User blog:Diotoir the son of nemesis/My own Ranking of the Reboot

As many of you may know, the ever so popular Nick Weston made a very interesting and brilliant blog (that as of writing is STILL ongoing) and I totally recommend checking it out. However, I must admit I have felt inspired (mainly due to personal disagreement with some of his placements, and my own personal opinions on some episodes) to do my own (Heck even Toast hinted he's inspired to do his own).

Now before we start, let's talk about my own thoughts of the reboot. Overall, I must admit I'm more mixed than positive about it. I hated the arena, the logo was absolutely over complicated shite, hated the shorter series we got, the lack of battle music, Sir Killalot's face (It looks less like a knight and more of a Bionicle), the obsession with making things complicated as opposed to simple and fun and well formatted seemed impossible for these bozos. Oh and the God Awful lighting/atmosphere, can't forget that!

So yeah it seems I hate the reboot...but I actually loved the robots we saw, Shunt kicked ass, there were a great range of battles and episodes, with Series 8 being decent fun and Series 10 being one of the best ever made leaving Series 9....well it's one of the two series in Robot Wars I genuinely HATE with a capital H.

So with out further ado, let's put down what I think are the worse, going to the best.

22nd: Battle of the Stars Episode 1
Like with Nicky boy, I place the disaster that is the first Battle of the Stars as my lowest. Could it have been anything else? I mean almost everyone universally hates this and its sequel and it's no surprise. The special is a reboot's version of the Series 4 special, which even I admit was the weakest part/episode of Series 4 but at least it was entertaining, I mean Killertron boxing glove being decimated, Gemini flipping Matilda and the battle between Pussycat and Diotoir is a lot of fun. This one the other hand is just plain bad, I really can't stand this episode it's one of those things that lack any entertainment value and is just boring.

The good stuff:
 * I like Interstellar MML's design, I really like the look shame it doesn't work...
 * House Robots attack just like the older (and better) days.

The dark side:
 * All battles are ether one hit KOs, slow or for better of term, boring. The worst offenders are battles like Arena Cleaner vs Interstellar MML which was a one hit kill, Jar vs The Cat where Jar basically was on top only for it to hammer too hard an kill itself (I'm not kidding!) So yeah, if you enjoy poor battles then this is one for you!
 * Boring looking robots. I understand they're stock robots but (just like the reboot in general) they didn't have any fun with these machine, no fun no interest and just...meh to admire. Sure The Cat had a face...but that's it nothing else!
 * Padding. Because the episode was filled with terrible and too short battles, they spent almost half the episode showing us better highlights from the previous series, then they repeat said highlights again and again, in slow mo maybe just to pad out the episode...What kinda annoys me personally is that they don't go and show us anything other than Series 8, why no show us stuff from the classic series, I mean it reduces the amount of times we have to see OverDozer being decimated or show us more House Robot attacks. Oh, wait the reboot wanted to stray a far from the classic series as possible...no wonders Series 10 was the best one if they actually shown care for the past.
 * The "celebrities" were almost unneeded. The issue this has over its sequel is that you could almost remove the celebrities and nothing would feel different. They're just there for the sake of being there.
 * Despite major criticism, they still didn't bother putting in any battle music...until awkwardly putting some in the final battle for no reason...
 * Lighting differs from being quite cool (literally) with a nice bluey look but then there's moments when they just had to have their awful red lights in their awful arena...old habits die hard it seems.

As you may have noticed, I haven't got much to say other than it was a uninspired and bland episode. So boring and lacking in anything substantial, it just a thing that exists and really who cares about it. It sucks, it's forgettable and lack any care, which for me is the worst offender. They just don't care. What's worse is that the Series 4 version, though weak, was still entertaining, they still had fun and they still put on a good show, something this and many other episodes will suffer from a lack of.