Which brings us to the rooftop in the future here we have Fray begging for her existence Buffy dismissing it like it was white noise. Because of the ONE complex (I call it Keanuitis) she lives for the present, her present, she can’t think about two hundred years of history when she’s not in the 21 century to save it (the sequence of Buffy going through the old watcher diaries attests to that. She can’t stand failure especially now).

But what does 'failure' mean here other than failure to create a better world for the people of Fray's time? What is Buffy apologising for when she knocks Melaka out if she really believes that she's nothing more than white noise?