1x06 The Pack

Rip flutie….. you will be missed for a few funny and one wholesome scene.

Worst episode so far, so bad it put me to sleep.

Someone below mentioned how bad the non-vampire episodes have been. I'm surprised how many monsters other than Vampires, the show has focused on, especially only 6 Episodes in.

Also, in 6 episodes, there have been 3 deaths found on-site and a teacher who has abducted students. Maybe the school would be shut down? Just saying.

Xander’s behaviour and everyone being fine with it. :triangular_flag_on_post::skull:

They reaaaaally should stick with the vampires and stop trying to copy Grimm with the demon monster animals. Just kidding! :zany_face: But seriously, more vampires and less monsters, so far the vampireless episodes have been terribly awful (specially the one with the mantis...).

Okay, definitely remembering this one, especially the eating the principal bit, but I forgot the part where the blonde guy rubs up against Xander.

Meh: Totally skippable, but with some laughs and enjoyable scenes. I'd suggest to skip from the scene in the library with the news about Principal Flutie, to the showdown at the hyena exhibit, but really even that's superfluous. The epilogue is the good bit, though, and only depends upon everything up to the aforementioned library scene.

Cordelia doesn't appear in this episode. Nicholas Brendan gives us a taste of what a dark and predatory "bad boy" Xander could have been, and, for the extent of the piercing stares and strutting, he's actually pretty hot. He's also an asshole, and the hyena antics are just cringe TV-- thus the D-Grade plot. But Sarah is still scrumptiously cute as buttons for the discovery phase of the plot, and the last scene is a really cute moment for the quartet.

Also, there's Giles' iconic line: "Testosterone is the great equalizer; it turns all men into morons." All the better for being so pithy for the scene, while also being immediately subverted. Even in the show's pratfalls there are gems scattered among the refuse.