SO the swim team is all of a sudden hot stuff at Sunnydale, the first athletic team there that has been any good in years and years. It turns out they are good because the whole team is slowly actually turning into fishes! Fish type monsters anyway. Originally the gang thinks that the swim team boys are being eaten by a demon because they keep finding the boys' skins laying around, but it turns out they are actually turning into demons, and their skin is what's left behind. All thanks to the glory hungry swim coach, who is dosing them with steroids via the steam room.
One of the things I like about this episode is that Xander actually gets to be kind of a stud. He tries out for the swim team and makes it, because the good swimmers keep "disappearing". When he first shows up in his speedo the girls are gaga for him (until they realize it's him). But the cat's out of the bag...Xander is secretly hot! He also gets to be the hero, pulling Buffy out the of depths of the sewer with one arm, just in time to keep her from being raped by all the fish dudes that are swimming around down there. I'm sure his super strength is due to the steroids he was unknowingly inhaling in the steam room, but still...heroic nonetheless. Way to go Xander!
Mark here... I agree with Laurel, this episode had a "Creature of the Black Lagoon" slash "I Was a Teenage Swamp Thing" B-movie vibe which worked well for it. Also, we got to see Prison Break hottie Wentworth Miller in an early role. He can't act his was out of a shoe but he's easy on the eyes! There's not too much else to say about the episode, it's clearly a filler episode in between the main season arc story of Buffy and Angel, but it's actually refreshing because we again get to see the core Scooby Gang in action and not worry about all the Buffy Angel drama, which is wearing thin on both of us, to be honest.
Overall, 3 stakes. We'd say 3 and a half, but we're not doing halves...:)
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