Fundamentally I know that it's wrong to judge a book by its cover, but there are a few models this year that left me scratching my head and wondering "what the heck were they thinking?"
Namely the ROC, the Battle Station, the Introvert, and the Frontier.
I wonder why Spyderco chose to roll these models out. Did someone lose a bet?
Honestly, I wish that they would reintroduce the C15 Terzuola folder. Give it the "Starmate treatment"; I don't care which steel, don't care if it's made in Golden, Japan, or Taiwan. Just bring it back to production for one year, let me buy 5 of them, and then they can get back to all of the fantasy-looking, miniature frame lock-having, and otherwise-too-small-for-my-hands fringe stuff that they came up with this year.
-nate