[barnstenchfartface]

After rewatching with subs and paying more attention I no longer think this is a good episode with flaws, more like a flawed episode with some good stuff. The emotion just isn't there, and it's perhaps in episodes like these that demand more from Takeru that the fact that his actor just isn't good really makes it a pain. Reactions to Makoto getting busted just weren't very logical and the entire final fight with Takeru just saying platitudes the whole time just...I really just tuned this shit out.

I don't really think we need an involved reason for why the 15 heroes helped Takeru, though, honestly. He may have only talked with some of them, but it's not like the Eyecons aren't cognizant of their surroundings. They're literally eyeballs, they're always watching what's going on. Even if Billy and Goemon and etc. haven't gotten to chat with Takeru personally, they've fought alongside him previously, and they've observed his behavior up to this point as well. Considering every time he does connect with an Eyecon it's basically just the same thing--them just observing him and at the end just telling him what a good job he's doing--it only makes sense that they'd help him out again. Makoto's Eyecons and Takeru already have helped each other before, too, and with their user gone helping out his friend is again not that big a leap. Alain's Eyecons haven't had much interaction with him before, but I still don't see why it'd be weird for them to want to help a good guy after getting thrown around by nothing but villains up to this point.

They also seem to have some level of omniscience considering they were able to tell what was going on all the way over wherever from the basement, so who knows. Sennin has exhibited the same sort of ability for a while.

I guess it's driven by convenience, but it makes enough sense imo. I'm more bothered by other things.