User blog comment:Hogwild94/Original Series Rusty Spanners/@comment-35435623-20180205154154

Heat C:

3. Rat trapped. Yeah, Mousetrap's seeding was just disrespectful.

2. Down you go. Shredder robbing us of a potentially very solid fight against Mousetrap. It was funny, absolutely, but give me a good tussle over a moment of humour any day.

1. The missing link. Once again, the removable link robs us of a potentially very solid fight between Stinger and General Carnage 2. Frustrating

Heat D:

3. The final countdown... as quickly as possible. Just a minor gripe, this, but still one worth mentioning. Round 1 losers are throwaway as it is. Then, in Series 5 we have the added factor of not even providing us with team interviews. To top this off, when Rohog slams into the wall, it is counted out so quickly it's almost disrespectful. What we see is Rohog getting itself into trouble. The viewing audience are wondering whether it can wriggle itself free, but before we can complete that thought the show cuts to a shot of Refbot with his counter already at '8'. Rohog is thus officially eliminated in a blink of an eye, just to further confirm that Series 5 just couldn't give damn about half of the robots in its Heats.

2. Sir Flipped-not-alot. Yeah, c'mon Graham and Alex - it's Sir Chromalot. Even you guys can toy around with this thing and provide us some more laughs from the Sir Chromalot boys.

1. First round failures. One of the most evident examples of as to why Series 5 cannot ever be my favourite series. People are kind to the terrible fights in Series 5 because they're Round 1 battles and all of the Heats get better as an episode goes on. However, it's hard for episodes not to improve when we're given the content we are so often given in Round 1. Series 5 isn't just poor robots breaking down in Round 1 which is bad enough in itself, but it's poor robots taking up a good 3/4 fights - often polluting half or just over half of the fights from an episode with discardable content. Simply unforgivable.