The Energon Pub

[Stuartmaximus]

Most sites I'm following read the following:

18. Sep 16, 2017 Breathing Room
19. Sep 23, 2017 Prepare for Departure


For once CN in the U.S. seems to be airing these first... we have something to look forward to for the next 2 weeks.

[Sabrblade]

Episode 63: "Breathing Room"

http://kimcartoon.me/Cartoon/Transformers-Robots-in-Disguise-2015-Season-4/Episode-18?id=76991

Part 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dVYKqvGsHo
Part 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLSHUrKTHrM
Part 3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8kAV0ZWHrs
Part 4 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiqKXoShgeM

[Stuartmaximus]

I think you've covered most of this on here already...but here's some episode schedules(at least UK ones) from TFW2005(after link scroll down to bottom to SeanTF1967's post)
http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/threads/s ... 158/page-7

[Burn]

Sorry, but ... this show can't get cancelled fast enough.

Bunch of incompetent Autobots blundering around trying to stop an equally incompetent bunch of Decepticons. It started out okay but the characters have gotten worse and worse with equally terrible stories.

[Stuartmaximus]

the latest episode was...meh..ok...nuthin special, aye it was guid tae see Quillfire, Clampdown & Steeljaw again, but can't wait tae see the combiners again & hopefully eventually Galavatronus

oh & burn...if this show goes(I'm sure it'll end someday) there's nothing really else to replace it, ok...ok..i dunno if we're getting more Rescue Bots episodes or not? & yes there's the 10 episode(verrry short) machinima titans return thing coming(even though people hated the previous CW one).

[Burn]

Exiles started out great. An all out assault on the Autobots by the Decepticons.

The Autobots were forced to retreat! Their base overrun! This just got serious!

And then it just went back to being a parody of a decent Transformers cartoon.

And then Breathing Room comes along and it's just ... stupid.

If it ends and we don't have a cartoon, then that may be a good thing. Give that bit of media a break, regroup, plan things out a bit better.

[Kurona]

I do feel myself a little bored with the series by this point, I do admit. I think what frustrates me most is how much they try to force everything back into a status quo.

We're back to the very original core Autobot cast and what may as well be the core Decepticon cast. The only consistent Autobot cast member that's joined since the beginning of the show - Drift - has been booted off into space, Soundwave and what is probably Cyclonus is being all but ignored for Steeljaw and his cronies who have been seen and resolved multipled times, we still have no bloody clue what Optimus is doing... there's no progression. Every time it seems like the show wants to move forward, bring in a new plot point or new team addition or any other way to shake things up; it takes two steps back. The only thing different now is that the team lives in a cave, and please excuse me if I'm not terribly excited at that prospect.

The show's simply stagnant at this point with such a refusal to shake up the status quo at all. I'm going to keep watching through to the end; I've seen much worse, but it's just boring.

[Burn]

The show's simply stagnant at this point with such a refusal to shake up the status quo at all. I'm going to keep watching through to the end; I've seen much worse, but it's just boring.

You definitely put it into better words than I did.

Lets not forget the whole "Bee Team Combiner" has suddenly just stopped being a thing while they bring back a bunch of old characters. That in itself just doesn't seem logical.

I already missed Rescue Bots, this makes me miss it even more.

[Kurona]

Yeah, it doesn't make a lot of sense. Admittedly, they might not even be able to form Ultrabee without Drift; Bumblebee expressed his concerns as such when Optimus arrived to take Drift away.

Sure would be nice to see that explained or confirmed. Sure would be nice to see them attempt to form Ultrabee. Sure would be nice to see an episode centred around them trying to form Ultrabee with one less member; resulting in a lot more instability and a lot more hijinks, and seeing how Steeljaw's team deals with a Combiner resulting in a different and more advanced dynamic than before. Sure would be nice to use old enemies coming back as an opportunity to show how Bumblebee's team and combiner state has advanced since the beginning of the show.

But, hey, I guess an episode where Sideswipe and Strongarm are stuck in a crate while Steeljaw catches a train to run away from plot development is good too.

[Sabrblade]

It honestly feels like the latest episode only existed to create even more fodder for the Sideswipe/Strongarm shippers.

[o.supreme]

The reason why I keep watching at this point is for what they tease. I want to know who the "Benefactors" are that freed Steeljaw etc... This and Optimus Prime returning are the things that keep me wanting to see this show. There is still the resolution to Soundwave's story which has not gone anywhere in a long time as well.

Next weeks episode "Prepare for Launch' sounds promising...but I've been wrong before. A return to Cybertron is always welcome, traditionally all TF stories on Cybertron or other alien worlds are the best with little to no earth/human involvement (for me at least).


Also , about giving animated series in general a rest... There was a full 18 months between the Predacons Rising movie and the premiere of RiD15 (despite it going into production immediately after). So it takes a while usually to get another series going, unless like in japan in the 1980's, you have the next one in development before the current one is over (Headmasters, Masterforce, Victory etc...)

Transformers: Cyberverse has already been announced. It currently has a 2018 launch date, but I'm thinking it will likely be late 2018, if anything, and other than telling new stories of past TF incarnations, very little is known at this point (the network, the format, the animation style etc...). A disturbing trend I've noticed is that networks are going cheaper & cheaper with animation, and going for an 11 minute format to conform to children's shorter attention spans, which angers me to no end...but that's a rant for another time.

As for RiD15, we know we are getting at least 2 more new episodes in September, to take us up through Prisoner Principals (episode #20 of Season 3, and #65 overall). I'm not sure if CN plans to air the last 6 in successive weeks (or another country might...) of if they will hold them off until what they perceive is a peek sweeps type time of year...

[chuckdawg1999]

Whatever Prime and Drift are doing will lead to Cyclonus who is also behind the pack and is working with Soundwave.

[Stuartmaximus]

latest ep is up
https://watch-series.co/series/transfor ... episode-19

[Kurona]

Is anyone else really getting tired of these lesson-of-the-week things? Stuff like what Grimlock was learning and all the Strongarm arguing with Sideswipe in previous episodes really, really feels like it should be early-series material. We're 7 episodes away from what I presume is the finale and they're still acting like it's the third friggin' episode.
We should be at a point where this team has progressed, where they're a lot more competent and work together well as a team with conflict and lessons coming from external influences like the loss of a teammate, which direction to come from when tackling a huge threat, etc. The villains and the overall plot have escalated but our protagonists have not.

[Stuartmaximus]

+ I still dunno why all the secrecy with Soundwave? I mean we know what he looks like coz of the toys + packaging artwork

+ this stop animation that came out a while back
https://youtu.be/0FImL52ODe8

[Kurona]

The secrecy with Soundwave would make sense. If it had been done for a couple episodes and not kept up the entire season. At this point it's not gonna be a satisfying payoff, and every kid who might have been a bit confused if it was only kept up for a couple of weeks knows exactly who it is.
It's once again an example of this show's status quo problem. They hint at Soundwave's presence, but they don't do anything with it or progress it forward until 19 episodes in. This doesn't make me worried or intimidated by some master manipulator behind the scenes; it makes me frustrated that Soundwave hasn't gotten off his ass and done anything.

[Sabrblade]

And, well, the end credits keep telling us who he is.

To speak more positively about this episode, we at least learned that he's an associate of the benefactors, so that's new.

[D-Maximal_Primal]

Thanks to some new listings from TWCC, we have listings and some descriptions for the final episodes of Robots in Disguise. The descriptions and listings provide some information related to current episodes, such as the successful return of Soundwave and the final battles with Steeljaw's pack. The episodes also include an Underbite who eats a groundbridge and starts hiccuping his way across the world. Check it all out below!

Season 3 Episode 21:
Collateral Damage
Soundwave finally escapes the Shadowzone to set up a beacon generator intended to summon Megatron; the Bee Team engages the notorious Decepticon; Optimus Prime takes on Laserbeak.


Season 3 Episode 22:
Something He Ate
When Underbite eats part of the Autobots' GroundBridge, the Bee Team have to chase the teleporting 'Con through the desert, the forest, and even outer space.

Season 3 Episode 23:
Sick as a Bot

Season 3 Episode 24:
Five Fugitives
The Autobots' pursuit of Steeljaw hits an unexpected roadblock when Strongarm's old mentor Detective Dropforge arrives from Cybertron with orders to arrest the Bee Team.

Season 3 Episode 25:
Enemy of My Enemy

Season 3 Episode 26:
Freedom Fighters

[Kurona]

the Bee Team engages the notorious Decepticon; Optimus Prime takes on Laserbeak.

Thanks Optimus, you're so brave

[bluecatcinema]

Going by the title, "Enemy of my Enemy" may feature Steeljaw's benefactors turning against him, forcing him and his pack to join forces with Team Bee to fight them.

[Albatross250]

"Freedom Fighters"?


Hold on, did they mention something (Sonic) on the Title of the Last Episode?

[Sabrblade]

"Freedom Fighters"?


Hold on, did they mention something (Sonic) on the Title of the Last Episode?

The term "Freedom Fighters" has been used in a lot of media over the years, even in at least one piece of TF fiction where a Peter Cullen-voiced Optimus says "Well done, freedom fighters!"

[Ultra Markus]

so far this combiner force season has had only maybe 4 episodes featuring combiners and now the final episodes such a disappointment i was hoping for more combiner action with other combiners

[Stuartmaximus]

anyone watched episode 20(prisoners principles) yet?

[Sabrblade]

anyone watched episode 20(prisoners principles) yet?

Yep, right here -
http://kimcartoon.me/Cartoon/Transformers-Robots-in-Disguise-2015-Season-4/Episode-20