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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sol System: [QB] "The Pack" Some bullies and Xander get possessed by hyena spirts, and go nuts. This episode features some of the most well-groomed and attractive high school bullies. These kids really ought to be too busy keeping up with their hip lifestyles to have much time left over for focused bullying. Surely random, Cordelia-style snarking would be more their speed? Willow and Xander open up the episode by being very excited about zebra sex. Did I mention they were at the zoo? Anyway. I guess this is foreshadowing for the sexual frustrations which are to follow. For good measure, some chimpanzee footage. Already I don't trust this zookeeper, with his creepy hyena legends. Is he even qualified for the job? Xander discovers courage, and then gets possessed. But, hang on, not to get ahead of myself, but I thought it required a "predatory act?" Let's all go to the rock club and eat some croissants! All things considered, Xander isn't really acting any more unusual while possessed than he usually acts. "Kid's fat." I like how he assumes the problem is that Willow and Buffy don't get the joke. Is the library, and the part of the library right in front of the entrance, really the best place for covert martial arts training? Xander possessed has very little time for math homework. When is he ever going to have to use geometry out on the savannah? The hyena kids ruthlessly turn on their own in an aggressive dodgeball match. Xander's in with the rock/stoner kids? Poor pig. This slow-motion walk with accompanying emo guitar song is lengthy. Willow here reminds me of Fry being disappointed when Bender doesn't try to kill him while possessed in Futurama. I'd think this attempt at sexual assault would make things awfully awkward later. And now, the part of the episode that gets me, in the sense of I can't quite buy it, or, I can, but it is too weird. The hyena kids eat the principal and no one hears. I put it to you that beating and biting a human being to death is not a quiet operation. Plus, like, they kill the principal! I mean, they were just mean bullies before, and now they are in serial killer territory. "The official theory is wild dogs got into his office somehow." Holy crap! At least nobody knows how to deal with vampires, but wild dogs? The town would freak out! Anyway, there are a lot of extreme closeups in this episode. Also, the blond hyena girl is pretty cute, and I'm pretty sure she was in the short-lived (and terrible) Cleopatra 2525 with Gina Torres. Or, I don't know, maybe normal standards of good and bad no longer apply to shows designed to appeal to the Xena/Hercules demographic. You know, attempting to kill Willow, as the (now revealed to be) evil zookeeper attempts here, seems like overkill, when the bullies managed to do the job with simple bullying, unless we're supposed to believe that they really were going to feed that kid to the hyenas in the beginning. And the end. But Xander remembers the whole thing. So what about the others? They killed a man and ate his flesh! There must be entire psychological journals devoted to Sunnydale High School. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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