Re: Another question about Oz

[danspector@xxxxxxxxx]

Nice history on the werewolf thing, tater. Personally, I'm with you--I
figure Joss was just leaving his options open on the scratch issue
(probably because they didn't have you to tell them all the details
<g>), but the lengths they went to get around it put me in the
"scratches bad" camp. Particularly noticeable is when Ozwolf pins Faith
in "Beauty and the Beasts", yet somehow doesn't break her skin, even
though the Slayer-healing would take care of any mauling she might
suffer.

I suppose we can strain the fanwank and say that **the characters**
didn't know whether scratching caused lycanthropy, either, especially
since the legends had been wrong regarding the three-day moon.
Therefore they took pains to avoid it, under a "better safe than hairy"
policy.

And I think the show might also have been cautious about this because
Oz's lycanthropy (and thus Oz/Willow) was basically being played as a
metaphor for HIV-positive romance. Showing him drawing blood would have
been disquieting, given the analogies they were playing with.

Or perhaps I'm overthinking again.

Dan