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Bored Now (Doppelgangland)

Doppelgangland is a very good episode.

There’s a version of this essay that is nothing but that sentence over and over again, phrased in different ways. It’s a nearly self-evident truth – this episode is uncontroversially and near-universally beloved. IMDB’s ranking has it as the best episode of Season Three, and 8th overall. It’s regularly mentioned as a season highlight by dedicated and casual fans alike. Vampire Willow is one of the show’s most memorable villains, and she only gets this episode to shine at all, after being criminally underused in The Wish. Even Joss Whedon ranks it among his own top 10. Fan ratings aren’t everything – the fact that Restless comes in at #33 is a clear indicator of the voters’ collective lack of taste – but when a fandom so clearly agrees on something, I think it’s worth asking why.

In one way, that question has a very easy answer: this episode is very fun to watch. Alyson Hannigan dazzles as the quietly charismatic Vampire Willow, dominating the screen with a very specific almost-awkward swagger. She then channels her inner Tatiana Maslany and delivers sparkling turns, first as Willow-playing-Vampire-Willow and then as Vampire-Willow-playing-Willow. She gets such joy from playing up the differences and similarities between both characters – perhaps my favourite bit coming in her demonstration of how terrible both Willows are at improvisation acting. Hannigan has been quietly improving as an actor since Welcome to the Hellmouth, and now shows herself to sit comfortably beside Gellar and Head as one of the strongest members of the cast.

And it’s more than just Vampire Willow – the whole show is singing. The humour is bright and zippy. Every character, now settled in the roles they’ll fill for the rest of the season, gets moments to shine. Anya is starting to emerge as a character who is recognisably Anya. The climactic fight in the Bronze is probably the best group action scene so far, and might have a shout to be the show’s best ever. Even the tertiary characters are in form: Devon’s insistence that only “fruity jazz bands” know more than three chords is quietly one of the funniest moments of the episode. This is an episode that starts being fun early on, and never stops.

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coraniaid asked:

Dead Girl And Rat Girl for the WIP ask game?

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Dead Girl and Rat Girl, from this list of my wips here, as the name suggests is born entirely of the "Hi. How've you been?" "Rat. You?" "Dead." exchange. I really wanted to explore that space of Buffy and Amy similarly being dragged out of a terrible fate, dropped back into everyday life with minimal support to get through what happened to them and dealing with that by making some somewhat self destructive choices. Choices like Amy becoming Buffy's magic sort of drug dealer to help them both take the edge off. I also really hope that this working title does not become the actual title but I do have a lot of precedence of Adjective Girl(s) for episode titles so I could probably get away with it.

This is my newest wip so it's alas similarly short as but at least this one I'm not planning for it to be a full rewrite like 'S6 Kendra + Amy AU'. This one I just want to be a oneshot stretching at least as far as Older and Far Away.

The snippet here is near the beginning, the context being shortly post Wrecked Buffy's gone to visit Amy and make sure she's not going to be anywhere near Willow and more importantly Dawn but is getting a bit sidetracked by how much Amy's not handling everything.

#fic#thanks for the ask#ask game#also because i am predictable poor choices like them hooking up in the storage room of the doublemeat palace#after buffy puts in a good word for amy to get a job there#cause its not like amy has many better prospects#btvs
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