User blog:ClassAct/Robot Wars 2016: Apprehensive

So the time has nearly come; Robot Wars - the greatest show on television of my and our childhoods - is coming back.

Ask me last November, do you think it will come back? I'd of said - no, no way. It has been too long and, besides, it'll never work the way it used to. You see, 1997 - 2005 was a much more simpler time. The internet was not so vast as it is now. Not *everybody* was connected to each other almost instantly via social media. And, the only way you could get your opinion across to one another, was telling your best mate that the judges had gotten that Storm II v. Typhoon final all wrong. Alas, none of my friends were into Robot Wars as enthusiastically as I were.

This is where I grow a little apprehensive about the re-boot, in this day and age, of our much loved, of a show with so much history and excitement that we want to feel the same way we felt it in 1999. Is it really a good idea to bring it back, with the Robot wars name?

British television, in my opinion, since the boom of the hashtag, since the rise of reality shows and the increase of competition based - Dermot O'Leary presented TV shows, television in 2016 has become pretty *corny*. The presenters, the layout and the whole vibe just sends me cringing. Now, rewind 12 years, a social-norm's opinion on our beloved show might describe is as 'geeksville' and experienced engineer, 40 year old's wet dream an embarrassment. You can't win if you want ratings, can you? All I'm saying, I hope to dear Alan Gribble, that Robot Wars - 2016, isn't an embarrassment and a disappointment. I will be making myself sparse from the Twitter wars and the explosion of '#carnage' '#mayhem' because quite frankly that picture makes me nauseous.

Long live Robot wars. ClassAct (talk) 11:07, May 7, 2016 (UTC)