User blog comment:Diotoir the son of nemesis/Diotoir's Controversial Corner/@comment-3048006-20181119170852

I think Firestorm only really suffers in hindsight and re-watches. In Series 3 most of the battles were pretty good, and the ones that weren't had enough highlights to make them interesting fights. I think that set a good precedence for Series 4, so whilst the second half of the heat was a bit cursed, the Semi-Final and melees made up for it. In Extreme and Series 5 it did have quite a few good fights, even if a lot of them weren't really close they looked great on-screen, more theatrical than the Tornado and Razer fights, with robots flying all over the place. To be honest it was just nice to see an energetic robot from this era that worked well for the full battle. By which point I think you know if you like Firestorm or not, which gets it through Series 6 and Extreme 2 when maybe a lot of fights were clear to see the victor within the opening 15 seconds. And in Series 7, if you're like me you're routing for the veterans anyway.