That opening teaser was cool, and it looks like Vilgax is back to being the resident implacable man.
Wait for it...GHOSTFREAK! His design is kept the same too, and Jeff Bennett's is does quite well as a replacement to Blum.
Okay, I can buy Vilgax following the Galactic Code, but saving a child just seems strange.
Oh yes, because everything went perfectly fine last time Ghostfreak was in the Omnitrix... (also, my hatred of Ben's new attitude continues).
Ghostfreak is offically my new favorite transformation sequence.
Vilgax vs. Ghostfreak: Awesome. Seriously, that's was one of my favorite fights in the entire show.
Cheering for Vilgax. Never thought I'd see that. Does it feel weird to anyone else that Vilgax was practically the hero of the episode?
I'm really not sure what to make of Vilgax's noble villan routine. Though at least part of his new characterization feels like taking the warrior stuff the pop-up episodes (or so I've read, I didn't actually see the pop-up marathon) to its logical extreme.
Liked the ending teaser, though I'm not sure whether that meant Vilgax and Ghostfreak were working together, Vilgax expected Ghostfreak to go for his home planet and manipulated things from there, or if he just planned to get the secrets of the Omnitrix and nothing else.
Final Thoughts:
Good episode, with some foreshdowing I'm looking forward to, and one of the more arc heavy episodes we've seen in awhile.
to Vilgax, he was 'a master of the Omnitrix', but here he has to see Ghostfreak for its secrets. What was up between Squid-Head and Vapor Trail anyway?
Even in the original series Vilgax didn't seem to know everything about the watch, Vilgax mentioned Ben constantly surprising him with new forms as a reason for his defeat in Ben 10,000. Ghostfreak being inside the Omnitrix for so long would probably be privy to info Vilgax wouldn't know.
