User blog comment:SpaceManiac888/Rusty Spanner of the Episode: Series 10, World Series, Episode 1/@comment-9751413-20171231233922/@comment-2118191-20180101055941

I wouldn't really call those foreshadowing either. "Obviously backfiring" is subjective, since there's very little way of knowing if a weapon will backfire or work (like Tornado's cage in Series 6), and just talking to a team doesn't really mean anything if they're just having a random conversation - heck, the "dream to win Robot Wars" was previously attributed to Iron Awe in Series 4. It got nowhere close.

Actual foreshadowing is like what they did at the end of each episode of Series 10, where they flat out highlighted the robot that would go on to win, except for the last heat where they revealed the top three.