Dopplegangland
The Good;
The beginning of the father/daughter relationship between Faith and The Mayor, Anya comes into her own, VampWillow is a joy to behold, Wes actually makes himself useful, all of the library scenes are comedy classics and the lesbian subtext rapidly starts to become text. The great final gag.
The Bad;
None, it's all fabulous
Best line;
Willow (appreciating her cleavage in VampWillow's leathers) "Gosh, look at those!"
Character death;
Poor Sandy, although this isn't the last we'll see of her. And VampWillow get's her dusty desserts back in the Wishworld.
Shot;
VampWillow by real Willow.
Tied up;
Nope although Vampwillow is caged
Knocked out;
Anya and VampWillow
Women good/men bad;
VampWillow; "Bitch!" (all in the delivery). The beginning of the epic hostility between Anya and Willow.
Jeez!;
VampWillow killing Sandy is akin to snuff. Also her breaking of the other vamps fingers
Kinky dinky;
How much time have you got? VampWillow has the hots for everything in sight, Xander, Willow, Sandy. She speaks of 'riding people in chains like ponys' (and I've met more than a few Alysson Hannigan fans over the years who would gladly volunteer). Plenty of naughty touching. Meanwhile Faith refers to 'all the screwing' at her hotel and the Mayor as 'Sugardaddy' but he turns down her advances, making her actually love him more. Best of all is the scary visual place of Willow and Oz playing 'Mistress of Pain' (I'm sure there's a fanfic somewhere?). Percy says he 'owns Willow's ass' but actually it seems to be the other way around. Willow says she feels like 'Dying a virgin'
Calling Captain Subtext;
Will refers to snuggling and thinks her vamp self is 'kinda gay'. She also get's a curious look on her face at the thought of 'breeding' with Percy. VampWillow fancies everything in sight but her lusting after Cordelia's neck is especially interesting considering VampWill's already had a bite in The Wish. Willow's jealousy of Faith is very apparent. Note VampWill still loves Xander much in the same way Spike and Dru still love one another (maybe they were sired by Dru in the Wishverse?). Giles seems to have a very real affection for Will and as we'll later learn she has the same for him. We learn that VampWillow has a great deal in common with real Will.
Guantanamo Bay;
Pretty much everyone is ruthless all around, the plan for luring the vamps out is masterful. Again Buffy shows her skill as a general and not just a fighter.
The dodgy message of the week is to make athletes care about history tests you should beat them up?
Scoobies to the ER;
Not this week
Questions and observations;
The first appearance of Percy and D'Hoffryn. Devon back again, Oz and Angel seem to have a pretty good relationship to judge from their conversation. Faith continues her slide but can't kill for the Mayor yet. Wes saves Cordy for the first but not last time. According to Angel your human self influences your vamp self (as we see with Spike). Xander is oddly pleased at the thought of his vamp self. I figure that the Wishworld run's paralell to the real world but stops dead the moment Giles smashes the necklace. Anya is 1120 years old.
When you look at the scene in the Bronze where VampWillow beats up Percy and Xander asks 'Is it a funny thing?' it looks as though it's Larry amidst the crowd but his name isn't in the titles
This ep features one of the most understated but important scenes in the whole series. VampWillow walks down Sunnydale mainstreet. In her world where Buffy never came to Sunnydale it's a bleak and deserted wasteland. In the real world, it's full of happy, laughing people. Sure people still die in Sunnydale but the difference one person can make! D'Hoffryn says Anya will live out her mortal life and die. Why does Anya go to Sunnydale High, did she create parents etc for herself as well? Or is she hiding out from those seeking vengence? Buffy has lots of sympathy with Faith, Willow says that Buffy would never kill people but she does. Some lovely moody music at the Bronze. Wonderful performance from Alysson Hannigan, the way she slips from real Willow to VampWillow and effortlessly back again then to real Willow pretending to be VampWillow and VampWillow pretending to be real Willow is just masterful.
The Bronze must go through pool cues at a fearsome rate. 'Dingoes ate my baby' apparently know only three chords but nowadays that doesn't seem to bar anyone from musical success.
Marks out of 10; 10/10, totally brilliant, possibly the best ep of Buffy ever?
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Episode Summary
Anya convinces an unsuspecting Willow to assist her with a spell that will return her amulet and, with it, her Vengeance Demon powers. Willow, sensing something wrong with the magic, balks at the last minute and disrupts the spell. Instead of returning the amulet, the spell summons the vampire Willow from the alternate universe in "The Wish" and sets her loose in Sunnydale.moreless
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Sarah Michelle Gellar
Buffy Anne Summers
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Seth Green
Daniel 'Oz' Osbourne
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David Boreanaz
Angel
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Trivia
ADD TRIVIA- Anya says to the bartender that she is 1120-years-old (and therefore old enough to consume alcohol). Edit
- When good Willow is upset about Vamp Willow being sleazy and trashy and "kinda gay Buffy tries to tell her that when a person becomes a vampire there is nothing left of the original personality. Angel is about to correct her, but stops when he gets a sharp look from Buffy. This is foreshadowing Willow's romance with another woman, Tara, in season four. Edit
- As vampire Willow walks down the main street center line two kids can be seen coming out of the theater tugging at one another. When she turns to look back over her left shoulder those same two kids are again coming out of the theater tugging at each other. Edit
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Notes
ADD NOTES- According to an interview with Alyson Hannigan in 2005, before she was dating now husband Alexis Denisof, she had a huge crush on him. During this episode, in the scene with vampire Willow, Cordelia, and Wesley in the bathroom, Wesley takes out a bottle of holy water to keep away Vamp Willow. While he was taking it out he made a noise like "tuhh" that made Alyson crack up for multiple takes. Edit
- This episode is Joss Whedon's 5th favorite of the series according to The Last Sundown featurette on the Season 7 DVD box set. Edit
- This is one of Alyson Hannigan's favorite episodes of the series, according to an October, 2005 interview with PopWatch, an online feature of Entertainment Weekly. Edit
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Quotes
ADD QUOTES- Xander: (to Willow, holding up a cross) Get back! Get back demon! (looks at cross, shakes it like that will make it work better, and holds it back out in front of him again) Edit
- Willow: What's going on? (gang look sad then shocked at Willow's arrival) Jeez, Who died... Oh God! Who died? Edit
- (Vamp Willow glares at Good Willow) Good Willow: No more snuggles? Edit
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Allusions
ADD ALLUSIONS- Anya: I just need a secondary to create a temporal fold. I heard you were a pretty powerful Wicca, so... Wicca is a religion which involves the belief in and use of magick, but unlike the way that it is portrayed in the show, Wicca is strictly peaceful with the primary rule "An it harm none, do what ye will." Edit
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Faith: (to the Mayor) Thanks, sugar daddy!
"Sugar daddy" is a term used to describe a wealthy, middle-aged man who gives expensive gifts to a young woman in return for her companionship or intimacy. Edit -
Buffy: The Watcher's Council shrink is heavy into tests. He's got tests for everything. T.A.T.s, Rorschach, associative logic.
T.A.T. is the Thematic Apperception Test, developed by Henry A. Murray, an American psychologist, which uses a standard series of provocative pictures and have the patient construct a story around it. Each story would be then carefully analyzed to discover the problem the patient might've been going through. The Rorschach test was developed by Swiss psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach who used a group of standardized inkblots and asked the patient what came to his mind when he saw one of those pictures. Edit
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