[Deepsea]

Text dump n bound sorry about that, as well as for any grammatical or spelling errors I probably made.

I have to say I didn't really think this episode was that good. The pacing felt very fast, which is a criticism others have had of the show, or at least certain episodes, but I haven't felt it up until now. The plot with Makato trying to along the powers of Houdini while cool in concept in how he was restricted due to the chains, just felt like it happened to quick I never really got a feeling of why Houdini refused to lend Makato his powers, and when he did give Makato his powers it felt completely arbitrary because I didn't really feel like Makato had changed anything at all about himself or had beaten Houdini in some manner. I mean Makato was still shouting at him to give him power to help save his sister, how was the different then Makato shouting at him to save his sister earlier. I did like the Houdini henshin and fight though, the henshin with the bike driving up and then turning into the jacket was cool as was the finisher.

Takeru's plot with trying to talk with Mushashi felt, at least to me, like it was meant to be a sub plot over a few episodes, but it just got resolved at the end, and I guess that's okay, but still I don't feel like we got a very detailed explanation as to what was going on, though future episodes will probably expand on that. Also I kind of feel dissapointed that they didn't give Onari a bigger role in the plot with him being able to talk with the Goemon eyecon, but who knows maybe he can, and that'll go somewhere in the future.
(also just a random note I liked the use of I wanna say the fish eyes lens for the scenes in the eyecon, it was a nice touch that gave it a sort other worldly feel).

I mostly just feel "Eh" towards the return of Javel, while his fight at the beginning of the episode was nice, in both reestablishing him as a threat (though how he was able to go toe to toe with boost when that previously kicked his butt is a question, I'll just chalk it up to either he knew what he was up against this time or that he was cutting loose some more) and in how it showed the more sadistic/ warrior side of him. I did like that he appeared to sort of resent Aran for restricting him, hope we see more development of that in the future. I honestly was expecting him to not get killed again, with the riders victory instead coming from killing the Gundari instead. but Javel being killed a second time in I want to say 4 episodes is pretty funny.

Kanon was certainly present, I'm very much hoping she gets more character development and involvement in the plot in the future, because currently she just sort of feels present, and kind of like a plot catalyst.

So Overall I'd say the episode was okay-ish, it made me laugh a few times, though that may be just because I'm easily amused, but still felt too fast for it's own good, and it might be hard to take Javel seriously in the future considering whats happened to him.