Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 2, Episodes 9 and 10: What's My Line?
Part 1Written by Howard Gordon & Marti Noxon; Directed by David Solomon
Part 2
Written by Marti Noxon; Directed by David Semel
(a.k.a. In Which Buffy Learns That Slaying Is Not A Job, It's Who She Is)
Despite some banal dialogue and clumsy plot mechanics, this two-parter is really not bad at all. The second episode is better than the first, but I think you have to take them as a whole in the same manner as Surprise/Innocence, Becoming and Graduation Day. It's essentially a 90-minute episode rather than the conventional 45-minute affair, and as such is slower paced with significantly more build-up and exposition. Of course, this makes Marti Noxon's unsubtle dialogue more infuriating than usual. (Then again, as the second part has better dialogue than the first, perhaps we should be blaming Howard Gordon instead?) And don't even get me started on the bizarre quasi-Jamaican accent of the slayer Kendra - what the hell what that about?
Oh, and did David Boreanaz change his facial expression in the conversation in Buffy's room near the start of Part 1? I think he did!
7/10 for Part 1, 8/10 for Part 2.
Next time: Ted, starring the one and only John Ritter.
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