Great episode. The final defeat and death of Isaac, marking the beginning of the final arc. Great job by the three main characters. And when Mei joins them with a stick... well, just for the sake of this stick, she should not be made a rider (although if some semi-canonical special happens, where she is allowed to wave a sword, I will only be happy).
Also, this is the episode where the Reika actress likes her acting. I generally liked the Ryoga-possessed mayhem at South Base, which works both as a boost to Shindai sympathy and as a reminder that veteran riders have not gone anywhere, even if they have been hanging around lately.
Overall, I love this episode.


Very funny fanfiction. Laughed while reading.
Also, I looked at your viewing plan and I have a little advice/remark. Would you like to watch Sword of Logos Saga before the end of the show? It's just that it's mostly showing the events in and before the show from Isaac's point of view (of course, with small but important additions). And it seems to me that after the finale, this mini-series will not be as interesting as while the unfortunate villain Isaac is still fresh in memory.

There is always the possibility of rushing to TTFC. Both personal and crossover like Girl Remix. My ideal is a dream, like that W episode where Akiko became a rider. If that wasn't effective enough, she could get some Dream Sword that doesn't exist in the real world. But it seems that I am already wandering into the territory of fanfiction.

About Isaac's god complex, Rintaro's speech to him is golden, that actually what'd make him closer to god was when he was an outwardly admirable figure to the SoL members, like how Rintaro practically worshipped him, but with his true colors revealed, now he's the one who abandoned godhood as no one would revere him as such anymore. And Isaac's much more sensitive than expected facing people's scorn against him. And this cements Storious as the real big bad of the series, actually. As Storious said, Isaac's death is well-deserved as well as being poetic justice of everything this irredeemable monster has pulled off.

So yeah, this episode was about power of friendship in teamwork where, the heroes beat the villains due to what leads to them "ganging up" on the villain. Though Xross Saber already beating Solomon before was talked below. Other than that, Isaac is the opposite of Touma (at least early one), where Touma is someone who isn't that good in swordmanship, but has excellent imagination to make up by his unusual and creative battle tactics, Isaac is a master swordsman (albeit with lack of burden in his blade) but has no imagination to only use Omni Force to constantly spam brute force moves, compared to Xross Saber using magic carpet for example.

The Shindai siblings seem to further open up to others here, with Durendal asking for Slash and Buster to finish him off to end this madness, and that after this ends, Ryoga once again expresses his gratitude with a little smile and even Reika doing the same. And this episode had Kento validating his father's actions.... to portray his extremist methods as him being self-sacrificing and noble. It's true that both Hayato and Kamijo are much better people than Isaac, but this is another kind of vindicating parents or the lesser evil (to Isaac), unlike Zi-O's quiz arc.

I'd think that the fight is also like Ex-Aid Hyper Muteki w/ anyone or Zero-Two w/ anyone against the main threat where, upgrades aren't really needed and they hard carry the battle where their much weaker teammate has no problem with the much stronger villains. And actually at the beginning I found disappointment that Xross Saber ends up only relying on his swordmanship to fight Solomon (who does the same), but later there are at least more tricks displayed between those 2.

"Mei isn't the Reika type of female, so there'd be no chance for her being the one appointed to action".

I recall some MeiEspada theorists changed to MeiCalibur after seeing that new shot in the OP with 10 Swordsmen facing the big glowing purple guy, as it got people speculating about Who's Calibur? Part 3. At this point, I just wanted her to wield a Seiken Sword. Any Seiken Sword. At least once.

I didn't watch Girls Remix due to my strong dislike of the two protagonists, but if Mei was in it, as a Rider, I would've been tempted. If it happens in a future TTFC special or something, I'll watch it.

Imagine them creating an ice Seiken for Mei to wield. XD

Blades already has a Long Get on the ice element, with Tategami Hyoujyu Senki.

It's understandable with Aguilera, but you should at least get to know Dark Tackle before disliking her :) Just kidding, of course I understood everything. But those who watched admit that it was not necessary to put Jeanne in the title of this mini-series.

I think it's more about the lack of a divine in her name ;)

Logic

I forgot to mention that the SoL could draw on the powers of Tategami and cause what I described earlier. Also, the idea of Mei getting ice was really supposed to be a reference to her crush on Rintaro.

One of them is probably the actress who played Yoko, the slightly crazy monster expert on Ultraman Z. I have no idea which one because my facial recognition game is not what it used to be.