There are spoilers for seasons 1-7 in my post!!!!
There's endless hidden meanings in Restless. I'm still new here, so I'm not sure how much of these meanings everyone has caught, so here's a few off the top of my head:
1.) Tara: "Be back before Dawn"
2.) Many people wear red in this episode, which imbodies death I believe, like Tara and Joyce.
3.) Kitty Fantastico lunges toward the camera the same way the tiger does in the desert in season 5. Very primal.
4.) The big brother comment from Buffy is just simply that she thinks of him as a brother, and that's not exactly what Xander wanted from her. He loved her early on.
5.) Anya driving the icecream truck with the sway of her hands and not touching the wheel is forshadowing of her terrible driving skills, shown off in season 5s "Triangle".
6.) Buffy: "We're not demons" Adam: "Is that a fact?" This year we got incite on the issue, and in fact the first slayer was infused with a demon, or raped in a way.
7.) Willow fears people will see the truth of who she really is, and is stripped of her clothing, only to unveil her outfit from the first episode of season 1, "Welcome to the Hellmouth".
8.) In the graveyard there's many lawn gnomes, and in season 6 Warren uses lawn gnomes to spy on Buffy and her friends with cameras built in them.
9.) Buffy finds a bag with sand in it. Principal Wood gives that same bag to Buffy in "Get it Done" year 7, and it brings her through time into the desert.
10.) "I'm very seldom naughty", Willow exclaims. Obviously she flips out season 6.
11.) Harmony and Reily talk together while Buffy sits on the side of the stage in the play. This forshadows Reily hooking up with a vampire girl in season 5. At the end of the play Buffy's yelling at Reily while Harmony is on the sides crying, sort of like in "Into the Woods".
12.) This one might be a stretch: Giles kneels forward with his pocket watch as if he's waiting for something. The First Slayer sneaks up behind him. In season 7 in "Sleeper", Giles kneels forward talking to Robsin who states "it's started", or the time has come, while a bringer sneaks up behind him. Not sure if that's really a connection.
13.) This might be a stretch too, but Willow peers out her window and senses danger or something along those lines while talking to Tara. In season 6, Warren shoots a stray bullet through Willow and Tara's bedroom window and kills Tara.
14.) The obvious 7:30 on the clock.
15.) Anya tells Buffy she needs to wake up. This happens in season 5 when Buffy goes into a catatonic state and Willow tells her she needs to wake up. In season 7, Joyce also tells Buffy she needs to wake up.
16.) Tara: "You think you know, who you are, what's to come...you haven't even begun". Dracula states the same phrase to Buffy in the 5th year.
17.) Buffy peers into a empty room at the end of the episode, which becomes Dawns room I believe.
There's many more, much more, but I figure the ones I wrote are already well known around here..I mean this is a Buffy fan forum.....
