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I saw Robot Wars last night for the first time in ages, and it seems to have completely changed.
Gone are the straight heats, and knockout round after round, with a couple of robots going through each week to an eventual final. No, now it appears to be 'Robot Wars Extreme!' with grudge matches, tag team matches, triple threats, middle weight divisions, matches between newbies trying to establish themselves and experienced pro's.
It seems very much to me that Robot Wars is tryign to copy the WWF, and gain popularity by being much more like wrestling.
Trouble is, WWF wrestlers each have a unique personality, something that is really tough to assign to a robot! But I suppose with each having a 'special move' of some sort people DO have favourite robots, ones they want to win.
Another thing in which the WWf excels is in the story writing. The way that wrestlers will turn on friends, go for a certain other wrestler, get screwed out of titles, all of this is the work of genius writing, which Robot Wars still doesn't have. The only way to get it is to fix results, else the storylines just don't run as they are intended. Fixing results in Robot Wars seems completely stupid, so maybe people wouldn't go for it in the same way they do the WWF.
Going back to the personalities of the WWf stars, those that make robots are, um, rather lacking in flair, to say it as kindly as possible. Basically those that build robots are often old men, or geeks. You don't really want to get behind these people, and cheer them on the same way as say, The Rock will get you cheering for him with his signature moves, and slogans, I mean you're not going to hear someone say "Can you smell-l-l-l-l what Wheely Big Cheese is cooking?" are you?
Maybe they ought to hire some top models or something, get them to bare a little flesh, and pretend they built the robots, I mean nothing gets someone behind a team like an attractive woman!
To mean it seems like Robot Wars is trying too hard to be something that it really isn't, but with the right pushes, in the right places, it really could be.
Imagine if the matches were fixed like the WWF, you could have a fan favourite screwed out of the title by one of the house robots, maybe have somebody sabotage their own teams robot, and join another team. Have a Vince McMahon type figure as one of the judges, always against one of the fan favourites. I might make it a more watchable program, or it might just become really, really daft, but it would be interesting to see.
So, anyone else think that Robot Wars is trying to be like the WWF? do you think it could succeed? what would help it?
Gone are the straight heats, and knockout round after round, with a couple of robots going through each week to an eventual final. No, now it appears to be 'Robot Wars Extreme!' with grudge matches, tag team matches, triple threats, middle weight divisions, matches between newbies trying to establish themselves and experienced pro's.
It seems very much to me that Robot Wars is tryign to copy the WWF, and gain popularity by being much more like wrestling.
Trouble is, WWF wrestlers each have a unique personality, something that is really tough to assign to a robot! But I suppose with each having a 'special move' of some sort people DO have favourite robots, ones they want to win.
Another thing in which the WWf excels is in the story writing. The way that wrestlers will turn on friends, go for a certain other wrestler, get screwed out of titles, all of this is the work of genius writing, which Robot Wars still doesn't have. The only way to get it is to fix results, else the storylines just don't run as they are intended. Fixing results in Robot Wars seems completely stupid, so maybe people wouldn't go for it in the same way they do the WWF.
Going back to the personalities of the WWf stars, those that make robots are, um, rather lacking in flair, to say it as kindly as possible. Basically those that build robots are often old men, or geeks. You don't really want to get behind these people, and cheer them on the same way as say, The Rock will get you cheering for him with his signature moves, and slogans, I mean you're not going to hear someone say "Can you smell-l-l-l-l what Wheely Big Cheese is cooking?" are you?
Maybe they ought to hire some top models or something, get them to bare a little flesh, and pretend they built the robots, I mean nothing gets someone behind a team like an attractive woman!
To mean it seems like Robot Wars is trying too hard to be something that it really isn't, but with the right pushes, in the right places, it really could be.
Imagine if the matches were fixed like the WWF, you could have a fan favourite screwed out of the title by one of the house robots, maybe have somebody sabotage their own teams robot, and join another team. Have a Vince McMahon type figure as one of the judges, always against one of the fan favourites. I might make it a more watchable program, or it might just become really, really daft, but it would be interesting to see.
So, anyone else think that Robot Wars is trying to be like the WWF? do you think it could succeed? what would help it?
Yeah Hypno disc just tore away at Ming 3 and wheely big cheese today
I really want Razor or Hypnodisc to win a championship. They are the best!
Well I just typed a huge reply to this but it was deleted after it found a offensive word and I clicked back to edit it but low and behold the post was gone!
Useless!
Here I go again..........
Now some features of the WWF I would like to see in Robot Wars, now I donít watch Robot Wars but Iíve seen enough of it to get the jest of what goes on.
Run ins?
Imagine a long time feud was happening between two particular robots and one did a run in, in the match!
Factions?
I hear you say there are tag teams but what about a group of robots forming a faction? Like say the House Robots are, that would be interesting.
Heel / Face turns?
A robot making a heel turn siding with the enemy side or visa versa? This would be amusing but might not work properly.
Championships?
Now there obviously the big title but how about other titles and say you could split robots into divisions by weight or the amount of money you spent on your creation.
Storylines?
This being difficult to do but imagine robots trying to defeat the House Robots (Say theyíre Vince McMahonís faction) and there was opposition, this however wouldnít work seeing as that means that most robots would have to be on the program every week and the novelty with Robot Wars is seeing new robots every show.
Feuds?
You say grudge matches are in full flow already but how about long time feuds that the designers of the robots have, sabotaging the other teams Robot, grrrrrrrr! Backstage Scuffles?
:-)
Ok seriously the WWF and Robot Wars do have similarities but what about hype, hype flies around the WWF more times than Jamie Oliver makes another TV appearance (Sainsburyís pah!) Both shows have it, both shows have backstage promos, Robot Wars has the interviews with the makers of the robot bragging how itís going to smash itís opponent apart and you know the smack talking in the WWF already. That brings us to the commentators, the commentators job is partly to sell a move as being particularly brutal, Jim Ross and Kevin Kelly do a good job of this but have you ever heard the Robot Wars announcer? Talk about a change in the tone of voice one minute heís quietly mumbling to himself and the next heís shouting his head off putting a little scrape of cars colliding like the Smash of the century and then itís back to the quiet bickering once more until the next little scuffle.
The WWF and Robot Wars do have similarities and maybe more can be implemented into the show to make it more appealing, the Interviews for instance and maybe Entrance Music, picture a top fan favourite robot entering to a standing ovation while the latest track from a top band fills the arena. However Robot Wars shouldnít be too much like the WWF because it would change it too much, lets hope it doesnít follow it too much otherwise it will be a completely new Television program, Robot Championship Wars. :-)
I did have a lot more tings but for the life of me I canít remember what I typed, probably just me rambling on, it was better written than this too, shame, that will teach me.
Useless!
Here I go again..........
Now some features of the WWF I would like to see in Robot Wars, now I donít watch Robot Wars but Iíve seen enough of it to get the jest of what goes on.
Run ins?
Imagine a long time feud was happening between two particular robots and one did a run in, in the match!
Factions?
I hear you say there are tag teams but what about a group of robots forming a faction? Like say the House Robots are, that would be interesting.
Heel / Face turns?
A robot making a heel turn siding with the enemy side or visa versa? This would be amusing but might not work properly.
Championships?
Now there obviously the big title but how about other titles and say you could split robots into divisions by weight or the amount of money you spent on your creation.
Storylines?
This being difficult to do but imagine robots trying to defeat the House Robots (Say theyíre Vince McMahonís faction) and there was opposition, this however wouldnít work seeing as that means that most robots would have to be on the program every week and the novelty with Robot Wars is seeing new robots every show.
Feuds?
You say grudge matches are in full flow already but how about long time feuds that the designers of the robots have, sabotaging the other teams Robot, grrrrrrrr! Backstage Scuffles?
:-)
Ok seriously the WWF and Robot Wars do have similarities but what about hype, hype flies around the WWF more times than Jamie Oliver makes another TV appearance (Sainsburyís pah!) Both shows have it, both shows have backstage promos, Robot Wars has the interviews with the makers of the robot bragging how itís going to smash itís opponent apart and you know the smack talking in the WWF already. That brings us to the commentators, the commentators job is partly to sell a move as being particularly brutal, Jim Ross and Kevin Kelly do a good job of this but have you ever heard the Robot Wars announcer? Talk about a change in the tone of voice one minute heís quietly mumbling to himself and the next heís shouting his head off putting a little scrape of cars colliding like the Smash of the century and then itís back to the quiet bickering once more until the next little scuffle.
The WWF and Robot Wars do have similarities and maybe more can be implemented into the show to make it more appealing, the Interviews for instance and maybe Entrance Music, picture a top fan favourite robot entering to a standing ovation while the latest track from a top band fills the arena. However Robot Wars shouldnít be too much like the WWF because it would change it too much, lets hope it doesnít follow it too much otherwise it will be a completely new Television program, Robot Championship Wars. :-)
I did have a lot more tings but for the life of me I canít remember what I typed, probably just me rambling on, it was better written than this too, shame, that will teach me.
Robot Wars trying to emulate the WWF? Pah, if they did, it wouldn't be successful. I just can't see it having a decent enough formula. I mean, look at that Battledome stuff that they used to show on Channel 5. They tried to encorporate Gladiators with WWF and look what the product was.
WWF + Gladiators = Trash
I can see a pattern here.
WWF + Robot Wars = Trash
Catch my drift? Angles etc are intended for wrestling - and maybe sope operas but nothing else. Robot Wars used to be a lot better, but now, it's just going down the drain. I haven't watched it for ages, because the actual quality of the show is becoming increasingly shoddy. BBC2, either cancel Robot Wars, show repeats or change the format - please!
Thanks for reading.
Gaming Guy.
WWF + Gladiators = Trash
I can see a pattern here.
WWF + Robot Wars = Trash
Catch my drift? Angles etc are intended for wrestling - and maybe sope operas but nothing else. Robot Wars used to be a lot better, but now, it's just going down the drain. I haven't watched it for ages, because the actual quality of the show is becoming increasingly shoddy. BBC2, either cancel Robot Wars, show repeats or change the format - please!
Thanks for reading.
Gaming Guy.
I used to watch Robot Wars all the time about 2 years ago but now can't be bothered. i have to check all of this new stuf out.
This is EXACTLY what I was saying to my friend today. They've got 'the challenge belt' and 'main events.'
Just as a note to you Meka, the normal series starts again after 16 episodes of Extreme. I prefer the series, although this does work to an extent. They've not got a bit of a champions league, in which the 'main-eventers' go against eachother in a tournament, which is very good.
I have a favourite robot-Steg 2. Also, fortunately, the guys who made aren't 'geeks,' unlike the guy who drives Chaos 2 who's voice hasn't broken yet. But I can't see people getting behind them until they improve the 'characters.'
Lots of inverted commas in here...and it's obvious why. It COULD work, but lets hope they don't fix results.
Just as a note to you Meka, the normal series starts again after 16 episodes of Extreme. I prefer the series, although this does work to an extent. They've not got a bit of a champions league, in which the 'main-eventers' go against eachother in a tournament, which is very good.
I have a favourite robot-Steg 2. Also, fortunately, the guys who made aren't 'geeks,' unlike the guy who drives Chaos 2 who's voice hasn't broken yet. But I can't see people getting behind them until they improve the 'characters.'
Lots of inverted commas in here...and it's obvious why. It COULD work, but lets hope they don't fix results.
Robot Wars Extreme isn't the actual Robot Wars championship. As far as I'm aware, I think this is just for entertainment purposes to keep us interested in Robot Wars.
I think Robot Wars could go WWF style and be quite successful.
I want to see Razor against Pussycat. Razor deserve revenge!
I think Robot Wars could go WWF style and be quite successful.
I want to see Razor against Pussycat. Razor deserve revenge!
I saw Robot Wars last night for the first time in ages, and it seems to have completely changed.
Gone are the straight heats, and knockout round after round, with a couple of robots going through each week to an eventual final. No, now it appears to be 'Robot Wars Extreme!' with grudge matches, tag team matches, triple threats, middle weight divisions, matches between newbies trying to establish themselves and experienced pro's.
It seems very much to me that Robot Wars is tryign to copy the WWF, and gain popularity by being much more like wrestling.
Trouble is, WWF wrestlers each have a unique personality, something that is really tough to assign to a robot! But I suppose with each having a 'special move' of some sort people DO have favourite robots, ones they want to win.
Another thing in which the WWf excels is in the story writing. The way that wrestlers will turn on friends, go for a certain other wrestler, get screwed out of titles, all of this is the work of genius writing, which Robot Wars still doesn't have. The only way to get it is to fix results, else the storylines just don't run as they are intended. Fixing results in Robot Wars seems completely stupid, so maybe people wouldn't go for it in the same way they do the WWF.
Going back to the personalities of the WWf stars, those that make robots are, um, rather lacking in flair, to say it as kindly as possible. Basically those that build robots are often old men, or geeks. You don't really want to get behind these people, and cheer them on the same way as say, The Rock will get you cheering for him with his signature moves, and slogans, I mean you're not going to hear someone say "Can you smell-l-l-l-l what Wheely Big Cheese is cooking?" are you?
Maybe they ought to hire some top models or something, get them to bare a little flesh, and pretend they built the robots, I mean nothing gets someone behind a team like an attractive woman!
To mean it seems like Robot Wars is trying too hard to be something that it really isn't, but with the right pushes, in the right places, it really could be.
Imagine if the matches were fixed like the WWF, you could have a fan favourite screwed out of the title by one of the house robots, maybe have somebody sabotage their own teams robot, and join another team. Have a Vince McMahon type figure as one of the judges, always against one of the fan favourites. I might make it a more watchable program, or it might just become really, really daft, but it would be interesting to see.
So, anyone else think that Robot Wars is trying to be like the WWF? do you think it could succeed? what would help it?
Gone are the straight heats, and knockout round after round, with a couple of robots going through each week to an eventual final. No, now it appears to be 'Robot Wars Extreme!' with grudge matches, tag team matches, triple threats, middle weight divisions, matches between newbies trying to establish themselves and experienced pro's.
It seems very much to me that Robot Wars is tryign to copy the WWF, and gain popularity by being much more like wrestling.
Trouble is, WWF wrestlers each have a unique personality, something that is really tough to assign to a robot! But I suppose with each having a 'special move' of some sort people DO have favourite robots, ones they want to win.
Another thing in which the WWf excels is in the story writing. The way that wrestlers will turn on friends, go for a certain other wrestler, get screwed out of titles, all of this is the work of genius writing, which Robot Wars still doesn't have. The only way to get it is to fix results, else the storylines just don't run as they are intended. Fixing results in Robot Wars seems completely stupid, so maybe people wouldn't go for it in the same way they do the WWF.
Going back to the personalities of the WWf stars, those that make robots are, um, rather lacking in flair, to say it as kindly as possible. Basically those that build robots are often old men, or geeks. You don't really want to get behind these people, and cheer them on the same way as say, The Rock will get you cheering for him with his signature moves, and slogans, I mean you're not going to hear someone say "Can you smell-l-l-l-l what Wheely Big Cheese is cooking?" are you?
Maybe they ought to hire some top models or something, get them to bare a little flesh, and pretend they built the robots, I mean nothing gets someone behind a team like an attractive woman!
To mean it seems like Robot Wars is trying too hard to be something that it really isn't, but with the right pushes, in the right places, it really could be.
Imagine if the matches were fixed like the WWF, you could have a fan favourite screwed out of the title by one of the house robots, maybe have somebody sabotage their own teams robot, and join another team. Have a Vince McMahon type figure as one of the judges, always against one of the fan favourites. I might make it a more watchable program, or it might just become really, really daft, but it would be interesting to see.
So, anyone else think that Robot Wars is trying to be like the WWF? do you think it could succeed? what would help it?