Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 3, Episode 9: The Wish
Written by Marti Noxon; Directed by David GreenwaltWow - a Marti Noxon episode that I wholeheartedly like. Wonders will never cease! In retrospect, I like this considerably more than Lover's Walk, but then I've always had a thing for the "alternate reality" episodes that show up on both Buffy and Angel from time to time. This one is a really powerful one that functions as a macabre, vampiric form of It's a Wonderful Life and also introduces a great character - Anya - that would serve the show well for the next few seasons. The only strange thing is that the Anya that appears here bears absolutely no resemblance to the one that shows up in Season 4 onwards. Sure, they're both played by Emma Caulfield, but this Anya, far from being a sex-obsessed capitalism enthusiast with no understanding of the finer points of human etiquette, is presented here as being quite worldly wise and a lot like Cordelia. It's okay, though - I can live with it. In any event, I don't think they'd have been able to get much mileage out of her if they'd simply used her as Cordelia II in Season 4 and beyond.
Anyway, great episode. Doppelgangland's going to have its work cut out to beat this.
Overall rating: 10/10.
Next time: the confusingly poor Amends.
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I recommend this:
http://simple-ruse.org/soundtrack/?page_id=19
By Anonymous, at 17:11
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