...Oz….don't you love me?
Summary Buffy is out hunting on campus and slays a
vamp who has no appreciation for righteous punning.
As she wishes for a more competent adversary the camera pulls back in one of the best reveals
on the show.
There are many many great moments in the series that act as icons for what the show does.
But this is probably one of my favorites.
The damsel's back is turned.
The evil creature of the night lords over her monologuing, and our expectations are
instantly subverted.
That night the gang is commenting about how the Bronze is such a comfort as
Giles, still in the midst of his midlife crisis awkwardly shoehorns himself into the Bronze-going
Scoobies.
It is positively heart-warming to watch Giles try and fit in due to his desperate need for
a social life.
Onstage comes Veruca and again we see Oz's clear preoccupation with her.
The next day Oz and Willow wake in his bed.
It's a lovely little scene.
We see such easy comfortable intimacy between them.
Willow speaks softly and plays with Oz's arm hair.
I love his line when she's dreaming.
"Come back to me."
Oz is wolfing that evening and Willow says there's a wika group on campus she wants
to checkout.
They meet for lunch and the only table open is one with Veruca sitting there.
At first Oz resists but Veruca seems open and inviting.
The two of them talk shop for a moment.
"What do you use?
A fifty or a 120."
Star Trek had this thing the called techno babble.
The writer's would just put that flag in a script and there was a small team of guys
whose job it was to insert stuff that sounded convincing.
"Captain we've got a problem with the phase inducers...or some other damn thing."
I wondered if Oz's lines occasionally had a *band babble* flag.
Willow shows up, tries to hang, and things become slightly awkward.
That night Oz locks himself up for wolf time but the wolf has other ideas.
Oz wolf chases down professor Walsh who ends up in a hairy crossfire.
See what I did there
The next morning he wakes up in the woods.
And Veruca's reveal brings a hard truth for Oz.
"You know what I am.
You've known since the first time you saw me."
Veruca nearly seduces to Oz in human form and Oz manages to hold his urges at bay.
He returns to his dorm to look for news of any damage he and Veruca did that night and
Willow shows up in a new outfit her insecurity bought for her.
She speaks as frankly to him as anyone has at this point, telling him she knows she's
been overthinking things.
"Maybe you could help me stop.
I'd really appreciate anything you could do."
Ugh.
That is SO naked.
Please show me I matter to you.
Please?
I can feel her insecurity in my chest.
And then...
"You don't want to?"
Willow reaches out to Xander for support, something she really hasn't done much of
since the events of Season 2.
To some degree after Lovers Walk, Willow's friendship with Buffy supplanted her's with
Xander.
Buffy, on the trail of the wolf attacks finds out Oz got out the night before.
He tells her nothing happened.
A music montage ensues and we see Oz juggling with a significant decision.
The cuts tell us he's weighing what to do.
Should he call Willow?
Tell her whats going on?
Confess?
He picks up the phone.
"So this is why you called me here."
Oz attempts to reason with Veruca and get her in the cage with him while the two of
them boil in their incoming wolf hormones.
She is having none of it and appeals one last time to the animal.
"Did you want me?"
He succumbs and the next morning…
There are so many layers to the fallout between Oz and Willow.
Her insecurities being validated.
"I knew.
I knew you jerk."
Their history rearing it's head "I know how it feels.
I remember."
- "What so this is payback."
God this is a good scene, carried by the character's history together and two wonderful performances.
It's a scene that visualizes in a short time many intrinsic struggles to relationships,
including our desperation causing us to barrel forward and say things we don't mean.
It's an unfortunate aspect to our humanity.
We need time to process, most of all in the moments where we don't have it, and damage
is being done.
Willow reveals to Buffy what's been going on with Oz and Veruca, and Buffy takes Oz
hunting for her.
When she leaves, Willow once again turns to magic.
Oz and Buffy find Veruca's bait in the woods and realize she's after Willow.
Willow can't bring herself to complete the revenge spell.
Veruca attacks and wolf Oz kills her before getting tranq'd by Buffy.
And then...no.
Not yet.
Lets come back to it.
I have to say again, working on the reviews always gives me newfound appreciation of the
episodes.
There are a short list of scenes and episodes in Buffy that are transcendent.
That elevate beyond the show itself.
And I've always thought the final scene in Wild at Heart was one of them.
But to me the scene felt awkwardly paired to an episode that was beneath it.
I could never totally sort out why.
Over the course of three and a half seasons, the wolf/id stuff had been well covered but
never really developed into anything more interesting.
None of the wolf episodes have been favorites of mine.
"You're a girl."
And this episode, other than the final scene, felt a bit perfunctory to me.
A necessity given Seth Green had a movie deal he wanted to take and the producers let him
leave.
This episode was where the clipping was made.
And it was done in a way I found frustrating, and justified my frustration by saying it
violated character.
Oz would never cheat.
I couldn't really have been more wrong, but in my defense, I was looking for someone
to blame.
I'll get into that in a minute.
Oz's preoccupation with Veruca has been sprinkled throughout the first few episodes
of this season, if a little awkwardly at times.
But the broad strokes of the episode were strongly foreshadowed in Halloween, where
the gangs deepest fears were manifested.
Oz feared he wouldn't be able to control the wolf and that he might hurt Willow.
And Willow feared that Oz would leave him.
"Oz, don't leave me."
Within the episode itself there is also some foreshadowing I found clever.
The opening in the Bronze very elegantly lays things out.
Willow is going on about how reassuring the Bronze is due to its predictability and Oz's
dialogue ties him metaphorically to the Bronze.
: "The bronze is like a comfy blanky."
"I thought I was your comfy blanky."
At which point Giles shows up at the Bronze to hang...for the first time...suggesting
that no matter what - all things can change.
Including the Bronze and Oz.
And maybe, Oz's impulsivity and poor communication might not be as out of character as it seems.
Don't forget, in Phases when he found out he was a werewolf, rather than confiding in
Willow, Buffy, and Giles, all educated in these matters he tried to take matters into
his own hands.
Ultimately putting Willow in danger.
In Beauty and Beasts he internalized his frustration over the wolf and pushed Willow away.
"Get away from me."
In reality, his decision to call Veruca to the cage instead of Willow has been pretty
well set up.
Oz feels ashamed of the Wolf.
It's also possible he'd just planned to lock Veruca in there with him.
Earlier in the episode Buffy even suggested she might capture Veruca and bring her to
him.
And Oz believes he can control or ignore the id.
"Or you're the wolf all the time and this human face is just your disguise."
That it is separate from him, not a part of who he is.
And then his ID consumes him.
You might say, he's become an object in the world at the mercy of its circumstances.
The philosophy is always present.
"She's like me.
I didn't have a choice."
"But you did.
You could've told somebody."
"You don't have a good choice but you have a choice."
So I think I have revised my feelings about this episode.
I think it's kind of brilliant.
It's just very hard to watch the ones you love doing wrong.
But dear God do I appreciate the show's willingness to go there.
And once again, we see Willow resorting to magic to try and manage her feelings.
At this point, a well established pattern.
She stops herself but it's significant to note that making the right decision doesn't
bring her any relief from pain.
In fact, Oz leaves.
This episode is also significant in that Whedon and company decided it didn't need to relate
to Buffy either directly or metaphorically, a rare occurrence for the show.
In the DVD commentary for the episode, Whedon said that they spent time trying to figure
out how it would tie to her, and finally decided it wasn't necessary.
Buffy could still be strong and save the day but ultimately, the episode was just about
Oz and Willow.
And that was enough.
As stunning as the final scene may be, as beautiful and poignantly acted, that really
may be all there is to say.
There is no subtext.
No hidden meaning.
This moment is not for us.
It is for Oz and Willow.
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