Ooh - wonderful analysis, as per usual. I probably ought to step out of the shadows and say it more often, but I love having you on my friends-list - because you come up with all these really lovely and interesting thoughts on the Buffyverse. It's been a pleasure reading your perspective on various elements of the show.

Thank you. That's really wonderful to hear.

What I love, though, is the level of poignant irony and double-meaning in the speech she gives her friends, when she tells them how grateful she is for being brought back.

So true. I love that line you mention, how she tells the truth and yet lets them put in their own definitions of the terms (and I do see Xander having a moment of doubt before he accepts Willow's version).

Wonderful writing, wonderful acting.