I like Clea DuVall, too. She seemed to be everywhere in the late 90's and, you're right, you don't see much of her.
I love this episode. I think that, along with The Pack and Witch, it's my favourite of the first season. It's OK, I know I'm weird.
I watched Angel and I Robot, You Jane. I know you all go for it, but I don't really care much for Angel (the episode, of course). It's not that I don't like it or that it's bad or anything, it just doesn't really appeal to me greatly. I think my favourite bit is with Darla going to Buffy's and her at Angels apartment. That the best scene in the episode, IMO.
I actually prefer I Robot, You Jane. It's a bit silly, but then, so am I.
It also introduces Jenny and her playful flirting with Giles, as well as giving us a modern Giles, if you will, without being an Anti-Giles. I like Willow-centric episodes, but this one is a little goofy.
I love the old tech, though. It seems that between the 50's and the 90's, you could tell which decade you were in simply by looking out your window. The cars, the clothes, the music, the architecture, the ads, the shops, the packaging, everything. It's all seems very much of its time. Since the late 90's though, it seems to've homogenised. Fashion now moves so quickly that you can wear anything and not look out of place, music is everywhere, the cars have almost been perfected to optimise the combination of safety needs, fuel consumption and style. But the tech. It moves and improves so quickly that ten years looks prehistoric, let alone fifteen. Go back five years and you won't see an iPad in a film or on tv. Because they didn't exist. Go back 20 years and Ross has a pager in Friends and everyone thinks it's great. He doesn't have his own phone, despite having a good job, he has a pager.
The clothes look a little like today, but without the sleek styling, but the tech. It's truly prehistoric. That's where the nostalgia is now.
Sorry about that, I seem to've gone a little off piste.