User blog comment:SpaceManiac888/Rusty Spanner of the Episode: Series 10, Grand Final/@comment-979907-20171204093105

I have severely mixed emotions about this fight. I don't deny that objectively, taking out my dislike for Carbide and Eruption, it was an outstanding episode with as many as three of the greatest fights of all time. Nuts 2 beating Carbide was one of the best feelings I've had in the history of my Robot Wars fandom. But I'm going to point out my negative feelings because they are still there.

3. Carbide v Nuts 2 rematch. They just couldn't let the dream live more than half an hour. Nuts 2 beating Carbide should've been the apex of their career - in fact, it is. But the show drew two rematches instead of the far more interesting Behemoth/Carbide and Nuts/Eruption rematches. Carbide beat Nuts 2 with the guard (and you can consider this a support of Jim's vote about Nuts guards) and promptly crushed my soul. Imagine if Diotoir beat Tornado and then Tornado somehow ran into them again before the heat final. That's how that felt.

2. Repeat Grand Final. Despite every attempt to twist and turn to keep this final apart, we ended up with the Grand Final rematch of Series 9 aka Heat Final rematch of Series 10 Heat B. As soon as Nuts 2 broke apart I tuned out of the episode.

1. That damn foreshadowing. Just as it was in Heat 1 with Behemoth's campaign and Heat 4 with Nuts being taken seriously, if you didn't see an Eruption win coming you weren't listening hard enough. This one was harder to assume because we saw it so decisively three times already, but the way the show beat us over the head with Michael's childhood dream and Carbide's struggles soon eradicated my doubt. Cherry on top was the announcement, where Angela literally hugged Michael and asked about his dreams while Dara asked Carbide if they were going to retire. No surprise, no suspense, and just an unnecessary step.