The Weekend stuff isn't even my least favorite part of Episode 27, but... still not fun to watch! They're an organization, which means they'll always be tangential to the main conflict of this show; they don't seem to have any specific beef or grudge, they're just mad at Fenix for secretly trying to revive Giff. Even the main guys from Weekend can only vacillate between Spooky Plotting and Ambiguous Support. Hard to care when there's no real urgency to their actions!

Probably the Hayabusa-kun puppet, the thing that finally sent Yuki fully reeling into madness.

Olteca and Demons parted ways again faster, with Holy Live being outright stomping him in a fight, though taking a while for Holy Live to put down Demons, as Demons did punch Holy Live, but it had no effect. Other than that, Olteca's even more fleshed out in this episode, and it's nice that even a purely evil villains got this without giving them redeeming traits when Olteca displayed his nihilistic worldview like him thinking promises are meant to be broken or that he thinks happiness can only be gained from sacrificing others, to psyche out Daiji killing Kagerou before. I'm one of those that hoped Olteca won't be redeemed, and now he's shown to have a dark kind of backstory too that his father abused him due to being a freak via being a prodigy.

And Olteca goes even further in his cruelty, using Giff ViStamp on a young child this time. Otherwise I predicted about Olteca mass turning people into Giftarians as a sacrifice for Giff in the preview before. I don't know how did those people get unconsious though. Now there goes the chance to kill Olteca easily (like when Aguilera worked with him again) as Giff protects him when Holy Live attacked him, and his presumed evolution in preview. There's also a tease of Olteca and Akaishi breaking apart too.

For more Weekend reveal here, the theory of Ushijima family not being actual family was a right one, but other than that there's more in that Weekend is an anti-government organization thus it targets Fenix for their true intention. Both Ikki and Daiji are enraged of them targeting Fenix... of which both of them seem clouded and biased in this case, and is not like their previous portrayal after they deemed Fenix as questionable (albeit Daiji wants to stay to investigate further), or them still trying to reassure themselves of the organization they have affiliation with. Other than that, though at first they forcefully take Ikki by zapping him, the Ushijimas don't seem to have malicious intent towards the Igarashis, apologizing for the secrets too and revealing them, albeit their method is still questionable to spy and keep tracks on them. And Kimiko admitting she enjoyed Happy Spa. And the relation in Weekend wasn't only between Ushijimas and Igarashis, but also between Yukimi and Masumi, the former who remarked that Masumi survived, and is unfazed by that. Now this can signify Yukimi's importance just like Buu-san before.

Regarding Ikki being captured, this shows more of their newfound friendship that Vice is more concerned about Ikki disappearing in his berserk state, and Vice's old wish of being free is now treated as banter. But despite Ikki telling Vice to believe in him, it'd not be as easy as what's said of Vice still going berserk at the end, making him one of the current main threats, emotionally too. Jack Revice got buffed with the berserk mode at the end? As Jack Revice that time can repel Holy Live who beat Demons (and who beat Jack Revice before). For Daiji and Sakura's fight against Olteca and then Jack Revice, while Daiji has been shown to be dutiful soldier of Fenix that fights for people, this episode didn't only make Sakura fight alongside him but is also like-minded as well, to also vow to not let Olteca get away or the innocent civilians being killed. Guess this is also good to show actual characterization within her and not only fighting threats, to also being altruistic (well, since her declaration to Hiromi alongside her siblings)=. Oh, them being like minded here... but Sakura had joined Weekend while Daiji defended Fenix... so that could mean something later. Teased George's henshin as Demons... and him claiming to help the Igarashis later. But previously George excused himself of the group hug nonchalantly. That still brings up sus points for George to me.

It seems that even Yukimi had a bit of a selfish going with the past that she wanted to keep the family's happiness thus she kept Genta's backstory a secret from everyone. This can be the keeping secret to honor Genta type, but this is also the keeping secrets to keep people she loves happy, the "doing what's best for them in their mind" type, which can remind me of certain characters.... obviously if it's really Yukimi being in the wrong, then she gotta apologize for keeping secret. For the group hug, now Yukimi sees Vice as another Ikki, of which resolves the feud between them now. Vice has changed for the better now, but I'd like to see more clear resolution of the apology like Kasumi to Gentoku in Build, forgiving him due to how Gentoku's clearly redeemed at that point as Kasumi noted. Otherwise this shows more why Yukimi really cherishes Genta, more compared to the children, including acting lovey-dovey to him without shame.

I always figured it was Ohsugi's suspenders that did it?

I mean, I wouldn't say "in the wrong"? She feels bad about how everything's going with her family right now, but the guilt she feels is that of a parent who wanted everyone to be happy; there's a difference between her blaming herself, and her being at fault. She only did what every parent does - protect her children from harsh truths until they're ready to hear them. I don't think she was wrong not to tell her children that their father was the victim of extra-governmental experimentation and they had to change their name to escape the grasp of mad scientists?

I gotta give it to the book club's evil writing machine from Saber. I don't know what it ever did, but my god, it was in the Top 3 Book Club personalities.

Honestly, the best theory I've heard was that she kept standing too close to Gentaro when he transformed and was getting brain damage from the cosmic radiation.

congrats you finished the good part of Revice unfortunately it's all downhill from here I didn't like 27 though because it feels like EVERY SINGLE Time the writers of Revice didn't know what to do they just made Vice look as suspicious as possible or had Sakura and Aguerlia fight or something else I can't mention yet due to spoiler reasons a theory of mine is the plot outline of Revice was only for like 30-35 episodes but was stretched into 50 Which this is a problem admittedly MOST Rider shows have(I thought Ex-Aid was never outright bad but the Kamen Rider Chronicle arc is kinda ehhh until Chronus debuts properly, and Build losses a LOT of it's steam when Evolt is introduced imo) but here and Ghost it's ESPECIALLY Noticeable

EDIT part of the reason for the Sakura shilling is the initial draft of the plot of the show that became Revice was that a young woman was going to get Kamen Rider powers to protect her family and the character that became Aguerlia was going to be the secondary rider (TOEI wouldn't let the wrtiers do this but it's also all but said said character more or less became Sakura)

Can't argue with this. I'm curious to see how Die takes this on a daily pattern because there is some stuff in this show that was definitely not helped by seeing only one episode per week.

Kinda wish that machine gave, like Evil Recaps of the show when Tassel was out of the picture. Some spooky hand retelling last episode's cliffhanger as a flawless victory for the forces of darkness? What a waste that we didn't get that!

That works, too!

Uh, thanks? I gotta be honest: still optimistic about this show! There're for sure elements I dislike, but even the dull installments manage to plug in at least a couple things I'm super dialed into. I'm probably tempting fate by saying this, but I genuinely can't see myself disliking this show as a whole. Bad beats? Sure. Trying to do too much at once? Absolutely. But there's a core of this show that is unique and nuanced enough to keep me from writing it all off. Hopefully they'll rediscover those attributes again soon!

Yeah, I know very well that there's a difference between blaming herself or actually being at fault (though I noticed that you tend to hate the former); I don't really want for the words of someone blaming themselves to be taken into face value and have them demonized for it (e.g. self-loathing primary Rider types). But yeah, I guess I'm bringing this up because in many stories, someone keeping secrets like this is portrayed as being at fault, but I'd also wonder more what'd differentiate between those who are in the wrong or not.