Transformers: Robots In Disguise Season 3 Episodes 18-19 Titles Revealed

Just got caught up on the most recent episodes....So the US is only 2 episodes behind Canada, but it appears a new episode will not air this Saturday in either country...odd...but anyway

#16 Moon Breaker
Always nice to see Optimus Prime come back. I must say that the behind-the-scenes story of whats going on, on Cybertron is something I want to see more of. This was an overl pretty cool episode. Unfortunately all the build up to Menasor ends in this episode, as he is defeated by the Bee Team, and imprisoned, and taken back to Cybertron by Prime & Drift. Its cool to see them expond on combiners functionality when having a united mind working together. menasor being unstable makes sense, but then how did he obliterate whole planetary systems or whatever...? Just a bit uneven for such a menacing threat...but based on what's going on, hopefully this will not be the last appearance of the Stunticons

#17 Exiles
I always found Steeljaw underwhelming villain, but in a turn, I was impressed with this episode, this was definitely the highlight of the season so far, and I've never really been a big fan of Sideswipe, but again this episode really brought out the best in him. Overall I really liked this episode it was well written and kept me entertained. Again I cant wait to see whats going on back on Cybertron

So we have titles for the next two...#18 Breathing Room and #19 Prepare for Departure

So...we have 9 episodes, and a lot of loose threads to tie up. If the last 6 episodes take place back on Cybertron I would be ecstatic! Unfortunately that leaves only 3 episodes to resolve the Soundwave story arc, and provide a resolution to the end of episode #17.

Video links for "Moon Breaker" and "Exiles".


"Moon Breaker"
Dailymotion: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5yqcft

YouTube:
Part 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUA4zQooGuE
Part 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yaEC9l4Quc
Part 3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP51c0_GBBo
Part 4 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_aTd6-Ejfs
Part 5 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T296kYllEeM


"Exiles"
Dailymotion: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5yr6y4

YouTube:
Part 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYdgudVcR2A
Part 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgmuspk0j4c
Part 3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_AhXB917hQ
Part 4 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkMuRKS7NtA

Sabrblade wrote:Video links for "Moon Breaker" and "Exiles".


"Moon Breaker"
Dailymotion: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5yqcft

YouTube:
Part 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUA4zQooGuE
Part 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yaEC9l4Quc
Part 3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP51c0_GBBo
Part 4 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_aTd6-Ejfs
Part 5 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T296kYllEeM


"Exiles"
Dailymotion: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5yr6y4

YouTube:
Part 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYdgudVcR2A
Part 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgmuspk0j4c
Part 3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_AhXB917hQ
Part 4 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkMuRKS7NtA

Aaaaand my cable provider has episode 15 up on demand and not 14. Gotta love it.

Not dates for when it returns (ep14) in the UK yet, we'll find out about 1 hour before it airs, they advertise it 2 weeks after it starts.

are there to be no more new episodes at the moment? coz there wasn't a new one last week

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.

o.supreme wrote: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.

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

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

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.

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).

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.

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.

Kurona wrote: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.

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.

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

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...

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

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

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.

+ 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

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.

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.

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

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:the Bee Team engages the notorious Decepticon; Optimus Prime takes on Laserbeak.

Thanks Optimus, you're so brave

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.

"Freedom Fighters"?


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

Albatross250 wrote:"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!"

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

anyone watched episode 20(prisoners principles) yet?

Stuartmaximus wrote:anyone watched episode 20(prisoners principles) yet?

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

Finally, some progress. With only 6 episodes to go...

according to the feedback of episode 21(of those who have already seen it) Soundwave makes an appearance, but it's a lacklustre episode, unfortunately I haven't yet found the episode online to provide a link(where's Sabrblade when you need him?)

Stuartmaximus wrote:(where's Sabrblade when you need him?)

Waiting for KimCartoon to finally put the darn episode online - http://kimcartoon.me/Cartoon/Transformers-Robots-in-Disguise-2015-Season-4/Episode-21

ok...just watched the episode...aye....i liked the Activator battletruck Optimus, it was cool to finally see Soundwave(we knew it was coming), but I think you're right Kurona, we'll probably not see characters like for instance...Galavatronus...not turn up til the final episode(& even then he'll prob just pop up at the end of it...wave at the camera... and that'll be it ) + other characters that we were supposed to be getting(supposedly a Bruticus) will never see the light of day unfortunately

Kurona wrote:Did we really spend about 5 episodes following the return of friggin' Quillfire only for Soundwave to get one episode in which he is immediately defeated

Same thing happened to the Stuntacons/Menasor. 13+ episodes of build up, they took him down in one. (well he actually appeared in 2 I think, but the B team combiner took him out on their first try after Menasor had supposedly "destroyed whole planets)..."... .

I'm sorry, the first season was fairly entertaining, and the Starscream 6 episode arc was actually quite good, but this show has just felt generic this whole season. I'm more than ready for it to be over. Why is it the series I love get cancelled before their time, and the ones I don't like drag on... .

o.supreme wrote:

Kurona wrote:Did we really spend about 5 episodes following the return of friggin' Quillfire only for Soundwave to get one episode in which he is immediately defeated

Same thing happened to the Stuntacons/Menasor. 13+ episodes of build up, they took him down in one. (well he actually appeared in 2 I think, but the B team combiner took him out on their first try after Menasor had supposedly "destroyed whole planets)..."... .

I'm sorry, the first season was fairly entertaining, and the Starscream 6 episode arc was actually quite good, but this show has just felt generic this whole season. I'm more than ready for it to be over. Why is it the series I love get cancelled before their time, and the ones I don't like drag on... .

Honestly, I think I agree with you on this one. I've said my 'this show hasn't progressed and has stayed stagnant' thing a lot by now so I'll spare you all the speech this time, but this episode really shows it. It also doesn't help that the mini-con's side switch came out of nowhere. Man, wouldn't it have been interesting to see a lot of the season focus on that? See how their characters develop, see a bit of their backstory, maybe have it lead into a Soundwave arc by having them show the Bee team where he is and what he's up to? Wouldn't that have been so much more entertaining and interesting than seeing Clampdown again while Sideswipe and Strongarm have their 384th lesson about not bickering with each other?

Also, gotta love how the Shadowzone has previously been portrayed as basically a living hell to be in but Optimus said the mini-cons can live there. Optimus friggin' Prime, champion of morality, everyone.

Also, this really isn't a spoiler, because its been seen in previous episodes but...The whole issue with making ground bridges to the Shadow Zone...was established in Prime was a fluke/anomaly when 2 normal ground bridges converged on the same space. Even in the RiD15 S2 episode when Soundwave first appeared (in all his TF Prime glory) kept this constant. Now apparently Soundwave & the minicons with himcan create them at will?

I understand Soundwave stated he created a beacon from resources gathered in the shadow zone. But where did the other Mini Cons come from?

Also Bumblebee was there when Megatron declared the Decepticons disbanded. Now of course we know that did not stick, others will always rise to fill the power vacuum, but even in the heat of battle how hard would it be for Bumblebee to drop on Soundwave "hey your boss quit!" or something like that...Now granted Soundwave would have no reason to believe him, and probably continue his attack, but it might stop and make Soundwave think, at least a well written story might include this detail... .

Also I'm a bit confused...If Soundwave is able to somehow communicate with the "Benefactors" on Cybertron, why does he need to make a mega-transmitter to try to phone home to Megatron?

I can to some degree understand that, actually. Soundwave's skill with ground/space bridges was shown broadly throughout Transformers: Prime, to the point where it practically became his main form of offence. I don't think it's too much of a stretch to say that with all the time someone like him spent in the Shadowzone, he would eventually have figured out a way to break free. Maybe his previous appearance in Portals was in fact the final thing he needed; some sort of technological or environmental sample from the 'real world'. This is naturally all speculation, but with all the elements on show here I again think it's pretty plausible that if anyone can manufacture a way of travelling between shadowzone and... 'realzone' easily, it would be him.

Doesn't explain where in the pit his new body or mini-cons came from, but hey, let's just heap those in the pile of missed opportunities and flaws with this season too.

Kurona wrote:Doesn't explain where in the pit his new body or mini-cons came from, but hey, let's just heap those in the pile of missed opportunities and flaws with this season too.

Maybe Soundwave cannibalized Zombie Skyquake?

The Activator Mini-Cons were the ones creating the Shadowzone portals, not Soundwave.

1 - There's no need for spoiler tags.
2 - Can Optimus Prime fuck off with his preaching already?

Burn wrote:2 - Can Optimus Prime **** off with his preaching already?

??? I don't get this...

o.supreme wrote:

Burn wrote:2 - Can Optimus Prime **** off with his preaching already?

??? I don't get this...

Every time he shows up, he has some preachy speech about overcoming adversity, working together, or some other boring inspiring crap. It comes off sounding like Peter Cullen is just phoning it in. This is quite possibly the worst iteration of Optimus Prime.

Burn wrote:

o.supreme wrote:

Burn wrote:2 - Can Optimus Prime **** off with his preaching already?

??? I don't get this...

Every time he shows up, he has some preachy speech about overcoming adversity, working together, or some other boring inspiring crap. It comes off sounding like Peter Cullen is just phoning it in. This is quite possibly the worst iteration of Optimus Prime.

Mmmm... Bottom 3, I'll give you that.

Burn wrote:

o.supreme wrote:

Burn wrote:2 - Can Optimus Prime **** off with his preaching already?

??? I don't get this...

Every time he shows up, he has some preachy speech about overcoming adversity, working together, or some other boring inspiring crap. It comes off sounding like Peter Cullen is just phoning it in. This is quite possibly the worst iteration of Optimus Prime.

We need more of what Rescue Bots did to counterbalance his constant pontification:


Kade: "Hey-ey O.P.! What is shakin', Bacon?"
Heatwave: "Sir! My partner insisted on accompanying me to-"
Optimus Prime: "Nothing much, Double Dutch."
Heatwave:
Optimus Prime: "I too have learned from humans."



Optimus Prime: "I am grateful that you were willing to temporary leave your team to assist me."
Blades: "Optimus! Helping you is... I mean, you're bigger than Elvis!"
Optimus Prime: "I have not met this 'Elvis' and am unaware of his size."

Sabrblade wrote:

Burn wrote:

o.supreme wrote:

Burn wrote:2 - Can Optimus Prime **** off with his preaching already?

??? I don't get this...

Every time he shows up, he has some preachy speech about overcoming adversity, working together, or some other boring inspiring crap. It comes off sounding like Peter Cullen is just phoning it in. This is quite possibly the worst iteration of Optimus Prime.

We need more of what Rescue Bots did to counterbalance his constant pontification:


Kade: "Hey-ey O.P.! What is shakin', Bacon?"
Heatwave: "Sir! My partner insisted on accompanying me to-"
Optimus Prime: "Nothing much, Double Dutch."
Heatwave:
Optimus Prime: "I too have learned from humans."



Optimus Prime: "I am grateful that you were willing to temporary leave your team to assist me."
Blades: "Optimus! Helping you is... I mean, you're bigger than Elvis!"
Optimus Prime: "I have not met this 'Elvis' and am unaware of his size."

See, I can partially agree with you there. BUT ... those lines, while much better than anything he's said in RiD, still feels forced, unnatural, stiff even. He needs more relaxing. I get that he's got this big burden of leadership/mentor on his shoulder, but it's like they're trying to make him "one of the boys" whilst also trying to be make him this big super character. He doesn't fit.

I'm not sure if that even makes any sense, it's really hard to put into words what I feel is wrong with the characterisation because I'm entirely sure myself, he just feels wrong.