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Spockie-Tech
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Sorry for the cynicism , but all mainly I see on that link is people asking when/if the house robots will be back, will craig charles be presenting it, will it look like the original arena and who the pit babes will be.
So in other words, most people couldnt give a toss about the competitors bots, they just want to see the famous big rule-breaking house robots with personailty/style appearance chewing up outmatched competitor robots in an arena full of fire again..
And the big news is actually just the rights for roaming robots to use the name "Robot Wars" on their shows, after the stupid legal battles that resulted between the yanks and the poms over who is "The Real Robot Wars"..
*yawn*
As I have said, I think there is potential for Robotic/Mechanical combat to do some exciting new things, but its probably not going to happen with people who just want to return to "the good old days"
Maybe we should put the *Roboteers* in the arena and have the Robots outside judging *them*.. since most Roboteers seems to be far more interested in fighting each other than working together to make things happen.. _________________ Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people
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Spockie-Tech
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OK,..
The positive side of my cynicism is that I trying to point out to you guys, that what excites *you* in terms of engineering skill, a good & fair competition, and comradery and helping each other in backyard events with good fights, is *NOT* what the average couch potato remembers the show for and what they want to see in any hypothetical future show.
They seem to want big, mean looking bots with personality (even if they are really just being remote controlled, they dont want to know that) that ignore the rules chewing on a hapless competitors robot and destroying it with lots of special effects and fire/smoke, while the competitors team wear rubber chickens on their heads or something, commented by a exciteable sounding voice, with a bib boobed bimbo doing the interviews.
Gee, that was hard to work out that that would be what would appeal to the average armchair surfer now wasnt it ?
So.... you want the money/fame of a TV show ? Give it to them ! Forget about trying to make it a serious sport, it doesnt work as far as entertaining the brain-dead tube-feeders goes. Figure out some scripts, come up with a plan to build some media-friendly machines instead of the current ones that have about as much visual appeal as an angle grinder. Give them sparks and booms and fake drama and make them drool. Make a scripted Pilot show with a fake story about some robot equivalent of a karate-kid builder who gets his ass whupped and then comes back to steal the show.. ("Real Steel" anyone ?)
Or, continue running it as a serious sport, but forget about the glitz and glam of the little idiot box, because you just got reminded what the interest of the average boob-tube viewer is..
Now do you get what I was trying to say ? _________________ Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people
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Spockie-Tech
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quote:
Originally posted by Knightrous:
http://www.syfy.com/videos/Robot%20Combat%20League/vid:2626626
Yup, that would fit the criteria.
I guessed it wouldbnt be too far away after seeing real steel.
Although that looks very post-production-faked to me, with the sparks and smoke, and a suspicious lack of any close ups longer than about 0.5 seconds.
Bet you its done in a studio, with a script, and carefully controlled matches. which of course wont bother your average "reality TV" drone at all, they want it to be real, so it will be to them.
(and people wonder why Ive never owned a TV.. theres ample evidence of their brain destroying effects, but they make the population docile and easy to govern, so nobody who wants to rule will take them away.. theyre too handy for controlling dumb people with ) _________________ Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people
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Thu Feb 21, 2013 11:54 pm |
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shreddy
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I couldn't watch it any longer than 10 mins.
There is a big difference between 'fighting robots' and 'fighting' robots.
If you want to do what you want, yet be entertaining so as to increase your audience/popularity, those who actually want to be competitive and have fun doing so are SOL. You can't get good exposure or long, entertaining fights without purposely choosing how robots are built and who they fight and in what circumstances.
Without script, the majority won't enjoy it. There it is, plain and simple. Obvious to the average person.
At the end of the day you can't please everyone; "Haters Gonna Hate", just do what you want/can do and hope for results, otherwise little sacrifices have to be made along the way purely for those reasons.
It's a shame _________________ http://au.youtube.com/user/crustydemonsully
The day I stop giving 100%, is the day I stop competing
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