It's back? Awesome!

LET. THE WARS. BEGIIIIIIIIIN! by Scapegrace on 2016-07-25 21:57:00 UTC Reply

Oh yes, my friends. Robot Wars is back.

My thoughts:-

- I love that the House Robots look absolutely terrifying now. They're enormous and I adore it.

- The mini-league format gives a lot more fighting in the show, which is probably why it's only six episodes long come on BBC give us back the nineteen-episode-long Wars a la the Third Wars.

- Carbide scares me. A worthy successor to Hypno-Disc, even if a bar spinner is less, er... well, less iconic. #SpinToWin

- Nuts is, and is piloted by people who are, and this is glorious.

- I had forgotten how much I love Razer. And. Um. I'm having strange feelings about it.

- Behemoth vs. Carbide is a classic match. #HumOfDeath

Anyone else watch it? Thoughts? Questions? Fangirling over Razer? Yay!

Pfft, forget your Razer. by Huinesoron on 2016-07-26 21:11:00 UTC Reply

Nuts is the way to go. It was fantastic.

I mean, okay, so it lost every battle after the first, but it only actually lost once. And it was so delightfully bonkers! With the little drones bouncing everywhere - literally, if Behemoth was in the room - and the insanity of 'our weapon came off, but it's okay, it caught under the other robot!'.

Nuts is bonkers. I want a series where 40 incarnations of Nuts go up against each other.

And then Carbide comes in and chops them all to pieces.

hS

You seem to believe I think otherwise. by Scapegrace on 2016-07-27 01:37:00 UTC Reply

Nuts is amaaaazing. A contestant who really gets the Wars - by which I mean gets that it's really as much about the taking part and entertaining people as it is the winning - is incredibly rare, and even if Nuts hadn't lasted as long as it somehow contrived to do, I'd've been rooting for it and its fuzzy-neon-waistcoated crew every day of the week, fam!

If I put my serious hat on, I could mention that Nuts' weapon wasn't without merit, since it evidently did some internal damage to Terrorhurtz's axe without them (or anyone else for that matter) realising they had, but why would I put my serious hat on at all? It's Nuts. The clue is in the name. And the fact that Carbide treated Nuts like nuts are treated by the bar's obligatory drunken orator in the middle of a speech that requires sweeping hand gestures. =]

However, they didn't bribe Angela Scanlon with baked goods, and were thus doomed to failure. Zero sausage rolls out of ten. =]

Niiiice. by Larfen J. Stocke, esq on 2016-07-26 05:44:00 UTC Reply

That stuff's bloody awesome.

Especially Razer. Pokes right through the other robots like they're made of cardboard glued together by butter.
I'd let Razer raze me, let me tell you.
It's back? Awesome! by Desdendelle on 2016-07-25 22:26:00 UTC Reply

I have fond memories of this programme. Though I'm kinda sad I'll have to do eight figures in the air to watch the new series...