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9.2/10
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While casting a magic spell, Anya and Willow accidentally summon Willow's evil double from an alternate universe.While casting a magic spell, Anya and Willow accidentally summon Willow's evil double from an alternate universe.While casting a magic spell, Anya and Willow accidentally summon Willow's evil double from an alternate universe.
IMDb RATING
9.2/10
4.1K
YOUR RATING
- Director
- Writers
- Joss Whedon
- Jane Espenson(executive story editor)
- Douglas Petrie(story editor)
- Stars
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- Director
- Writers
- Joss Whedon
- Jane Espenson(executive story editor)
- Douglas Petrie(story editor)
- Stars
Anthony Head
- Rupert Gilesas Rupert Giles
- (as Anthony Stewart Head)
Emma Caulfield Ford
- Anyaas Anya
- (as Emma Caulfield)
- Director
- Writers
- Joss Whedon
- Jane Espenson(executive story editor)
- Douglas Petrie(story editor)
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Storyline
Anyanka, the demon who used her power to grant wishes to let Cordelia unwillingly create a world without Buffy as Sunnydale slayer, failed since then to get top-rank demon D'Hoffryn to rehabilitate her, but finally gets a chance to succeed in her menial incarnation as Sunnydale High pupil Anya: Willow, who is frustrated as a girl and individual, always taken for granted, in Buffy's shadow and just got railroaded by principal Snyder to 'tutor', or in fact slavishly do the paper writing on her own, for a spoiled jock brat, hunky Percy West, who even explicitly barks at her as his menial flunky, naively accepts to help 'Anya' with a black magic spell. Willow realizes only too late she's really working for the wrong side, stops before Anyanka's power-amulet is revalidated, but still summons a parallel Willow from a black dimension where she's a master vampire, who now makes her grand entry in Drusilla-style at the Bronze, co-existing with gentle Willow. The gang has no time to mourn 'the best of us', who urgently must join in again with Angel, while the new official Watcher, Wesley Wyndam-Pryce from England, proves of little use, to survive and get rid of the dark 'alien' version, while both go undercover as the other... —KGF Vissers
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- TV-PG
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Did you know
- TriviaJoss Whedon liked the character of Vampire Willow when she was first introduced in The Wish (1998) so much that he wrote this specifically for her.
- GoofsAnya tells Willow "I heard you were a powerful Wicca," the first of numerous times in which the term is misused. Wicca is a religion, and someone who practices the religious is Wiccan.
- Quotes
[the gang looks at the vampire version of Willow from an alternate reality]
Rupert Giles: It's extraordinary.
Willow Rosenberg: It's horrible. That's me as a vampire? I'm so evil, and skanky... And I think I'm kinda gay.
Buffy Summers: Willow, just remember, a vampire's personality has nothing to do with the person it was.
Angel: Well, actually...
[pauses as Willow and Buffy look at him]
Angel: That's a good point.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Gift (2001)
Top review
Buffy - and Joss - at its finest
Every "genre" show has an episode that I consider "the show that launched a thousand fanfics", and this is definitely one of Buffy's. (Buffy has several, which is both a symptom of and a cause of its enduring fan base.) "Dopplegangland" has hilarious lines of dialog which comes thick and fast, and the comic timing is excellent on the part of everyone - but who could lose with those witty lines? An atmosphere of strange kink runs through it, used to great comic effect, as well as displaying secret, hidden sides to characters in subtle moments and reactions that only become apparent later in the season, or in the series as a whole. It threatens to get too silly at times, but it never does; the laughs are too smart and too genuine. This is Joss Whedon at the top of his game as both scriptwriter and director, and is the episode that made me into a fan of Whedon - and Buffy.
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- Jemiah
- Jan 22, 2008
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