it quits with Ben. Its like Gwen holding being " unpolished " against Kevin. You'd need to not know Kevin really well or at all to think he was any other way.

Also if she leaves its like " Elena time " and I'd rather forget alien swarm.

As for our three Ben's we had

1.) Sensitive Ben

2.) Ben classic > jerkface <

3.) Was three the real Ben or just not as interesting as the other two?

[Lady Lasa]

Alien Swarm wasn't that bad. At least it was better than they live action ones they did for the original series.

I think the third one was regular Ben. That was my interpretation of it.

[perhapsormaybe]

3rd Ben didn't have much going for him, he seemed to be more his obsessive fan boy side.

I liked Alien Swarm, and I'm starting to suspect the writers are trying to slowly move Julie out of the picture to bring Elena in. I'm not sure I care either way, I feel romance has actually hindered the series rather than help it. Apparently the events of AS have happened, since Ben has his car...so...yeah. That happened.

Julie's a lot more understanding than I would have been. I would have tried to aim the tennis ball at Ben at least once, and rather than storm off I would have either dumped him or kicked him. ...Or both, but then I'm not very nice.

I did feel like the writers were making fun of themselves a bit, such as the "I'm Ben Classic" line...anyone else feel like that was a shout out to the complaints that the differences in personality between 10 year old Ben and 15 year old Ben were too much? (because everyone knows you don't mature as you age! That would be silly!)

[dragonelf]

I thought this episode was great. It was definitely one of the funniest episodes and I constantly laughed throughout the episode (causing me to miss some lines, so I'll have to go back and rewatch it).

What surprised me was when Gwen used her powers against the girls. I can understand why (even I wanted to punch them in the face though not quite as much as I wanted to punch Jerk!Ben), but it still seemed harsh to use alien powers against regular humans.

Still, great episode. I'm looking forwards to next week's.

[perhapsormaybe]

I actually loved her using her powers...I thought Julie was going to hit them with a tennis ball (yes, I'm obsessed with that idea), but it was nice to have *someone* get those girls out of the way. They annoyed me.

[dragonelf]

They annoyed me too... Julie hitting them with the tennis ball would have been excellent. Sweet, sweet revenge.