Buffy Season Two Episode Nine

[koganbot]

"The Order Of Turaka! Isn't that overkill?"

First of a two-parter. At career week, Xander is bitter at his poor prospects, Buffy depressed by her nonprospects; meanwhile, in the decryption bunker, the sentence "Debase the beef canoe" strikes Spike as meaningless; he, in turn, strikes the man who decoded it, then shifts attention back to his codependent relationship.

Pure pleasure at the start, Xander's wit getting funnier and more brutal as he seesaws between depression and deprecation, and excellent ham and cheese from the vampires. Episode gets less interesting after the second commercial, as assassins try assassinating, and defense and suspense mounts. Script does find a way to put Xander and Cordelia in the same house. Double cliffhanger as Worm Man sets beady eye on them, while in a plot twist on the other side of town, unexpected semantic confusion erupts between "slaying" and "assassinating." Stay tuned...

Comments

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

Is the reply to your opener "I think it's just the right amount of kill"?

[koganbot]

Real close. It's "No, I think it's just enough kill" (uttered by Spike, naturally).