

Pheromones, shneromones - he could have just lured Veruka into a cage and locked her up without him, right? But did he enjoy it? I think he did, or he might have found another way to deal with the situation. To prevent killings is an extremely good reason.

So did Oz have a good reason to cheat on Willow? Yes, absolutely. Having his character's trademark stoicism fall to pieces not once (when he yelled) but twice (when he almost cried in the car) was quite effective. It was painful watching poor fashion-challenged Willow coming to Oz's place in leather pants to seduce him it was even more painful to see Willow actually turn to the black arts, although I knew she'd stop before committing herself. The profuse tears were tremendously effective and very much in character. I have to commend Alyson Hannigan on some amazing tearduct action, and I don't mean that sarcastically. And they even finally dealt with the wolf thing, which had to happen eventually. It was heartwrenching and intense, but open-ended at the same time so that from here on out, anything could happen. So the writers had to find a way to write a popular character out of the show and they had no way of knowing if it was temporary or permanent - and they still did a hell of a job. Or the girl caught the guy in one of the seven annual minutes he's legitimately too preoccupied to do it." Willow: "What if the girl wants to, and the guy doesn't? That's a bad sign, right?"
