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Season 2, Ep 20 (Patreon)

Published:
2021-10-12 13:58:08
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2023-07-01 15:39:20
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2026-06
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well... another creature from my list, kinda? 😂

Files

Buffy Season 2, Ep 20 - Go Fish

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Comments

Elisa

I think Go Fish is hilarious - some really good lines

Chas Summers

Last week I knew you were so hyped to see where Angelus/Spike/Dru lead knowing this one was in the way and I felt bad. This was allegedly a S1 script they still had lying around to use before the finale.

Tim Pierce

I seriously wanted to start a petition to have you skip this episode and go straight to the finale, but it technically would have been spoilers to bring up this clunker. Luckily, this is the last terrible episode for a long time. Also, the finale is a two parter. You know what that means....

Jessica Roth

Blecch. Never did finish that big essay on 2.19. (It's almost done; I'll put it up in that thread eventually. But talk about dated…like '1955' dated…sheesh.) Good news is that we don't need to take such a deep dive here, so things should go swimmingly. (What, you don't like my cheap puns? What are you, thin-skinned?) Personally, I have no problem enjoying this episode, except for some minor quibbles. So it's not the big climax; that's the season-finale. Better a fun creature episode than an ep that PRETENDS to be some big arc episode, but just runs in place to generate faux-suspense and basically pisses away our time. JMO. Okay, okay, people are probably about to pool their resources to stop my horrible puns. (It's my dad's fault! Blame him, not me! [R.I.P., Dad, but I'm throwing you under the bus, lol.]) So, I guess I'd better…split.

Jo

Haha, contrary to many I like this episode but it def should have been earlier in the season.

Melissa

Why are Tuesdays my best day of the week? Because of you, Darcie. Off to watch!

Jessica Roth

So, yeah, nothing great. (I rate it 19 of 22 for the year.) But nothing bad, just a fun creature episode. (This was an "audition" script by new writers looking to get a job for next season. David Fury and Elin Hampton are a married couple, actors and sitcom writers, which is why the episode was big on jokes and light on Buffy's angst…they just let SMG set the mood by brooding at the start.) It has its flaws: we lose the human element when Gage goes fishy (we're not REALLY afraid for Xander, honestly) and there's too much running around in Act IV, IMO. Plus, I never liked Conchata Ferrell (Ruthie), R.I.P. But it's funny and I love Buffy's undercover "skills" (she's 'reading" the magazine upside-down, ffs!) and Carl is such a GREAT psychopathic bad guy. Total nut job; Angel could take notes. Gotta love the fakeout in Act I, when Cameron is in the steam room and it feels as though the monster is about to attack…but it's just the coach…except that, as it develops, the coach IS the monster, basically. I still miss Jenny, of course, but I like that B/W/X now have a space of their own (Willow's classroom) to meet in, without being in the Library all the time. And there are some flubs in the directing (Buffy takes too long to respond to Gage's screams), but it's still passable. That last shot must have been hilarious to film…"Okay, stunt men. Get into your fish suits and swim out into the ocean. Be free!" And poor Cam, boring Buffy with all his Gertrude Ederle stories. Dude, this is America. Nobody wants to hear about BRITISH endurance swimmers! Where are your Diana Nyad tales? (She swam around Manhattan Island! She swam from Miami to Cuba!) Patriotism, bro. Honestly. So yeah, a nice happy story about kids being turned into monsters, and the bad guy dying from interspecies gang-rape. (Very appropriate for a family-friendly network like the WB…at 8.00 PM…) What's not to love? And Xander in the Speedo™ is just classic. LMAO. ("When you're nude? I meant 'changing'." Surrrre, Willow. Sure.)

Jessica Roth

Trivia: The actor playing "Sean", the last of the Fish-Men, is Shane West. You probably have seen him in stuff, too. Sean Murray and Shawn Clement were pretty much out of the musical score game by now, but they did this one, because Christophe Beck had to work on the finale. Distribution of labor, and all. Another great sweater for Xander (opening scene). Seriously, where does he get all of them? And that is a cake tray at the Bronze (something more for the snack menu)…but that's not a cake inside of it. It's several boxes of animal crackers; presumably a shout-out to the absent Oz. (Seth Green was off filming a movie. "Idle Hands", I think.)

Melissa

It's got some good parts but the odd placement in the season as well as all of the uncomfortable references in it really drag it down. But Cordy's speech to Fish Xander will forever be one of my favorites. And the small part by Shane West, love him in Once and Again. An excellent and beautiful show that was cancelled before its time. We are finally at the finale with a two parter next week!!!! Color me mega excited. Are you going to do a season 2 final thoughts after that?

Jessica Roth

(I would edit this in, above, but we know Patreon HATES when I edit, so…) Very amusing that you did that little digression on how sharks hate the taste of human flesh…and then the plot turns on Angel spitting out Gage's blood. Darcie's Psychic Powers for the win! And Happy Harvest! (Does mean you have to wear a Mercedes-Benz symbol on your forehead and be a "vessel"? I hope not.)

GreenDragon

I do enjoy this episode, despite how anticlimactic it is. Which is mainly due to it's placement in the season. But no matter the episode you make my Tuesdays brighter :)

ghostofdurruti

Well, this was certainly an episode! And that's all I have to say about that. Okay, okay--so I'm really not a fan of this episode, and I tend to agree with the general fandom consensus that it's one of the worst of Season 2. (You're right to say that it feels kind of like a Season 1 episode--in fact, my understanding is that it started out as a leftover script from Season 1, much like Killed by Death.) However, like all of the "bad" episodes of Buffy, it has its share of cute and funny character moments, like Willow interrogating Jonathan (who finally gets a name in this ep!), Buffy trying and failing to inconspicuously tail Young Michael Scofield, and Cordelia monologuing at "Xander" the Fish Man. But there are also some bad character moments--Buffy's friends acting dismissive of her after Snyder gets on her case for defending herself against Cameron really rubs me the wrong way, for example. All in all, if I could excise the good parts, spread them across the rest of the season, and delete this episode entirely, I probably would haha. Unfortunately I don't have that power, and even if I did, most of the good parts of this episode are actually pretty intimately tied to the main plot, so it would be hard to move them elsewhere in the first place. On the bright side, though, there are now 0 episodes to go before the finale! Fasten your seatbelts, everyone...

Svetlana Grabar

I would loveeee it if you made an official creature list :D

cruzinbosco

One of my favorite episodes. I know the majority hate it, but I just find it so fun, unique and so totally 90s that it's perfect. Also, some of my most loved one-liners happen in this episode. I agree that it belongs much earlier in the series, but I still think it's great.

Sarah

Was that “cake” a bunch of animal cracker boxes stacked on top of each other? Or am I just crazy? 😂 I never looked at the cake until you mentioned it, makes me wanna pay more attention to the background stuff now. I think peoples main issue with this episode is the placement, which I don’t mind a fillery type of episode before the season finale. It’s a nice break, considering what Angel has been up since he became Angelus again I think any break is well deserved. I’m excited we’re finally at the end of season 2. 🎉

Richard Lucas

1) I think you are right, and future reactors should be told to watch 20 before 19, what do you guys think? then spike standing leads right into the fjnale! 2). did you notice this coach was on the show before? in season one, episode 6 (the hyena episode), during the dodge ball scene. i love that they bring actors back like that! 3) Darcie, since the finale is a two parter, would you consider reacting to both parts back to back? And post Tues and Wednesday. Please?

Sika6061

I hate this episode with the fire of a thousand suns, but once again, you've made it enjoyable Darcie! I hope you had a wonderful Harvest dinner with your family. Can't wait for next week!

R J Walker (FumblesMcStupid)

I'm way behind and I don't have much to say because I hate this episode despite there being some really good stuff in it - Cordy's speech, Giles somehow persuading the entire swim team to be locked in his book cage lol BUT that scene where the gang isn't interested in Buffy's 'I'm the one being blamed' speech is SO ooc - are you telling me that every one of them wouldn't be lined up to punch that guy? Terrible writing >:( And Buffy making rape jokes just turns my stomach and makes me doubt EVERY good intention this episode had to show that women get blamed for being assaulted. The BEST thing is Giles' new accessory in his tie, but more on that later (in a comment on an episode that actually deserves thought). It's a pity because the episode is funny and a cool idea but I just can't :(