Today's Buffy
What did Darla see in him? Did she watch him for a while beforehand or was it a sudden feeling?
Awesome, ancient things! Is it a real script saying real things?
Giles, never delay this sort of thing! You live in a horror show.
So darling, these five.
Chance, fate? This sudden moment, that changes the course of things.
Bad wig.
To Buffy, it's all her fault. Xander has a point, but he has lost perspective if he thinks that of Buffy and Giles. Buffy's not trying to just forget anything ever happened and be blissfully happy. That wouldn't happen even if she got Angel back! She genuinely doesn't know what to do, and she doesn't want Willow to risk herself, and she wants to bring Angel back (because it's her fault, to her, that he lost his soul and killed Miss Calendar.) This is part of wanting to make up for her actions, at least to Angel, and to the world because she believes he'll do good in it.
Kendra! I know what happens to you so I'm not as happy as I would be.
This gives Buffy a reason to tip in favor of the Restoration and even ask Willow to put herself in danger -as she always does, heroically, which Buffy has come to accept. It's not her only reason, but it's a good reason and a good deciding factor. She's right.
I prefer to believe Angel "fell in empathy with Buffy," to quote this spoilery B/A meta by Lettered, formerly known as TKP:
http://lettered.livejournal.com/16982.html
This is because I'd rather have a positive view and I'd be moved too if I were in his place.
Angel's really into this apocalypse thing, isn't he?
How'd he convince her to commit suicide with pseudoreligious overtones? He's not the Master. Though he was to have been at the Master's side.
It was a trap, as in the pilot. Like with other things however, it's more complicated this time around. Kendra was there just in case. Whose Slayer senses conveniently don't work for the plot. Xander's broken his arm again. More pilot parallels.
I don't think I got that line until last year.
The first time we see Drusilla as a badass, and I can't be happy about it. I'll never be happy about it. Also, Kendra's death calls back to Buffy's.
How is it that they play the love theme here? Maybe that's a misnomer, and it should really be called the loss theme as in one talk given at a Buffy conference.
Buffy season two trailers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWhiZF8xzXQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22TAQvg3Vys&feature=related