She joins the campus Wicca group, meeting Tara Maclay, eventually falling in love with and choosing to be with her even when Oz returns to Sunnydale after getting his lycanthropic tendencies under control.

As Willow gives a book report in front of her high school class, she discovers herself wearing the same mousy outfit she wore in the first episode of the show (" Welcome to the Hellmouth ") as her friends and classmates shout derisively at her, and Oz and Tara whisper intimately to each other in the audience.

The actors were not told the end result of the Willow – Oz – Tara storyline, not sure what the eventual trajectory of the relationship would be, until Hannigan said, " Then finally it was, ' Great!

Some fans loyal to Willow reacted angrily as she chose to be with Tara when Oz made himself available, and they lashed out at Tara and Amber Benson on the fansite message boards.

Where in her relationship with Oz she described herself as belonging to him, Tara states that she belongs to Willow.

Although the show's writers and producers received a minimal negative reaction from Willow choosing Tara over Oz, the response from viewers and critics alike was overwhelming towards Whedon for killing Tara, accusing him of homophobia.

The knowledge that Willow now loves Tara makes Oz leave Sunnydale for good, though he and Willow each affirm the depth and permanence of their connection.

It is the first time Tara is introduced to the Scooby Gang as a whole, and Willow must choose between her and Oz.

The film is notable for the absences of several of its supporting characters from the first two films, including: Chuck " Sherminator " Sherman ( Chris Owen ), Heather ( Mena Suvari ), Vicky ( Tara Reid ), Nadia ( Shannon Elizabeth ), Matt Stifler ( Eli Marienthal ), Jessica ( Natasha Lyonne ), Tom Myers ( Casey Affleck ), and Chris " Oz " Ostreicher ( Chris Klein.

Oz arranges to talk with Willow later, and after Oz leaves, Tara also leaves the incredibly uncomfortable situation.

Tara comes by in the morning while Willow is away, and upon having Oz answer the door she gets nervous and leaves.

Buffy is even more shocked as Willow subtly explains that her relationship with Tara is now serious and that complicates things with Oz.

Willow tells Tara that she and Oz only talked the night before, and then they hug.

Oz and Tara have a confrontation and after smelling Willow on Tara, Oz concludes that the two are romantically involved.

Werewolf Oz chases Tara into a classroom, and then Riley and the Initiative guys take Oz away.

He confesses that he was wrong about Oz and that he was a bigot when thinking about Willow and Oz's relationship and couldn't see past the ' humans good, demons bad ' idea, but Buffy reassures him he wasn't being a bigot but was just shocked when faced with an unconventional relationship ( due to the fact she had a similar reaction when finding out about Willow and Tara ).

Four good friends from western Michigan, high school seniors, Kevin Myers ( Thomas Ian Nicholas ), a confident student with a girlfriend named Vicky ( Tara Reid ); Chris " Oz " Ostreicher ( Chris Klein ), a member of the high school lacrosse team ; Jim Levenstein ( Jason Biggs ), an awkward and sexually naïve character whose dad ( Eugene Levy ) attempts to offer sexual advice including purchasing and giving him pornography ; and Paul Finch ( Eddie Kaye Thomas ), a cappuccino-drinking sophisticate, make a pact, at Kevin's initiation, to lose their virginity before their high school graduation after a dorky classmate, Chuck Sherman ( Chris Owen ), claims to have done so at a party hosted by Steve Stifler ( Seann William Scott ), an ignorant and obnoxious lacrosse player who happens to be a close friend to the main four boys.

Describing Morris as a teenager, Mark Singer wrote that he " read with a passion the forty-odd Oz books, watched a lot of television, and on a regular basis went with a doting but not quite right maiden aunt (" I guess you'd have to say that Aunt Roz was somewhat demented ") to Saturday matinées, where he saw such films as This Island Earth and Creature from the Black Lagoon — horror movies that, viewed again 30 years later, still seem scary to him.

* Daniel " Oz " Osbourne — Willow's boyfriend throughout Seasons Two to Four, Oz is a werewolf and the guitarist for local band Dingoes Ate My Baby.

The book was a popular success, selling just over 17, 000 copies — though this was somewhat lower than the total for the previous book, The Emerald City of Oz, and marked the start of a trend in declining sales for the Oz books that would not reverse until The Tin Woodman of Oz in 1918.

It is the last of the " Lazarus Long " cycle of stories, involving time travel, parallel dimensions, free love, voluntary incest, and a concept that Heinlein named pantheistic solipsism, or World as Myth — the theory that universes are created by the act of imagining them, so that somewhere ( for example ) the Land of Oz is real.

Professor Russel B. Nye of Michigan State University countered that " if the message of the Oz books — love, kindness, and unselfishness make the world a better place — seems of no value today ", then maybe the time is ripe for " reassess a good many other things besides the Detroit library's approved list of children's books ".

* Journey Back to Oz — Special Edition October 24, 2006

Zed finally understands the origin of the name Zardoz — Wizard of Oz — bringing him to a true awareness of Zardoz as a skillful manipulator rather than an actual deity.

* January — MGM announces that Judy Garland would be cast in the role of " Dorothy " in the upcoming Wizard of Oz motion picture.

* April 5 — Noel Langley completes the first script for The Wizard of Oz.

* May 7 — Lyricist Edgar Yipsel Harburg and composer, Harold Arlen, begin work on the musical score for The Wizard of Oz.

* October 13 — Filming starts on The Wizard of Oz.

* October 21 — Buddy Ebsen suffers from a near fatal allergic reaction to the aluminum dust used in his " Tinman " make-up on the set of The Wizard of Oz.

* December 23 — Margaret Hamilton is severely burned during a mishap on the set of The Wizard of Oz.

* L. Frank Baum — The Patchwork Girl of Oz

* L. Frank Baum — The Magic of Oz

* L. Frank Baum — Glinda of Oz

* Daniel ' Oz ' Osbourne — fictional character in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer television series

" In his 2004 essay " How to Cure a Fanatic " ( later the title essay of a 2006 collection ), Oz argues that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not a war of religion or cultures or traditions, but rather a real estate dispute — one that will be resolved not by greater understanding, but by painful compromise.

Other figures, more familiar to readers of previous books, include the Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow, as well as the four tribes of Oz — the Munchkins, the Quadlings, the Gillikins, and the Winkies.

One early reviewer of The Marvelous Land of Oz noted that some details in the book clearly appeared to be designed for stage production — in particular, " General Jinjur and her soldiers are only shapely chorus girls.

Seth Green joined the cast during the second season as Oz, a high school senior who becomes a werewolf, and Willow's primary romantic interest.

Willow's relationship with Oz continues until he becomes involved with another werewolf and leaves town to learn how to control the wolf within.

In early seasons, Willow's unrequited crush on Xander creates some storylines involving the relationships between Xander, Cordelia, and Oz.

Earlier in the fourth season Willow's boyfriend, Oz, left college in an attempt to grapple with the uncontrollable feral side of being a werewolf, leaving Willow devastated for several episodes.

The writers decided to replace Seth Green, who played Oz, Willow's lycanthropic boyfriend, after he announced that he would be leaving early in the fourth season.

* Seth Green, who left the series earlier in the season, made a brief appearance as Oz in Willow's dream.

Following Xander and Willow's kiss in " Lovers Walk ", Oz has called a time-out on his relationship with Willow and Cordelia is decidedly avoiding any contact with Xander.

Willow's respect and feelings for Oz grow.

Willow and Oz are walking back to Willow's dorm room discussing Buffy's odd behavior.

Xander and Oz get to Willow's room to discover her gone and her room in a shambles.

While Xander and Oz follow Willow's directions to create the necessary potion, Willow performs the spell at City Hall so Angel can lower Buffy through the skylight to grab the box.

* While working out Willow's instructions for the potion, Xander and Oz observe the cute stick figure drawings Willow has made of them, one showing Oz with a little guitar.

Oz goes to Willow's house to watch videos only to find her dressed up and playing Barry White music, intending to sleep with him.