User blog:Diotoir the son of nemesis/Ranking the Series 4 Heats

I love Series 4. It is the pitch perfect Series of Robot Wars, something that yet has been replicated, although Series 10 did try! Now a while back HogWild made a list for Series 3, I did a brief ranking of my own in the comments and since then the idea of ding the same but with Series 4 has been in my mind. Originally I aspired to do a ranking of EVERY episode from Series 4 but I had already done mu top three during my Alltime favourite episodes list so just concentrating on Heats makes things less predictable. Now to compete with my other list the "Top ten lovable losers" here is my ranking of all 16 Heats of Series 4, from least favourite to most favourite.

16. Heat C
It's no surprise that this Heat is dead last, I mean almost every can agree this Heat was disappointing. Coming off of Heat O from Series 3, one the most entertaining and brilliant episodes from that Series, it's clear that the producers wanted to replicate that with Firestorm and Diotoir being added alongside a powerful flipper bot and group of "easy targets" However, behind the scenes troubles and a weight problem cripple Diotoir who ends up in the worst fight in its career until the first World Series battle (at least in that one it moved and used its disc!) Firestorm does admitting have a better role, starting off with a fantastic melee...but that's where it goes downhill because, well, that round 2 battle...the Heat Final was decent though! We then have the other robots...Ming 2 certainly was more improved and was the best of the Ming machines (why they tried to copy Razer later is beyond me...)but loses in a rather embarrassing way. The Morgue was just bullied throughout the entire episode and yet manages to be the Heat Finalist. Scar...OH BOY SCAR! Scar is one of those overhyped robots, a robot that the production crew REALLY WANTED to be a decent and work. It wasn't helped by the whole "it can take on Hypno-Disc" fiasco as well. However, Scar proved to be a bit shit by have the drive power of a snail, a weapon that I honestly don't know even span! and it died after round 1 because it thought it could take on Hypno-Disc...lol. Then there's Bolt From the Blue. BftB manages to have a record of being in two of Robot Wars' worst fights of all time, even Foxic, FOXIC had at least one decent fight, and that's Foxic! BftB team were also infamous for being salty buggers who didn't like to lose despite their machine being awfully under powered.

I guess aside from the Firestorm melee and the Heat Final, which in turn was controversial because of the strange and incredibly bias pitting rules, the robot designs in this episode is really great. Yes, even Scar and BftB manages to be really cool looking (although Scar's official images was always strange to look at because of the angle) something that the whole for Series 4 benefits from.

As bad a Heat C is, it is better that the Celebrity Special and the Tag Team, in fact I'd dare say it's better than the other bad Robot Wars episode. Trust me I'd rather watch heat C over and over again than watch any episode from Series 9 for example. But the main issue is the disappointing outcome to what was proposed. I remember when I was really young being really upset with this episode because of how much I loved Diotoir and how great the Series 3 Heat was. It lacks any real umph and is a slow crawl, even the pinball and SUMO couldn't save this episode...