Is this the time for sarcasm?

Gotchard ep 7.

Rinne's auDHD swagger is off the charts

I liked Gotchard 7. The part where Spanner walked in and immediately started being a hater and Sabimaru was like "please stop bothering me with this, I'm just trying to finish my homework" was the funniest Spanner scene yet. I think Spanner should accidentally radicalize the whole class to Chemy liberation by being such a tool.

Also, Isaac's "fuck that guy" moment... hmmm. I got the impression from the promotional info that Isaac is supposed to be like a person. Some interesting "artificial beings as tools vs artificial beings having wills of their own" stuff in this episode between Isaac seeming to volunteer a heated personal opinion to Sabimaru, Hopper1 continuing to go out of their way to help Hotaro rather than just being a Gotchard component, and Saboneedle ditching Gotchard. Hmm, I could see some interesting compare/contrast happening with Rinne's analysis paralysis at the tea shop and her seeming to not really be able to make decisions for herself when there's not an obvious "right" thing to do.

Didn't the alchemists talk during the wrestler ep about how Chemies living freely at the moment attracts unwanted attention from the evil sisters? But none of the kids brought that up re: the Saboneedle situation. iirc this is the first episode in the series by a different writer, that one might have slipped through the cracks.

Is that why they were in a church? So that Lachesis can dress up as a nun?

It's a smart strategy, I admit. People confessing their sins and whatnot. Sure, there are those who are truly remorseful, but then there's the select few who just want to feel absolved without actually feeling bad. Like this guy I guess.

So it seems the Sisters' true goal is to collect malice and they just need the Gotchardriver for the end or the like. So I guess it's like a catalyst then, something that's supposed to speed up a reaction?

Also as it turns out, the guy they serve is named Geryon. Geryon is from the myths of Heracles. He was a giant with three bodies (I don't know how that works), and the grandson of Medusa. Killing him was one of Heracles's Twelve Labors.

On that note, when I was looking into what the "final door" could be, the entrance to Heaven wasn't the only thing I found. Another thing I found was that it was a way to enter the Garden of the Hesperides, daughters of Atlas who were the caretakers of Ladon, a dragon who guarded Hera's tree of golden apples. Another of Heracles's Twelve Labors was to retrieve an apple, which he did by convincing Atlas to retrieve it for him and spend the day with his daughters, with Heracles holding the sky in the meantime.

Why is that the case?

On on that note, how many times has Houtarou cheated then? I mean, he uses the power of Gotchard to stop Malgams and then capture Chemies. Or should he not receive credit for capturing Kamantis, Skebows, Venomdake, Antrooper, Gorillasensei and Hawkstar?

Pikahotaru, Saboneedle, Smaphone and Mechanichani

You are eleven. You have your whole life to do this. Even Neon didn't have to do this for her parents' love and she was the same age as you.

So what exactly happens if the natural order is broken? I get like the Laws of Conservation of Mass and Energy and such, but even that has exceptions under extreme circumstances.

BurningGorilla has replaced VenoMariner in the opening

This is just Gai Amatsu all over again.

I see we've entered the 2-episode mini arc part of the show now.

Gotchard NeedleHawk. I like the spikes all over it, kind of reminds me of Kamen Rider Bravo.

I understand what you're saying here, but there are 101 Chemies. There are quintillions of possible moves in a game of chess. There's just a bit of a higher chance is all.

Dragonflies don't have stingers, so where is that coming from?

I don't know why he's shocked, I did this stuff in the fifth grade.