Check out photos of the one-hour season finale of BEN 10: ULTIMATE ALIEN Episode 19 and 20 titled “Absolute Power” which airs tonight, Friday December 10 at 7:30pm on Cartoon Network. You can read all our coverage of Ben 10: Ultimate Alien here.
Episode Synopsis: BEN 10: ULTIMATE ALIEN “Absolute Power” Season 1 Episode 19-20 – Tempers flare between Ben & Gwen as the hunt for Kevin heats up!
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This season of Ben 10 has been an odd experiment. Rather than a season-long story or a bunch of standalones, we’ve had three somewhat uneven arcs that feed into each other. In the first, Aggregor is introduced as a new arch nemesis working largely behind the scenes. In the second, Aggregor is in open conflict with Team Ben. He’s defeated, but Kevin goes off the deep end in the process. The third arc - which concludes tonight - is all about Kevin’s fall. The show has gotten dark, at least by Ben 10 standards. So how will it end? Will they chicken out and return the seat backs and tray tables into an upright and locked position, or will they get all Straczynski on us and have the situation go from bad to worse? A little from column A and a little from column B, as it turns out.
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Kevin beats up Alan in a fight. He’s one of Grandpa Max’s protégés from “Alien Force.” Kevin drains his powers, and would have killed him if not for Ben’s timely intervention. It’s strongly implied that he killed Manny and Pierce and the other members of that team, including some doctor guy we’ve never heard of before.
Ben and Gwen argue about the best way to deal with Kevin - help or kill - with Ben taking the kill option. This spills over into a super powered smack down, which Ben wins. He goes on a sleuthing spree, beating the living crap out of everyone who’s ever dealt with Kevin as a way of getting information about his whereabouts. He pounds on the Forever Knights worse than we’ve ever seen him go after anyone - they’re clearly terrified - and he seemed on the verge of seriously hurting Vulcanis before Gwen intervened.
Gwen, meanwhile, tries to get Grandpa Max to tell Ben to stand down, but Max says Ben is right. Later he calls Ben to discuss the options with him: “I put Kevin down like a mad dog, but that’s not you. You always find another way.” Well not this time. “I won’t argue with you, I just wanted to make sure you’d thought this through.”
Gwen, looking for another alternative, tracks down Mike Morningstar/Darkstar, hoping his energy-vampire powers will help them. Together with a surprisingly buff Cooper, the techno kinetic kid from “Alien Force,” (“I had a growth spurt”) they head to Los Solidad to build a trap for Kevin.
Of course getting him there is a problem, and we’re treated to an increasingly dangerous series of standoffs - Grandpa Max, Kevin’s step dad, Gwen, Ben, Cooper - it’s all a mess, a whole bunch of vulnerable people dancing right on the knife edge. Ultimately, after a massive rolling battle, Kevin is trapped in Cooper and Darkstar’s device, which drains his powers and gives them to Darkstar, who is now literally aglow with godlike powers.
“Oh, like no one saw that coming,” Ben says, and hits a kill switch that takes all the powers everyone has stolen through the season and gives them back to their rightful owners. Kevin and Gwen kiss, Ben and Kevin decide to go for a smoothie, and everyone lives happily ever after, excepting all the people Kevin killed, of course.
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