User blog comment:SpaceManiac888/Rusty Spanner of the Episode: Series 10, Heat 5/@comment-979907-20171127110838

1. A crummy lineup This was probably the worst episode of Robot Wars reboot so far, just edging out Carbide's s9 heat. I place blame for that entirely with the terrible lineup. If you didn't predict a Magnetar/Thor heat final with Magnetar winning, you were being deliberately contrarian or were on Discord mocking me for not considering Coyote was an All-Star. This heat would've been infinitely more exciting had Aftershock or Gabriel or Big Nipper replaced Expulsion, Hobgoblin or Push to Exit. Instead, we got great robots with minimal exposure and terrible robots with overexposure. Is cramming all the grand finalists into one heat actually making for better TV, or does Carbide just beat all the good robots early and we end up with Expulsion and Trak-tion in the melee. I worry that bland episodes like this are what gets a show low ratings. It's hard to tell people to tune in and watch Hobgoblin fail to self-right. Despite what people may call it, this isn't Series 3!

2. An awful editor This can cover a few of the grievances below. First of all, who thought showing Sethu Vijayakumar saying "no doubt at all" about a judges decision before going into the highlight reel was a good idea? Who watched the edited broadcast, saw Dara's bizarre joke about Prince and Hobgoblin and said "yes, that is a worthwhile use of two minutes"? Who chose to cut to a shot of Jason and Ellis while you can hear the bangs and crashes of the fight off screen? The classic wars, and even Series 8 and 9, didn't have this terrible direction.

3. Bad stock robots. It's hard to imagine Harpy or Infernal Contraption doing any worse than Coyote or Hobgoblin. Heavy Metal would've brought some colour and fragile wheels and classic series pedigree, Foxic would've at least had Craig Danby to love hating. Or Te can't have been a worse flipper than Push to Exit. The show picked the wrong robots to sub in.