Go Fish

With a smile, wink, and nod to a classic horror creature, the Buffy version here does provide a few twists with explanation. Although many of the ideas seem short on refinement as well as execution, solid writing still prevails. Creatures were actually alright by me, with a faithful rendition to the original. A little re-hash as far as the after-school theme which reminded me a little of the earlier frat party.

Cordelia got the best one-liner joke and surprisingly endearing scene when Xander appeared to be a monster. Unlike Buffy, Cordelia was not about to let her boyfriend's change deter her perseverance in making a relationship work. Admirable, even if it were impossible. Xander too was a fun character to watch in this episode. Entertaining, off-beat, I'm fine with this episode as long as it didn't cause the series to go unfinished.

Great episode one of my favorites I don't understand why is this low score in the third and second seasons are most of Buffy's best episodes. The episode has a comedy tension and dynamics what more.

When this episode started, it seemed like a normal episode of Buffy. However, once the first person was apparently killed by a monster and the monster can be seen slinking into the sewers on the distance, I legitimately expected The X-Files theme music to start playing and then got surprised that the Buffy theme song started playing. This episode really reads just like an episode of the X-Files from start to finish. If you had dropped Mulder and Scully into this episode, it wouldn't have seemed out of place at all.

//Also, I think that this may be the only time that we see a vampire tasting drugs in someone's system. Why is that never mentioned again? Is Angelus tasting the monster-y fish thing that's about to emerge or the steroids themselves? If vampire's can really taste drugs, then it's a shame Spike doesn't test Buffy like that when she thinks that she's in a mental institution in season six's "Normal Again." Or when Riley's all pumped full of super-pills in season four's "The 'I' In Team." Just a thought.//

Actually, in "School Hard" Spike bragged that he'd been at Woodstock and fed of a flower person, and then spent the next six hours watching his hand move. Hm. This doesn't tell us if he TASTED the drugs or if he merely got affected by them. Perhaps it wasn't the taste of drugs that made Angelus spit out the blood, because, you know, maybe these swimmer boys had changed so much from the "drugs" that they no longer had human blood. Human blood, fish blood, pig blood... big difference.

" Go fish" is a sweet little episode of Buffy, not one to remember , not one to skip, just a solid funny episode.

Once more Xander save the life of Buffy, not Angel, and yet Buffy love Angel not Xander, how unfair this is, and sad for her, she could have been so happy with Xander.

On the other hand, this episode offer a great scene with Cordelia, where we can see their relashionship might bé more serious than expected. There is still the suspence to know with who Xander will end up, Buffy Willow or Cordelia or someone new ?

I dont understand some reviews calling this episode beeing like the X files, guys wake up the show IS like the X files since the beggining, standalone about a different Supernatural event every weeks, and a main story on the other hand ( for x files aliens, for Buffy vampires) smae kind of show, this episode does not look more like the X files than 10/15 from Season 1 and 2 and im sure all the others seasons.

Also its kind of an insult to the X files to compare it to this Buffy épisode, The X files is a masterpiece of a show, with nearly every épisodes beeing better than the best of the buffy ep.