User blog comment:SpaceManiac888/Rusty Spanner and Golden Wrench of the Decade (2010s)/@comment-25770073-20200101140115/@comment-25770073-20200101163131

If the segments like the Daedalus Mk 1 was in a educational program such as Gadget Show for example it'd make sense and would be perfectly fin. The problem I and seemingly a large portion of Robot Wars Fans (which seemingly includes the whole of Reddit...) is that it just doesn't belong on Robot Wars and honestly, rewatching Series 8 and 9 recently has only further made these segments feel more awkward and random (e.g. they're placed during the head to heads but in a seemingly random time). I'm glad you can see positivity in it, it's obviously one of the least liked things in the reboot based on what I remember reading (I mean, people really raged about it on the live watches and some tuned out!), but I would argue if the segments were removed from the episodes, would you be missing anything? No you wouldn't. That is why it is filler. I think at the end of the day, it kinda lies within the atmosphere issue and is a tiny issue in a grand scheme of the reboot, as it seemed the production crew were all over the place with what they wanted and that was perhaps one of those issues, they wanted it to be entertaining, but at the same time wanted to make it dramatic and educational and comedic and family friendly and futuristic and robotic and engaging the young and engaging women and this that and other, as a result it sort of created a mess. Something I always think about when debating the reboot is the Behind the Scenes/First Great War specials whereby the production crew had a clear vision and simply stated they wanted it to be entertaining whilst "being a sport of "now" not the sport of the future" that for me is where they screwed up, they should have kept it simple and straight to the point instead of overly complex. Or at least that's my thoughts :P