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THE REVIEW
I watch each episode with my own commentary, often pausing the scenes to get my words out without having to talk over the episode, and also to point out and analyze the show's art and animation. I have seen each episode already growing up, so these reviews are to compare and contrast the five categories listed below.
PLOT (Scaled from 1 to 5 Points)
The foundation of the episode. Uniqueness and overused tropes are taken into account, but it is also judged on how well it tells the story of the episode. An episode can score a 5 even with a basic/ cliche plotline as long as it has good pacing, worthy use of its tropes, and feels well-polished. An episode can lose points due to plotholes, uneven storytelling, and relying too heavily on cliches to do the work for it.
CHARACTERIZATION (Scaled from 1 to 5 Points)
How well the characters are written. Do they feel like themselves compared to the grand narrative of the franchise? Are the supporting or one-off characters interesting, or pure plot devices? Did the humor land? Did the actions and character motivations make sense?
VISUALS (Scaled from 1 to 5 Points)
Basically, everything that happens on-screen. Character Design. Animation. Backgrounds. Creative mechanics and solutions. If there is CGI or digital effects added, how well do they blend into the show, and were they used as an enhancement, or a crutch?
IMPORTANCE (Scaled from 1 to 5 Points)
This includes, but is not strictly based on, how important the episodes are to the current story arc (if there is one) or the general narrative of the Ben 10 Franchise. Points can also be awarded for how impactful the episode was, or how favored/ important it is to the general Ben 10 fanbase. I ask myself, "If I skipped this, would I be missing out on the 'Ben 10 Experience?' "
ENTERTAINMENT (Scaled from 1 to 5)
Pretty much the most important part of developing a tv show. You can be perfect in all four of the previous categories, but the episode can still be boring. On the flip side, the episode can be absolute garbage, but still an enjoyable watch. How likely would you be to put this episode on if you were in the mood to watch Ben 10?
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in 5yls ending have paradox offer everyone a gumball lol
YES , my man paradox, love this guy so much, he is in my top 3 Ben 10 Characters!
cool haircut hopefully doesn’t sound strange coming from a stranger
Can you really call Gwen being an anodite a retcon? Mana is often referred to as the fuel for casting spells while people like hex can tap into it anodite are it, it’s like channeling the Phoenix force from marvel vs the Phoenix force itself; in this case idk since Gwen is a hybrid
I want to know who would win in a fight
"You mean how do I move so quickly? It's called walking."
My favorite joke in all of Alien Force
Paradox is just awesome
@@duncananderson2113 I also love the line "Of course I went insane. But I eventually got bored of that, too."
Af has the opposite problem of omniverse
People always talk about Omniverse funny moments without mentioning the serious ones, and people always talk about af serious moments without mentioning the funny ones. Af is so darn funny, Kevin 11 is unironically one of the funniest superhero characters ever.
I feel like Professor Paradox's story is so intriguing that he could get an entire spinoff series in which we'd see the events from his perspective. That sounds like something with a lot of potential.
Totally agree, it would be a great spin-off. That and a Plumbers spin-off with a young grandpa Max.
@TheGlassesPro, Neat.
yeah
@TheGlassesPro sounds great.
@TheGlassesPro 5. What If Ben got the AF Roster on the classic Series and Vice-Versa
I love Paradox, he just casually does God-like feats, and every episode with him is unskippable
He did say time traveling is for immortals/gods and fools
@@abbyhurd He should know, he was both.
My question is how tf I got here fell I sleep on outoplay and I woke up to this man telling me about a Ben 10 ep
@@fxwizard6421 pfft nice
@@fxwizard6421 Paradox choreographed that)
R.I.P David McCallum.
Thank you for voicing Paradox and You will be truly missed.
He will
@@sagesixparties7217or is it will have been? Time travel is confusing
@@alvhawk4461😕
I didn't know. When did he pass away?
Oh no I didn’t knew he passed RIP
Imagine this from Hugo’s perspective.
You’re a lab assistant who got hooked up into messing with space time. Your experiment went haywire and a giant donut sucked in your whole lab and your partner, only for a dinosaur to pop out of nowhere and save you, before telling you in perfect english to trust him letting your partner get yeeted into the void. The dinosaur then disappears and fifty years later, while visiting the facility, you come across your partner, who hasn’t aged a day, and he casually takes you for a cosmic joyride because he’s now a god.
And in the first timeline
He became a weird time monster trying to find help or figuring out what’s wrong with him then you see three kids and try to ask for help and they run and fight
The paradox episode genuinely terrified me as a kid. The transdimentional creature was so scary, like... the idea of a man being trapped in or outside time, who just wants help but rapidly ages up everything he comes in contact with, not to mention his terrifying design and sound. Love it
I found it sad for Hugo. If he was just looking for help and couldn't stop aging things and didn't know why it was happening, it would have been terrifying. I wonder if Paradox decided to take the younger Hugo/aged Hugo down, and taught him about the way time works (outside of time of course don't want the guy dying because it's taking over 100 years to explain the basics). Paradox is immortal because his existence is fully separated from reality/time, but Hugo or someone else bound to a time stream would possibly still age and die eventually despite his understanding of time mechanics.
@@Birthday1313 would paradox be able to freeze's hugo's aging so paradox can have a friend to walk through eternity?
@@ianr.navahuber2195 possibly!
YES!
It was extra Dimensional creature not transdimensional
If only Dwayne McDuffie could've fulfilled his desire to write a Dr.Who episode, that would've been something fantastic to watch and remember!
Someone write some Ben 10/Doctor Who fanfic in honor of Dwayne!
Don't know how Dwayne would feel now with doctor who With its writers not treating the fans with respect
@@DavidJames-mr6rd he's a fan too so he'd probably be really sad.
from what I've seen I bet I wouldve loved it, especially more than what I've heard abt the current show writer
He could have submitted story ideas to BBC Books or Virgin, or a short story to Big Finish for one of their Short Trips short story anthologies.
Paradox made Ben 10 feel so much bigger
Of course he did since he can travel throughout the multiverse and even alternate timelines
*_GIGGITY_*
When this episode dropped, Doctor Who was in the David Tennant years, where it was getting real popular, and where I was so in to it, I watched marathons regularly. So when I watched it, I instantly loved it, it's one of the best love letters to the show, while being it's own thing. In Omniverse, he even goes through a Time War, and dresses like a Pertwee/McGann mix, rather than a slight nod to Tennant's design with a suit and long coat.
(Also, I have to point out, David McCallum is a musician and composer and his most famous track, The Edge, was later sampled by Dr. Dre to give us to classic "The Next Episode"... It's just wild to know that in a way, Paradox has a connection to the phrase: "Smoke weed everyday".)
Hey your generation west the guy who posts voice actors and characters.
So 10th Doctor..
Travel time every day
Well I tried
Burn one for my boy Paradox
To be honest the acceleration monster is quite interesting. It isn't just fast but whatever it touches ages rapidly. Possibly the most dangerous abilty ever which probably hasn't been used as much cause. It's extremely overpowered or hasn't be utilised well.
Clockwork could use it
@@M3N04 true to you both.
“MADE IN HEAVEN”
@@ninjajack6457 I mean. That just accelerates time all around it. Doesn't have to make contact with anything. Plus it sorta serves a different purpose
Yup that was scary tbh I was just 8 😂
Professor Paradox is such a mysterious and amazing character. The guy made the Celestials Sapiens create a law that doesn't even let him get close to them, imagine what someone has to do to make Gods want to keep away from you
Wild guess: be really annoying
The Seventh Doctor pretty much waged war on eldritch beings called Elder Gods for a time. He’s got a great speech when up against a lesser one.
“No, not a man. Not a human being. I am complex space-time event. I am Lord President of Gallifrey. The Traveller from Beyond Time. I am the Sandman! The Oncoming Storm! I am the Ka Faraq Gatri; Destroyer of Worlds! And sometimes, only sometimes, I am your worst nightmare.”
Um, no. He broke his own rule by literally standing on a giant Celestialsapien mother.
@@coyraig8332 Probably a good guess.
Eon: I will erase you professor.
Professor paradox: empty threats to a living paradox
probably one of the few death battles ever i actually liked.
@@diamond_dude1063 Which one? I don't watch many death battles nowadays.
@@titanslayer8458 reverse flash vs goku black. go watch it, it's quite interesting.
@@diamond_dude1063 Ok, thanks.
@@diamond_dude1063 i liked many but yeah ben 10 db was very uncreative for a channel like DB
To be honest , this was the first ever time-travel related thing I watched as a child and it really blew my mind back then and got me really interested into time travel related Stories . Also professor paradox was such a brilliant character , such a beautiful episode .
I agree with you on that
Same. And I agree about paradox. Tbh he's probably the most memorable character that isn't ben, gwen, max, or Kevin
Yeah, at least with professor paradox they handled time travel kind of well.
I think the 1st episode for me was SB129 from spongebob, I was a little over 3 then, on top of catdog 3,001, or future catdog, again, a little over 3. This episode was the 3rd.
@morganrussman since Paradox exists outside of time, just imagine if he were to meet squidward in nowhere 😂
"When Kevin's car gets broken"
Kevin: ah shit here we go again
His insurance premiums must be outrageous.
I understood that reference
My week never feels complete without my weekly dose of "Ben 10 Breakdown".
@ozzyPURPLE yes, but many of us skipped that week of time, so it's okay.
Would you like some cheese?
@ozzyPURPLE yeah, but sadly I am out.
For being a big reference, paradox is probably one of the most significant characters to be introduced in this entire franchise
Yeah cuz he is the in universe reason the franchise even hapens.
Weird how the most Consistent Characters in the Franchise are Paradox and Kevin
a lot of their lines are golden yet their personalities stay the same while still gaining character development which a shame couldn't have been the same for Ben, and Gwen has a few hickups here and there but also stays pretty consistent after season 3 of Alien Force
Kinda ironic that the guy called Paradox is somehow the most consistently written character.
Kevin isn’t as consistent though
@@axelnilsson5124 I feel like in Omniverse his personality gets kinda watered down, no more clever quips etc
Paradox is by far my favourite side-character in the series (sorry Max), I'm not even a Doctor Who fan, I just really enjoy his character and how much different he is from anything else in the show. Anything involving Paradox I just really enjoy and honestly his introduction episode itself also is probably my favourite in AF, maybe even out of all of them.
Just such a joy whenever he is on screen or involved in the plot (even if the plot itself is kinda dumb). So glad he becomes a recurring character and isn't left to be a once and forgotten instance.
Max is a side character??
@@GreaterGrievobeast55 After OS I would consider him a side character even if he is a very major one
Paradox is honestly one of the best characters in the whole franchise
He’s so underrated and powerful I mean he was able to force Ben out of alien X
the best*
sorry grandpa max and kevin, i love you guys too.
We need professor paradox spin off
@@zenosama8505 because ultimatrix, he teleported ben to another place, made ultimatrix function that.
The scene where Paradox shows the trio the destroyed future Earth is probably a direct reference to a similar scene in Doctor Who: Pyramids of Mars (1975), in which the Doctor shows his companion what would happen if they failed in the past and they end up on a wasted Earth. Pyramids of Mars also the same episode that the 'I walk in eternity' line comes from.
I also think his use of the chalkboard to visualise the timeline is another reference to a different doctor, Dr Emmet Brown, from a scene in Back to the Future Part II.
Also Turn left now that I think about it
I agree with you though, Paradox is awesome not because he has super space time powers, but just because he learned enough to make that his super space time powers. The only thing he really has going for him is agelessness. Everything else was just patience, a bit of hard work and good memory. He's basically a lawyer of reality. He knows all the laws and all the ways to make them work for him.
It's really a natural progression. Today we know how to make electricity. Easily and somewhat effortlessly by our perspective. Compared to someone 2000 years ago, it would be a super power.
As both a Ben 10 fan and doctor who fan, I love this episode
Absolutely fantastic
nice
Yup absolutely
same
I hope they replace chris chibnall
I hope David enjoys his behind the scenes look at eternity now. Rest in peace.
Another thing that Alien Force introduced was Paradox and that's a good thing. He's such a chaotic ball of energy who just captures the screen so much.
Such an interesting episode.
As a fan of Ben 10 and Doctor Who, this episode was such a delight!
Same!!! 😊
same here man!! when I first watched this episode. I did not know what Doctor Who was. the only thing I knew a good while later were the weeping angels.
but now seeing this and all. I can say Paradox is not just a really neat character with his own backstory and all. but his the inspiration of him is just a amazing love letter.
to Doctor Who. and I'm proud of that. I love both Ben 10 and Doctor Who. they are both great in their own ways.
SAME! Paradox is one of my favorite characters
Same
My favourite episode of Season One on Alien Force.
Paradox became a huge part of the franchise.
Agree, Foreshadowing the future.
@@vilgaxtheconqueror and the multiverse
Kuro: The hologram is facing the wrong way again
Me: Or it's facing the right way, and the hologram facing ben is the error
OH SHI-
dang it! I keep trying to make the proposal that the hologram can adjust directions like a an Iphone screen if you tilt it but it never gets traction.
Rip Sir you are loved, remembered and will live on forever in our minds and hearts
Goodbye David
17:26 -> 17:43
What you're describing is potentially the Quantum Zeno Effect, which by what seems to be sheer coincidence is also the inspiration for "Quantum Locking," the ability of the infamous Weeping Angels in Doctor Who to only exist frozen in time when perceived. The coincidence was so immense I spent this entire section of the video expecting a Weeping Angel based punchline, or for an image of one to slowly fade in whilst the explanation was happening, but nope! Just a cosmic coincidence XD
Damn, had I known, I totally would've done that!!
i feel like its good that paradox doesnt appear that often, his appearences are more inpactful that way and he appearing too much can take away his impact
Yeah i like that he doesn't appear much because everytime he does appear it makes me think that the situation is dire ,even the future hints he gives seem more impactful like whwn he warned Ben about Old George and the creature from beyond
OMG, I love your theory of parodox realizing his name's origin. It adds a HUGE layer of depth to the character where he's always playing with time like it's a puzzle cube. It totally adds to his quirky personality. I love this sooo much!
In the Gwen episode she Time travels paradox makes jokes with her knowing that everything would be fine
It's great to end my Fridays with a Ben 10 breakdown. It's 7pm here in South Africa I don't know what time it is in America. And as a doctor who fan professor Paradox is my favorite character in the entire series
10:54 am my time
Where I live it's 1pm, almost 2pm to be more exact since it's 1:57
In nigeria like 6pm
The thing about something only existing when its being observed is a misunderstanding of wave-particle duality. In layman's terms, when a particle's exact position is uncertain (aka it's not being directly observed) it exists as a wave function that is the sum total of all possible quantum states. So take an electron that's in an empty box that can't be looked inside. While its unobservable that electron does not exist as a defined particle but rather as a collection of probabilities that form the wave function, describing all fundamental properties of the electron: its energy, position, velocity, momentum etc.
that's too deep for me. I'm gonna have to go watch an uncle grandpa episode now.
I try to wrap my head around this as the thing does exist with some single position and velocity, we just can't tell where and what respectively (at least at the same time) so it needs a more vague definition of "exists" to understand it.
Do I need to readjust, or is this basically it?
It's also a big common misconception that "observation" means "being seen by a human". Observation in this context means more like "being tested on".
@@Snowyy201 Thank you
@@Snowyy201 Observation means more like "quantum energy state constrained" ie whether or not an electron emits a photon is determined by if the energy of its gained acceleration was enough for it to move an energy state, and this discretises probability space "observing" the constrained wavefunction into a single result. That is my understanding anyway.
Professor Paradox was a great character, I loved all his appearances and the funky stuff the involved. Also the restraint he showed in keeping everything progressing as it had to, or at least was the most optimal outcome. When fighting the DNAliens it would've been so simple for him to calmly walk through tapping their shoulders and turning everyone into babies. But he didn't, because the heroes had their own solution and needed to become defenders in their own right.
You guys at the ink tank really do make the Ben 10 community alive thank you guys
I remember going through the McDuffie forums, someone asked if old Kevin’s design didn’t have Aggregor’s horns because he was half human. McDuffie just said that they just hadn’t thought of the antlers for Osmosians yet. The implied confirmation that an older Kevin should have them, and the specification that they’re antlers and not horns, always stuck with me.
You know, him calling Ben 'Young Ben', means he's always 'aware' of the main timeline. It means much like how we know what we watch is the main story, their reality itself works that way, and entities like Paradox know it. Ultimate Ben, Ben 10k, they are all parallel worlds Paradox can easily visit, but they aren't the 'Main' reality. It might be somewhat like the cosmology of DC and the MCU where some universes have a bigger impact on the multiverse than others do.
I think the only time we see *Prime Ben* is in Omniverse's episodes where Paradox is talking with him, as he is the only one reference as the *trunk* (though the trunk can refer to all the timelines that run in direct parallel to the Prime universe). The branches are universe timelines that take drastic turns, where the leaves are stand alone *what ifs* that do not affect the time stream of a timeline to full split it off into another timeline possibly.
Paradox definitely knows his name. The first rule of the dr is he lies. Paradox has no reason to tell anyone his real name but accepted his name came from Gwen calling him paradox the first time they met for our Ben and Gwen. Paradox remember Hugo's name so he wouldn't forget his own and even if he did he would eventually end up somewhere with someone who would know his real name.
The "Things only exist when observed" is the basis of quantum theory and whilst it technically only really holds true (as far as we know) for small things like atoms and electrons sci-fi likes to broaden its use to everything a lot of the time (which we can't disprove completely so go for it).
I think the most well known example would be schrodinger's cat
The confusion comes in that when we say "observed" we don't really mean "looked at" so much as we poked it with a stick to see if it was there.
I really am glad that this episode got a perfect 25/25 and I do like the fact that they show Paradox’s omnipotence was a result of him being smart enough to be able to just figure out and do things. It’s really a testament to how knowledge is power, and here it’s taken in a more literal sense since it shows that someone did get the knowledge and in turn became one of the most powerful beings in the universe if not multiverse.
Paradox is definitely my favorite character from the series, he so interesting and mysterious and so dang funny
24:05 - To be fair Gwen's absolutely right, she's not an energy being she just has the "spark" of one.
Biologically speaking she's 100% Human.
I was thinking that, like he’s kinda demeaning her human self and it seems like to her that he’s referring to her as an energy being as if that’s all there is to her
Professer Paradox. I didn't care about this guy when I was a kid. But the older I got the more I grew to love his dry, sarcastic humour.
Ahhh yes,
My first ever exposure to the concept of TimeTravel, this episode’s concept was surprisingly easy to understand and was pretty smooth with it’s approach. It gave me a good idea of Time travel and its implications for any other franchise.
I’m glad someone did, because I’m still a bit lost.
26:24 Paradox basically knew the future of the franchise from day one with saving the universe and Ben's multiple personality and intelligence rewrites.
I want to think the industry professionals thought long and hard about how executives might change the show, though it could have just been a Ben 10,000 reference before they really got into the multiverse shenanigans
Paradox has never been cooler than in his debut episode. The Paradox that casually walks between points in space and time without blue flashes is the truest in my opinion
In a program my college offers I attened when I was smaller, I took a class on the Classic Doctors. As a fun little surprise for us kids, our professor/teacher brought in Jelly Babies for us kids to try.
It was a big highlight of that class (along side getting to meet K-9 and getting to "hop in the TARDIS") and a real treat!
I love how when Gwen says the line naming him paradox you can just see it in his face that’s he’s like “ohhhh that’s why everyone has been calling me that”
Paradox is definitely one of my favorite characters in the show. I love how calm and jokey he can be, while also being a bit cryptic when desired. Dude's just plain awesome.
Paradox is my second favorite Ben 10 character, between Kevin and Azmuth. I always love a character who has a vast amount of intelligence and power... but is still very reserved and down to earth with it. He has the ability to give all the answers, but rather chooses to stand aside and let things pass. He jokes, he trolls, he's still very human. Just... able to conceive all of time and space and bend it how he chooses.
Hey InkTank, I don’t know if you’ve thought of this already but I thought that when you do the breakdowns for Ultimate Alien, the frame around the video could be red. I think this would work for 2 reasons.
1. Red is the Main colour for Albedo, the character who created the Ultimates in the first place and not to mention that the Ultimate Aliens were brought back in Omniverse with Albedo, so his primary colour would be a good fit for a breakdown of a show centred around his creations.
2. And in “The Ultimate Sacrifice” Not only is Albedo mentioned but the sentient Ultimates’ eyes glow red in stead of green and not to mention the giant pit of red fire in the same episode.
All and all it seems that Red is the defining colour of the term “Ultimate” in the Ben 10 universe.
(Also red is just a cool colour)
Yeah, that’s a good one to keep up with the most associated colour theme. I know it’s a while away but what colour do you think Omniverse would have? I was thinking perhaps an orange or a brownish-yellow, I seem to notice that colour in the backgrounds a lot
@@Bertiboy yea that colour scheme could work, but i think just a regular yellow or even gold would work just as well, because Green, Red, Blue and Yellow are all heavily associated with each other. And Yellowish shades just appear a lot in Omniverse.
Yellow could be better, since that's when he uses the Scan Mode more often
As both a fan of Ben 10 and Doctor Who I wonder how a crossover would play. I’d love to see how the Doctor and paradox interact.
i imagine that both the doctor and paradox would roast each other
I imagine they might give each-other a mighty headache as their highly advanced minds start comprehending each other's impacts on the nature of time and how each other would react to such comprehension and the reactions to the reactions and so on, in some sort of hyperexponential growth in complexity as multiple interacting timelines tangle with eachother causing ever growing mutually self-reinforcing ripples of complexity that even if their minds do have the capacity to process would still involve a hugely accelerated growth of processing being used to calculate infinity to the power of infinity ad infinitum...
I really love how they do time travel and teleportation in this episode. Each one is a jarring camera cut even if they’re just jumping a few minutes ahead in time. Every time it happens you know something’s off but it takes a second for your mind to click and realize they’re in a new location which I think is really fun and creative. It almost feels dream-like with how nonsensical it is and how Paradox just goes along with it. I also love how the main trio is surprised each time it happens and you get to see their expressions of confusion which I think really adds to the entertainment when both you and the main cast have the same reaction.
I’m really sad that they don’t do this in future episodes and opt to just use a blue portal shining effect instead. Like yeah, it probably saves time on trying to come up with creative camera cuts to show how jarring Paradox’s time travel is for other characters and subsequently the audience, but I think that’s a shame since this episode’s storyboards really hone in on how to pull the audience into this strange situation with clever use of film techniques.
A Dwayne McDuffie season of Dr Who would've been incredible
It took me a while to realize this but my interpretation of the monsters design is basically that its a person who moves through time with out stopping, like if I filmed a person running with a stationary camera, and when they move, every frame that they move, an image of them lingers, stretching them out to be like a worm. Except this is 3D this monster moves and yet always exists on where he has been because he always exists in the past and present simultaneously. Amazing character design.
This easily one of the best alien force episodes easily. and one of the greatest characters in all of Ben 10 hands down
The thing you're referring to was half right. It's a principle of quantum mechanics known as Quantum Superposition, which states that any two quantum states that are added together will form a new, valid quantum state (and subsequently, any quantum state can also be split into 2 separate valid states). Therefore, if a physical system can be in numerous configurations, the most generalized state will be the combination of all of the possible configurations.
Most famously represented by the Shreodinger's Cat paradox but represented best by the Double Slit experiment, it shows that observing a system of particles in a quantum state will change the result simply by the act of observing it.
I like how Paradox showing off doesn't come off as you ego-boosting yourself by showing off to your friends, but rather a dad having a laugh out of showing toddlers some magic tricks
I agree with your verdict. This episode is pretty much perfect and I love how it introduced paradox, probably one of the most memorable characters
I've been dying to see a breakdown of this episode.
Paradox is easily my favorite Ben 10 character. I love how he uses very simple everyday logic to things that most people can't even begin to understand. Like getting bored of being insane. That kind of logic is very in line with Doctor Who which makes it no surprise that I like Paradox so much when the Doctor is one of favorite characters of all time.
Ben 10 was my childhood obsession (got back into it a year or so ago) and Doctor Who has been my main obsession since 2015, when I found out Paradox was based on DW I almost died lmao
I am so happy my fave episode got a 25/25. Paradox is my favourite character of the entire franchise (possibly excluding ben). This was a great breakdown.
14:09 There needs to be a KEVIN! compilation when this is all over.
I like how Professor P. Doesn't introduce himself as Professor Paradox, because if he did in this episode his Name would be a literal Paradox
Time travel's my favorite thing in stories too. I can't tell where my love for it started, but Ben 10 definitively did contribute to why I love it so much.
Paradox is such a good character and even after several seasons, there's still an air of mystery around him that we never really get to see blown away.
My kid self was so entranced by everything with this episode and coming back to it as an adult is such an amazing experience.
Really enforces why having a kid show written intelligently will allow it to age along with its audience and still feel fresh after all these years.
If he returns in the next series i bet they'll try to get a former Doctor actor to voice him. I'd say Peter Capaldi would be best as Paradox.
They can’t replace McCallum
@@axelnilsson5124 agreed
@@axelnilsson5124unless it’s David tennant
@@alexisislas-gonzalez5991 Tennant couldn’t replace McCallum
The bit where Paradox says "Ah, Swampfire! That takes me back." always felt really cool to me Post Omniverse because his design changed pretty drastically. In retrospect it's as though he's seeing Omniverse Ben with the UAF design, y'know?
I love how Paradox messes with Kevin I always laughed when Kevin Break through houses just to catch paradox 🤣
I am so happy you mentioned Fusion Fall! I feel like people forget about it. That game was literally a gem!
8:48 Clearly this is another Doctor Who reference, calling back to the scene in The End of Time part 1 where those two food truck workers' are eaten by the Master but their skeletons still stand complete and perfectly upright afterwards
Paradox aired before The End of Time part 1.
@@WhovianSentaiRiderFan Damn you right, my othersise completely plausible theory has been thrown out the window
"Things only exist/become real when they are observed" is a common quantum physics misconception. Relational interpretation says that observation can "decide" the result of the double-slit experiment (in which an electron passes through both slits on a plate at the same time) but, in physics terms, "observation" differs from the colloquial use. If an object is 'observed', it means that they are interacting with a medium that makes them perceivable, e.g. light. Being observed by a sentient being has nothing to do with the experiment.
Yeah, I've always been annoyed at how people take the term "observed" too literally, and start thinking it has something to be with consciousness.
Small reference that a lot of people miss here: the quartz time portal looks modeled after the Guardian of Forever, a sentient time portal from the original Star Trek episode: The City on the Edge of Forever.
The gumball are a reference to the Jelly-babies that certain versions of the doctors like to eat
I love Paradox, him just messing with everyone is my favourite character trait for him.
Due to the nature of Paradox's abilities, it is difficult to tell exactly what order the events of the series take place, from his perspective. During his introduction, he was already familiar with Ben, Gwen and Kevin, and later events in the series. His first meeting with them (Ben, Gwen and Kevin) (from his perspective) has never been shown.
I appreciate that there isn't just one Doctor on the thumbnail... it's a Pair-of-Docs... No, I won't take myself out, make me
Paradox is one of the greatest characters introduced into the Ben 10 series.
this episode is one of my favs.
Oh man i remember the Transdimensional Monster was absolitely terrifying to me and it made me scared pther characters would get deaged,it was so scary!
Paradox has always been one of my favorite characters, he conssitently always takes the spotlight, he's always so snarky but never pbnoxious or fill of himself, he jsut likes mesisng with people and i love it
Interesting that you should mention the Time Deviants in Fusionfall, as I'm currently playing through that game in one of the many fan revivals. I battled them many times in the years past before the game shut down, and even again recently with the Academy Update OpenFusion server. They had infested Ship, as well as some Nosedenians and Sonarosians I believe (Fusion versions of the Echo Echos though I think). Never put two and two together that they were one in the same, even after playing the game as many times as I have, so thanks for pointing it out!
Kuro...your hair...I- don't even know what to say anymore. I mean it's basically a highlight of the breakdowns at this point 😂
I am glad the storyboarding had fun with characters reacting to existing in a paradox.
All the little shocked expressions when they get teleported or when Kevin is unaged, just nice little details.
After typing this comment out, I realize it may have been a more interesting and novel idea in my head than in actuality, but I spent too much time writing this to not say it
I feel like for every fictional time traveling character, there's a direct correlation between how easy it is for them and how casual they act about it. This can typically be measured by how much they worry about accidentally breaking or altering the timeline.
-On the bottom end of the scale is characters in series where time travel happens in like one episode - for them, potentially changing the timeline is usually a major threat to avoid, and can usually make up the plot of an episode
-On the lower end you get characters who have been sent through time for some specific mission - it's harder to pin these down, though, because usually they won't be worried about changing the timeline when they go back intending to change the timeline. Still, for a lot these stories, going back in time to change things is usually treated seriously, and is often a difficult task
-Towards the middle of the scale you get characters like Doc Brown or the Flash, who have fairly direct access to means of time travel, but are still inside the timeline, and so are at risk themselves if they damage or alter it, so there is still some worry, but they also have the means to correct it if need be
-On the higher end you get to most "time police" styled organizations and characters like The Doctor - where time travel is fairly simple, and often these characters aren't as worried about damaging the timeline themselves because they're usually working to fix it
-This area also has a lot of villain characters who have easy access to time travel, who aren't worried about damaging the timeline because they simply don't care if they do.
-At the top you reach characters like Paradox, for whom time travel is trivial. These characters are often above or outside the timeline, and can interfere where and whenever they want. There's usually at least one scene of them perfectly and effortlessly dodging a series of attacks to show just how powerful they are.
-There's also probably some extra tier for gods/celestial beings that actually control time itself
*This scale does not apply well to characters who time travel only to the future, and as such do not risk changing the past
Also for Paradox trusting Ben, from his point of view he already knows him so he has probably seen him come up with a ton of things that worked in the end and that why he trusts him so easily
Yea looking back, that temporal monster is one of the creepiest, most creative designs through the entire continuity
I liked paradox and the fact that he can sometimes fight like that time jump acceleration he used once against the high breed fodder
God this episode is so amazing. I love time travel and multiverse stuff and paradox is easily my favourite character
This is an awesome Ben 10 episode with Paradox being the greatest character of the franchise.
I think that since Ben can now change back without timing out, it allows them to utilize his aliens without always incorporating a fight. No surprise time outs, no Ben getting stuck in human form to finish a fight his alien started, etc. And I can't say I have any problems with that
I believe the theory you're trying to reference is called Superpositioning. And I think that's reflective of the shift in Ben 10, the original didn't deny the existence of magic but it had this sort of soft sci-fi/magic feel to it, but Alien Force and onward all the following series had a more hard sci-fi structure to them, at least that's an observation my brother made to me a few times.
23:31 I know he’s the main character as his very hero name is the show’s title, but I kinda wish they did less alternate Ben’s and put more into Kevin and Gwen’s alternate selves. I mean from what we see of the future Gwen always grew up to be this blue scarf wizard babe (alternate version Gwen 10) and Kevin either became an amalgamation of monsters sealed away in the Null void or a Plumber. Where are their alternate selves?
Personally I'm not a big fan of time travel in series or movies because every writer makes their own rules on it and they usually don't make sense. In avengers endgame they even jokingly say everything they saw in classic movies was nonsense. It's essentially just magic with scientific words thrown in. That being said, I still enjoy paradox as a character and most of the episodes he stars in and I don't necessarily hate time travel so it's always a treat to see him helping Ben and the team
Quick question, when paradox met himself on the moon. How do we know that the paradox is from the same universe/timeline? It's possible that at him entering the event horizon, every paradox just collapsed into itself.
We don’t know
So I forgot that the time vortex was destroyed in this episode, does that mean it keeps getting rebuilt whenever it shows up again later in AF and UA?
"It's factory new from 30 years ago! Paradox, I take back everything I was about to say about you!"
Definitely my favorite line from this episode.
You’re also somewhat missing the idea that paradox and Ben are similar to the doctor and River song. They don’t meet linearly time-wise, paradox is already very familiar with Ben when Ben has never met him before. Plus, it also has the interest of Paradox learning the source of his name, when River’s real name Melody was taken from Amy’s childhood friend Mels, who got her name from Amy at birth
It does make me wonder how Paradox and The Doctor would interact.
Depends on which version of the Doctor. I can imagine he'd get along well with the first and fourth Doctors.
Not sure if an intentional reference but Paradox's origin reminds me of the Master staring into the Untempered Schism. You have a person coming in coming in contact with a hole in time and being driven insane with intense knowledge and becoming hyper intelligent. The difference is Paradox eventually got past it by the time he smartened up.
Old kevin: "Well, you better start running in eternity, smart guy."
“ you’re trying to unlock a cactus” that’s probably my new favourite line.