Made my little sibling watch Ben Ten (OS) with me for the first time and here's how it went:
We sang the theme song every single episode, I'd do the main vocals, and he'd do the little repeat lines. (We'd both do the guitar)
For some reason he could NOT get Grandpa's name right, and repeatedly called him "Uncle Ben" or "Uncle Max" for some reason???
Similarly, he struggled remembering all the aliens names at first and consequently made up his own, my favorite being "Shark Bite" for Ripjaws.
Every now and then he'd turn to me and say "good hair moment" whenever he thought the animators had drawn Ben's hair particularly well in a scene.
He now has a list on his phone titled "death row" and Dr Animo is at the top
He's a Kevin hater (it makes me cry in my soul)
His biggest complaint about not wanting to watch alien force with me now we finished the OS is that he "really doesn't want to see Ben in skinny jeans"
Pointed out to me that all the Tennysons sleep in their clothes??? I know they have pyjamas, we see them in the movie (Secret of the Omnitrix) but they never wear them :(
1 year ago today i made this little post on my twitter dot com
where i spelled fourarms as forearms which like okay suzzan
What a wild thing its ben since then, immediately all my friends loved it and it got a lot of attention at a time when my art didnt really have a lot of eyes on it And on reddit it made huuuge numbers. And i liked the idea so ofc i made a grey matter design, and a wildmutt design.. and then i just never stopped since then haha
Not only is it just a really fun series to work on, but also it brought on alot of eyeballs on my art that i never had before and gave me an actual audience. Most of them only really caring about my ben 10 stuff, some of them liking my OCs as well, all of them very appreciated though im truly grateful
In a way i have the inktank to thank for all of this, it was watching kuros breakdown of the gwen 10 episode and hearing him say oh it wouldve been cool to actually see max aliens that gave me the idea. So thanks to kuro the artist for that lol
ok, right, let me express just how much I hate power scalers, ok.
I once saw someone say that "Grandpa" Max Tennison, from Ben 10, had faster than light reaction because he blocked a laser beam.
this fucking guy
and like... yeah, OK, chief is defiantly exceptional for his age. beyond the alien tech he has access too, hes certainly limber, but like... y'all do know that laser beams in fiction don't work like the ones in real life, right? like just because IRL laser beams move at the speed of light doesn't mean this fictional ones do. like you do know that the idea that this NOMINALLY HUMAN old ass man can move faster than light is ridiculous, right?
but this is it with power scaling and people who subscribe to it. everything has to have definitive numbers drawn from the real world, even if that makes no real sense. because if it doesn't have numbers, how will we know if they beat goku?
but like... its fiction. nothing has definitive numbers. most of it is stuff that is thrown out to make the heroes look or feel cool, "realism" be damned. please read what was intended by the scene rather than the over-thought numbers you have conjured says is true.
Grandpa max cannot react faster than light. hes fast, sure, and strong, but only within the limits of a mostly normal human being within this world.