She fell in love with him and he rebuffed her, actually. Tuvok resisting love, and in the process allowing us to get to the bottom of the Vulcan psyche, is a lot more intriguing than Spock all hot for a redheaded chick. The best part were the flashbacks. It was simply well written, giving us everything from tidbits about the Vulcan education system to good acting to some good, cryptic philosophical babble that I always can dig. Most importantly, it showed what was at the bottom of Vulcanism, warts and all.
Love does seem to be the root from all other emotions grow.
Even hate cannot be without love as an opposite, and you cannot hate unless you seek to preserve something you love. Controverisal, but they may have a point. I left wanting more of it. It's a shame, because we didn't. We get a lot of time was spent on getting the rest of the cast in, with these bad aliens closing the portal and having a meeting and blah blah blah.