Discussion of 2.20 "Go Fish" - Aired 5/5/1998 (WB-US)

Taake said:
Jack is kind of more menacing though, like the other guys are just jocks.

I feel like it's supposed to be a way of saying that it's never really over. The good guys "win" but not really, the bad stuff might always come back... dun dun duuuun... Of course they don't. But they could. 🙂
(or it's a way of saying - do your job better Buffy! Check for eggs, keep your ears open for invisible people swishing around and get a harpoon and go chase some fish guys in the sea... Then again, probably not.)




Agree. This really is just a filler before you get to the finale. I think I might've liked it better if the placing had been different.
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Or if it wasn't one of the worse ever episodes😉
 
thrasherpix said:
I saw the POTN review, and he claimed Buffy saying "Boys really love their coach" as saying the monsters were gangraping him. I have to admit that went over my head, I thought it was Buffy being snarky, and that the boys were ripping him to shreds in revenge for being turned into monsters. I still don't know which to believe, my original impression, or POTN impression.
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Yeah, I didn't get gangrape from that...
 
Wasn't Buffy gonna get gangraped though? Buffy's line does read a bit dark if the coach was being raped before being ripped to pieces.
 
I didn't either. But then its so unclear what the message of the scene is. The whole Fish rape thing is such a dodgy area to explore in the first place. The gender politics and the way Buffy is treated throughout is just so bad than it was always going to make that scene look worse anyway.
 
This episode is so weird for me. The placement of it before the finale is just awkward (I personally think it would've worked better to have "I Only Have Eyes For You" just before the finale) and I hated the assault/rape stuff and especially the victim blaming. Made it one of my least favorite episodes.

On the other hand if it'd been at a less awkward point in the season and they hadn't done the whole victim blaming thing, it could've been okay. It could've worked as a "cheesy filler episode", since stuff like Jonathan peeing in the pool, Xander in a Speedo, Cordelia's parts, etc. were decent.n Just... not good enough to redeem the episode for me.
 
The only thing I can think is that maybe they thought it'd be good to give the audience a breathing before the big finale and considering that IOHEFY was a big dramatic episode too. To me its a terrible episode. Its placing could have been better for the flow of the season but it wouldn't have made the episode itself any better.
 
The placement is a little off but to me it doesn't break the flow of the season. Most drama heavy episodes were followed by lighter or filler episodes (Innocence/Phases were followed by BB&B, Passion was followed by Killed by Death and IOHEFY was followed by Go Fish). Also, Becoming part 1 started out with on lighter tone that matched Go Fish more than IOHEFY. Even though Go Fish isn't a good episode, I'm glad we had that between two dramatic episodes. It gave the audience time to prepare for the finale and it gave Buffy time to recover after her experience in IOHEFY. After kissing Angelus and seeing him act like Angel, she needed to see Angelus drink from one of her classmates in Go Fish. Both the audience and Buffy needed to see that actually, after having Angel sort of back for an episode.
 
sosa lola said:
Wasn't Buffy gonna get gangraped though? Buffy's line does read a bit dark if the coach was being raped before being ripped to pieces.
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When the coach threw her in the hole, he said that the fish guys had already eaten (the nurse) and that they had "other needs" which Buffy then commented "Great, that's all my reputation needs, that I did it with the entire swim team". It is strongly implied that the coach intended for the fish guys to have their way with Buffy. Unfortunately for him, the tables got turned.

Carrie Hopewell said:
Most drama heavy episodes were followed by lighter or filler episodes (Innocence/Phases were followed by BB&B, Passion was followed by Killed by Death and IOHEFY was followed by Go Fish). Also, Becoming part 1 started out with on lighter tone that matched Go Fish more than IOHEFY.
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I wouldn't exactly call Killed by Death a "lighter" episode, it's basically about a monster that kills children with it's eyeballs by pinning them down so they can't get away. All the child can do is scream in terror as their life force is sucked out of them whilst adults can't do anything to help because they can't even see the monster.
 
DeadlyDuo said:
I wouldn't exactly call Killed by Death a "lighter" episode, it's basically about a monster that kills children with it's eyeballs by pinning them down so they can't get away. All the child can do is scream in terror as their life force is sucked out of them whilst adults can't do anything to help because they can't even see the monster.
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I said lighter or filler episodes. Killed by Death is a filler episode pretty much unrelated to the plot. Didn't say it was a "lighter" episode.
 
Carrie Hopewell said:
I said lighter or filler episodes. Killed by Death is a filler episode pretty much unrelated to the plot. Didn't say it was a "lighter" episode.
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Still, if the idea is to follow drama heavy episodes with not so drama heavy episodes then Killed by Death doesn't exactly fit that bill because of the subject matter.
 
DeadlyDuo said:
Still, if the idea is to follow drama heavy episodes with not so drama heavy episodes then Killed by Death doesn't exactly fit that bill because of the subject matter.
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There's no Angelus. Passion was heavy on the Big Bad and moved a lot along plot wise. Killed by Death only has two small Angelus cameos. The point was that lighter or filler episodes are irrelevant plot wise and let the audience decompress after plot heavy, usually angsty episodes.
 
Carrie Hopewell said:
There's no Angelus. Passion was heavy on the Big Bad and moved a lot along plot wise. Killed by Death only has two small Angelus cameos. The point was that lighter or filler episodes are irrelevant plot wise and let the audience decompress after plot heavy, usually angsty episodes.
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True, though an episode about a child killing monster isn't exactly enabling for the audience to "decompress" (Plus the monster was freaky as hell, right up there with the Gentlemen from "Hush").
 
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Not as creepy as Angelus snapping Jenny's neck ;)
It breaks the flow of the season in that when you have been building a arc which is about to reach its climax then it makes sense for the episode before that final one to adding further to that story and preparing the viewer for the final episode. I guess it didn't matter too much in this case because Becoming was a two parter so you had the first part to build towards the climax in PT 2 and because Angelus was very much an in and out character anyway.
 
I'm sure Joss Whedon (and I hope the writer of the specific ep) don't actually side with Snyder, the Coach, and the jock with the victim blaming. I'm sure Snyder and such were written that way to make them look bad for blaming Buffy and giving jocks passes, not that Joss and writer were saying Buffy was to blame for what she was wearing.

I was able to relate to it somewhat because jocks (including cheerleaders) were allowed to get away with the most outrageous stuff at the last high school I went to as well (worse than anything I saw at Sunnydale, at least not counting season 7 and supernatural stuff), and the faculty also came down hard on any who fought back. And it has since come out how other schools had jocks defended by the entire community, not just the school, for felony crimes (including rape). And there was a strict dress code (Buffy would've been sent home for wearing many of her outfits if she'd come to my high school dressed that way) and the principal wasn't even happy with that as he wanted to mandate school uniforms. I can only imagine how much he was panicking over Britney Spears. 😀 All in all, Go Fish made the school feel a bit more real to me (monsters not withstanding).
 
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thrasherpix said:
I'm sure Joss Whedon (and I hope the writer of the specific ep) don't actually side with Snyder, the Coach, and the jock with the victim blaming. I'm sure Snyder and such were written that way to make them look bad for blaming Buffy and giving jocks passes, not that Joss and writer were saying Buffy was to blame for what she was wearing.

I was able to relate to it somewhat because jocks (including cheerleaders) were allowed to get away with the most outrageous stuff at the last high school I went to as well (worse than anything I saw at Sunnydale, at least not counting season 7 and supernatural stuff), and the faculty also came down hard on any who fought back. And it has since come out how other schools had jocks defended by the entire community, not just the school, for felony crimes (including rape). And there was a strict dress code (Buffy would've been sent home for wearing many of her outfits if she'd come to my high school dressed that way) and the principal wasn't even happy with that as he wanted to mandate school uniforms. I can only imagine how much he was panicking over Britney Spears. 😀 All in all, Go Fish made the school feel a bit more real to me (monsters not withstanding).
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Maybe they just could have made it a bit clearer that they were in the wrong. But I think the main thing is how Buffy treats herself throughout the episode. Even at this neive, vunlerable stage of her life, Buffy is still a very strong person with a great awareness of right and wrong. I don't believe that she would beat herself up or second guess herself the way she does in this episode.

I think the representation of High School life seems pretty true to me, at least as far as the characters and their struggles goes. You maybe right that the representation of jocks and their power in High School might be realistic in this episode. But that alone isn't enough to make it a good episode for me. Trouble is I don't care about these characters I can about Buffy. And Go Fish is a rare time on the show that she is underserved IMO.
 
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thrasherpix said:
I'm sure Joss Whedon (and I hope the writer of the specific ep) don't actually side with Snyder, the Coach, and the jock with the victim blaming. I'm sure Snyder and such were written that way to make them look bad for blaming Buffy and giving jocks passes, not that Joss and writer were saying Buffy was to blame for what she was wearing.
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That's how I read the episode - I thought that was the whole point of it.

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Okay, I'm watching it again now. Random observations follow (imagine me saying this in between bites of popcorn, not that I'm actually eating anything, though if I were then it would be fish or prawns!).

One, Cameron Walker in the intro scene is so much like Parker! Heh, getting all poetic over the ocean (and apparently assuming Buffy is a silly female lost in the scene, rapt with wonder as she no doubt is when introduced to kittens, rather than having an intense life of her own). 😛😡

Stupid Jonathan, calling out for someone to help him and then popping an attitude with Buffy when she does. 😡 (And if it's humiliating to be saved by a girl, what's it like for the jocks who get tossed about by a girl? I bet they sound lame as they talk about how they were only being chivalrous and pretending to be knocked down.)

That aside, I loved the intro (mainly how it ends), I think because I'm a Lovecraft fan (and it makes me think of stories of the Cthulhu mythos involving the Order of Dagon ). It's more of a mood thing for me just before intro credits roll.

And then the scene of Willow in class (I wonder how the death of Jenny Calendar is explained to the students? Did they even bother to ask Willow for the details as kids would in most schools, or have they learned that it's better not to know some things?) with the infuriating bit about how Gage needs to be given special passes, even after he openly disrespects Willow showing how entitled he feels, and how above the rules. And thus we set that both Principal Snyder and the jocks are not good people to listen to. (Snyder's asking Willow if holding Gage accountable is how she shows her school spirit reminds me of an infuriating principal I had to deal with who talked about school spirit and having an attitude so much like Snyder's in that regard.)

Nice that Cordelia knew that Jefferson kept slaves, btw. Though her crack about Lincoln was so Cordelia, I didn't expect her to know something like that (Cordy's guilt and "true love" toward the end is also surprising, but obviously played for laughs). Xander wishes that Buffy was with him to share his moral outrage at the special privileges the swim team gets, just before Cameron (spouting more Parker-like words about his relationship with the ocean trying to appear deep) asks a bored Buffy if she's wearing a bra. And in the nurse's office after, Cameron gives such a nasty smirk as the coach says it's not a dance club that I KNOW it wasn't meant to imply Buffy was to blame for Cameron's behavior. He's a jerk, and that's as clear as can be, and neither Whedon nor the writer intended him, the evil coach, or Snyder to spout their personal views (if anything, they meant to vilify such views).

That aside...Willow saying, "Like an Oreo cookie." 😀😀😀

Furthermore, Xander gives Cameron a hard time about his nose, and says how much he loves it when they mess with Buffy (and get their butts kicked--ETA: just used an inappropriate word here that I've corrected, apparently my "high school brain" woke back up to comment!), including his statement of Buffy not being on his list of privileges after all. Didn't sound as if Xander was sympathizing with him (and quite possibly it was the writer's own hatred of jocks and principals at his own school using Xander as his voice, and implying the idea that he LIKED Cameron getting his nose busted, and later has Buffy talk about the special privileges jocks get and says it's been like that forever which is something an adult, like a scriptwriter, would say rather than an actual teenager who tend to overlook how much they have in common with previous generations).

Despite Xander's obvious dislike of Cameron, he still races to his shrieks right after. Whether he's brave or stupid (or hoping to enjoy witnessing Cameron's agonizing death) is for the viewer to decide. 😉 (As it was, given how hungry Cameron said he was, I'll have to assume his horrific change made him too slow to devour Xander so that he got away, a scene that we're not showed and I have to demand a penalty against the show for that. 😵 )

Xander imitating the mouth of the fish monster to Cordelia! 😀

Hmm, Cordelia saying, "You ran like a woman." 🙄 Still, that's in character for her, and there are girls (especially at that age) who talk like that. Still, Buffy's line of "whence it came" makes me forget it pretty fast.

Buffy holding the magazine upside down as she "discretely" watches Gage! 😀 'Course that's nothing compared to Willow's interrogation of Jonathan which I'm sure needs no description as I think that's about everyone's favorite scene. But I'm now wondering, did Willow INSPIRE Jonathan to "delve into the Black Arts" through that scene which would shape the character and series in later seasons?😱

Angelus echoing Gage's view of Buffy (that he shared with his team) would also suggest that the writers don't sympathize with the team view, because otherwise a psychopathic demon has just become the mouth piece along with Snyder, Cam, and the Coach, who we're obviously supposed to see as the bad guys. (Gotta love Gage asking Buffy to walk him home. 😀 Hmm, wonder if Gage babbled on the phone to others, or to say a brother, which contributed to Buffy being named Class Protector in the next season? 🙂 )

And how could I forget Speedo Xander saying he could keep an eye on Gage and other swimmers when Buffy can't is followed by Willow, a little too excited, asking, "When you're nude?" 😀😀😀 (Willow is definitely not gay there.)

Buffy and Giles in the sewers...reminded me of how often demons and vampires use those, I wonder what the usual etiquette is when they run into each other by chance? 😕

For that matter, sewers below the swimming room? Sheesh. I wonder if any demons or vampires ever gaze up through the grates at that school to plan their next attacks, or sort of like smelling the meals to whet one's appetite. 😱 And would any of the kids (especially Buffy) sense the demonic eyes upon them? (For that matter, where exactly is the Hellmouth under the library in relation to those sewer tunnels? And does the Hellmouth actually draw in beasties from the sea? Are the students just damn lucky that barbed tentacles don't just rip through those grates around the school for a quick snack?)

I bet Animal Control has their hands full (and probably run by either a government agency posing as such, or some of those sports hunters that liked to hunt or dine on the supernatural beings as shown in S5 Angel).

Buffy's comments about breaking out the tartar sauce and getting in touch with their inner-halibut still good. 😀

As for locking the swim team up, what would've Giles have done if one of them then transformed? 😱 (Even better, if one did during a swim competition!)

As for Buffy's crack about doing it with the swim team, that sounds more like the self-depreciating humor Xander uses, though of course it wouldn't work for him. I'll presume that was just a tasteless joke thrown in by the writers as they neared their deadline, and I can see how it would seem clever on first examination if they're in a rush.

Damn, that coach is a sick bastard with that big grin on his face as he looks down hoping to see a gang rape by monsters at the very least. I think it would be ridiculous to think that we should sympathize with the coach at that moment or that the writers intended to say "Buffy had it coming."

Furthermore, I am now convinced that Passion of the Nerd is wrong about the coach being gangraped. Those monsters are crawling over each other to claw and drown the coach, not rip off his clothes or bind him.

 
But as a final thought, this story BEGS the question of how the coach got hold of those documents...I bet he has one hell of a backstory! Maybe the Initiative was moving in even then. We saw that the government came to get Invisible Girl (Marcy?) in season 1. Was the Coach one of their watchers? (Surely the Watchers Council isn't the only one who places their discrete agents to spy, and sometimes act.) 'Course it could be that Mayor Wilkins (who Snyder obviously reported to, and I liked the novel I read that said Snyder was placed there by Wilkins specifically to keep tabs on Buffy, with the Mayor getting nervous about Buffy as he prepared for his Ascension, but otherwise liking her to help keep the "chaotic elements down to manageable levels.") The Mayor could have all sorts of reasons for wanting the swim team experimented on, maybe even just bored. IDK, but the Coach new about these documents AND had at least some idea on how to "adjust the mixture," which begs the question of how he came to know all that AND get his hands on the formula.

Whatever the case, I bet he was a crack shot with that pistol...and that he ordered Buffy in with a gun strongly suggests he has some idea of what Buffy is, or at least "much stronger than she looks." (He sure didn't waste using a gun to order the nurse in.) That said, Xander beat him in a fight (skill and experience generally beats the raw strength and vigor of youth, though kids do heal faster), but that could be because Xander had gained some real life experience (and I like to think formal training "off screen") which increased his combat reflexes and skill, and might've also been enhanced from the special steroids (which could explain how he lifts Buffy up with one hand even with monsters trying to drag Buffy back down even as Buffy failed to bring the coach back up using both hands, but then perhaps Buffy only pretended to fail!), that he simply took the coach by surprise.
 
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thrasherpix said:
Okay, I'm watching it again now. Random observations follow (imagine me saying this in between bites of popcorn, not that I'm actually eating anything, though if I were then it would be fish or prawns!).

One, Cameron Walker in the intro scene is so much like Parker! Heh, getting all poetic over the ocean (and apparently assuming Buffy is a silly female lost in the scene, rapt with wonder as she no doubt is when introduced to kittens, rather than having an intense life of her own). 😛😡

Stupid Jonathan, calling out for someone to help him and then popping an attitude with Buffy when she does. 😡 (And if it's humiliating to be saved by a girl, what's it like for the jocks who get tossed about by a girl? I bet they sound lame as they talk about how they were only being chivalrous and pretending to be knocked down.)

That aside, I loved the intro (mainly how it ends), I think because I'm a Lovecraft fan (and it makes me think of stories of the Cthulhu mythos involving the Order of Dagon ). It's more of a mood thing for me just before intro credits roll.

And then the scene of Willow in class (I wonder how the death of Jenny Calendar is explained to the students? Did they even bother to ask Willow for the details as kids would in most schools, or have they learned that it's better not to know some things?) with the infuriating bit about how Gage needs to be given special passes, even after he openly disrespects Willow showing how entitled he feels, and how above the rules. And thus we set that both Principal Snyder and the jocks are not good people to listen to. (Snyder's asking Willow if holding Gage accountable is how she shows her school spirit reminds me of an infuriating principal I had to deal with who talked about school spirit and having an attitude so much like Snyder's in that regard.)

Nice that Cordelia knew that Jefferson kept slaves, btw. Though her crack about Lincoln was so Cordelia, I didn't expect her to know something like that (Cordy's guilt and "true love" toward the end is also surprising, but obviously played for laughs). Xander wishes that Buffy was with him to share his moral outrage at the special privileges the swim team gets, just before Cameron (spouting more Parker-like words about his relationship with the ocean trying to appear deep) asks a bored Buffy if she's wearing a bra. And in the nurse's office after, Cameron gives such a nasty smirk as the coach says it's not a dance club that I KNOW it wasn't meant to imply Buffy was to blame for Cameron's behavior. He's a jerk, and that's as clear as can be, and neither Whedon nor the writer intended him, the evil coach, or Snyder to spout their personal views (if anything, they meant to vilify such views).

That aside...Willow saying, "Like an Oreo cookie." 😀😀😀

Furthermore, Xander gives Cameron a hard time about his nose, and says how much he loves it when they mess with Buffy (and get their butts kicked--ETA: just used an inappropriate word here that I've corrected, apparently my "high school brain" woke back up to comment!), including his statement of Buffy not being on his list of privileges after all. Didn't sound as if Xander was sympathizing with him (and quite possibly it was the writer's own hatred of jocks and principals at his own school using Xander as his voice, and implying the idea that he LIKED Cameron getting his nose busted, and later has Buffy talk about the special privileges jocks get and says it's been like that forever which is something an adult, like a scriptwriter, would say rather than an actual teenager who tend to overlook how much they have in common with previous generations).

Despite Xander's obvious dislike of Cameron, he still races to his shrieks right after. Whether he's brave or stupid (or hoping to enjoy witnessing Cameron's agonizing death) is for the viewer to decide. 😉 (As it was, given how hungry Cameron said he was, I'll have to assume his horrific change made him too slow to devour Xander so that he got away, a scene that we're not showed and I have to demand a penalty against the show for that. 😵 )

Xander imitating the mouth of the fish monster to Cordelia! 😀

Hmm, Cordelia saying, "You ran like a woman." 🙄 Still, that's in character for her, and there are girls (especially at that age) who talk like that. Still, Buffy's line of "whence it came" makes me forget it pretty fast.

Buffy holding the magazine upside down as she "discretely" watches Gage! 😀 'Course that's nothing compared to Willow's interrogation of Jonathan which I'm sure needs no description as I think that's about everyone's favorite scene. But I'm now wondering, did Willow INSPIRE Jonathan to "delve into the Black Arts" through that scene which would shape the character and series in later seasons?😱

Angelus echoing Gage's view of Buffy (that he shared with his team) would also suggest that the writers don't sympathize with the team view, because otherwise a psychopathic demon has just become the mouth piece along with Snyder, Cam, and the Coach, who we're obviously supposed to see as the bad guys. (Gotta love Gage asking Buffy to walk him home. 😀 Hmm, wonder if Gage babbled on the phone to others, or to say a brother, which contributed to Buffy being named Class Protector in the next season? 🙂 )

And how could I forget Speedo Xander saying he could keep an eye on Gage and other swimmers when Buffy can't is followed by Willow, a little too excited, asking, "When you're nude?" 😀😀😀 (Willow is definitely not gay there.)

Buffy and Giles in the sewers...reminded me of how often demons and vampires use those, I wonder what the usual etiquette is when they run into each other by chance? 😕

For that matter, sewers below the swimming room? Sheesh. I wonder if any demons or vampires ever gaze up through the grates at that school to plan their next attacks, or sort of like smelling the meals to whet one's appetite. 😱 And would any of the kids (especially Buffy) sense the demonic eyes upon them? (For that matter, where exactly is the Hellmouth under the library in relation to those sewer tunnels? And does the Hellmouth actually draw in beasties from the sea? Are the students just damn lucky that barbed tentacles don't just rip through those grates around the school for a quick snack?)

I bet Animal Control has their hands full (and probably run by either a government agency posing as such, or some of those sports hunters that liked to hunt or dine on the supernatural beings as shown in S5 Angel).

Buffy's comments about breaking out the tartar sauce and getting in touch with their inner-halibut still good. 😀

As for locking the swim team up, what would've Giles have done if one of them then transformed? 😱 (Even better, if one did during a swim competition!)

As for Buffy's crack about doing it with the swim team, that sounds more like the self-depreciating humor Xander uses, though of course it wouldn't work for him. I'll presume that was just a tasteless joke thrown in by the writers as they neared their deadline, and I can see how it would seem clever on first examination if they're in a rush.

Damn, that coach is a sick bastard with that big grin on his face as he looks down hoping to see a gang rape by monsters at the very least. I think it would be ridiculous to think that we should sympathize with the coach at that moment or that the writers intended to say "Buffy had it coming."

Furthermore, I am now convinced that Passion of the Nerd is wrong about the coach being gangraped. Those monsters are crawling over each other to claw and drown the coach, not rip off his clothes or bind him.

 
But as a final thought, this story BEGS the question of how the coach got hold of those documents...I bet he has one hell of a backstory! Maybe the Initiative was moving in even then. We saw that the government came to get Invisible Girl (Marcy?) in season 1. Was the Coach one of their watchers? (Surely the Watchers Council isn't the only one who places their discrete agents to spy, and sometimes act.) 'Course it could be that Mayor Wilkins (who Snyder obviously reported to, and I liked the novel I read that said Snyder was placed there by Wilkins specifically to keep tabs on Buffy, with the Mayor getting nervous about Buffy as he prepared for his Ascension, but otherwise liking her to help keep the "chaotic elements down to manageable levels.") The Mayor could have all sorts of reasons for wanting the swim team experimented on, maybe even just bored. IDK, but the Coach new about these documents AND had at least some idea on how to "adjust the mixture," which begs the question of how he came to know all that AND get his hands on the formula.

Whatever the case, I bet he was a crack shot with that pistol...and that he ordered Buffy in with a gun strongly suggests he has some idea of what Buffy is, or at least "much stronger than she looks." (He sure didn't waste using a gun to order the nurse in.) That said, Xander beat him in a fight (skill and experience generally beats the raw strength and vigor of youth, though kids do heal faster), but that could be because Xander had gained some real life experience (and I like to think formal training "off screen") which increased his combat reflexes and skill, and might've also been enhanced from the special steroids (which could explain how he lifts Buffy up with one hand even with monsters trying to drag Buffy back down even as Buffy failed to bring the coach back up using both hands, but then perhaps Buffy only pretended to fail!), that he simply took the coach by surprise.
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See that bothers me too. Its not so much that I don't buy that Buffy would fall for it (I don't but afterall from her side of things she was only hanging out with him), but more that the writers couldn't come up with some better lines for him to woo him with. Its pretty much the standard quirky, sensitive guy act which every human whose linked with Buffy on the show is given. In this case I guess he is just there to move the plot on. Still its pretty weak.
 
I just watched Go Fish and actually really liked it. Xander gets to be a nice guy, Cordy gets to show her caring side, Willow gets to interrogate Johnathon for the first time... Only some scenes (mainly concerning Buffy's terrible taste in men) are kind of bad. Overall, it's an entertaining episode with lots of great character moments! It's better than Inca Mummy Girl and probably Reptile Boy. Yes, I'm defending Go Fish! I know what you guys must be thinking:

"Dude. What is that foulness?"
 
I just remember that the guy who played Michael Scofield in Prison Break is in this episode.

I liked Angelus' brief role in this episode and him spitting out the blood gave Buffy the clue that something was up with the swim team.

This is one of my least favourite season 2 episodes. It's sandwiched between IOHEFY and Becoming which I think doesn't do it any favours. It's pretty much a standalone episode which would've been better off pre-Angelus arc.
 
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