Mathematical proof of just how cool Delta is?

(What's that? This joke is dead. Nah, nah, it turned into an Orphenoch.)

Personally it petered out for me when that suit started spending every episode getting whooped...

This episode made it look cool for a while though (thanks to somebody else wearing it), and I love the epic choir music playing alongside Kaixa riding sidecar. The only one missing from this big brawl is Auto-vajin...

Huh, did you forget the name of Side Basshar?! There are so many missiles in that chase fight with Side Basshar and Jet Sliger. So many missiles. Crazy scenes like these are rare in the franchise but when they happen, they're awesome! One of my favorite CGI moments from the show.

Unsurpisingly, Murakami joins the club of Delta users who are cooler than Mihara. He's no longer president so he doesn't mind collecting Gears now. Faiz and Kaixa only had to chase him since Mihara basically called him a ride.

And this is why I never got in on that joke: because I knew Mihara was coming.

In before Orphnochs are all revealed to just be really hardcore smokers.

I mean, sorry? I never know if the shit I care about is of interest to the fandom at large, so when a weak episode has a strong ending, my assumption is that that papers over a lot of the flaws in people's memory. I'm sorry if I'm being dismissive or reductive!

It just felt so frustrating to give him the spotlight so late in the run, and have it be so disconnected from the main characters. He doesn't share a dialogue scene with any of them, and the stakes of the conflict are never made clear to the heroes. It just didn't sit right with me.

I completely did forget the name of Kaixa's bike, thank you! In fairness, that name hasn't been uttered onscreen... maybe ever? And the bike hasn't transformed in dozens of episodes. At least a Rider used the sidecar, this time!

Yeah? Well I heard that Delta is so cool, not even the existence of Mihara can stop this running gag from being hilarious.

Oh, I didn't really mean anything by that! I just found it amusing how familiar that part sounded. I even agree that this one was far from Faiz's best material. I don't think I've ever seen you be truly dismissive of other people's opinions. I didn't mean to come off like I was criticizing you there!

Now, do you talk about Renegades and Team Faiz within this episode, or the series as a whole? And other than this, each member of the teams are actually different in approach, individually that you know.... though they're modeled after each other's counterparts. And other than Lucky Clover, what would you view for Smart Brain (other than Murakami, Hanagata, and Minami)? For Minami your take seems tame for him to seem justifaizing him... I don't approve of it. And this should be taken objectively for me, but what do you mean that Team Faiz are heroes because they try to get better at being people? And for Teruo here, did you only speak about him as a character instead of his other stuff?

You talk about how it's about Orphnoch King's machinations, and Team Faiz being in secondary, and you don't realize he's a potential threat to others (unlike what I think for Hanagata now), and moreover, Team Faiz are spending time with Teruo? And I'm sure Yuji not having dialogue meant something here, to add tension on what's going on with him, and it's probably in character for him to run Smart Brain the first time, how he treats the others there.

I support Kaido getting acknowledged here! (Mari just saying Keitaro saving him, probably out of spite) This act is actually performed by him (although he's not doing it earnestly), he's a dick but it's not like he's trying to take credit from others or exaggerate what he's done here! There's also more of Kusaka's racism to Orphnochs to just attack Kaido without provocation. And for Teruo and Orphnoch King all important to Murakami.... isn't this... coincidence?

But for some reason Auto Vajin doesn't join the party to complete the set!. This does utilize ED-209's multi passenger vehicle to carry both Faiz and Kaixa..... and the fight yeah it's noteworthy that this combines both the Rider combat and motorcycle clash for Faiz (previously it was only about the motorcycle... in a less choreograph than Kuuga's one other than being flashier).

Those who hate him's reasons are all his cruelty, and because of that they can't see him as anti-hero either, because they acknowledge he does more harm than good overall even if he kills Orphnochs. Though like you said before, people like Kitazaki and Minami are even worse (they're listed as pure evil). But having few redeeming qualities doesn't absolve you of evil alignment (caring for Mari - caring for a single person is seen in some of them, and that even what drives their villainy), more villains are on that category - Kitazaki and Minami are just in special worst category that is even too evil for villains (other examples for this in other Riders - Daguva, Ouja, Dr. Maki, Banno, Masamune, Evolt, etc.).

I'm going to put a pin in this one for the time being, since it's all stuff I plan on delving into after the series concludes. I do have thoughts, but answering that paragraph would take me the rest of my day off. Sorry! I hope it'll be worth the wait!

Yeah, a little weird that we haven't seen Auto Vajin in a while!

Wow, what happened to "Faiz CyKill"?

He's conserving his power. Waiting for the right time