Thoughts about the character changes from S1 to S2 with reference to Connor's techie skills

[deinonychus_1]

Recently I've been having some quite intersting discussions with Munchkinofdoom re the change between S1 and S2 with Connor, and the sudden appearance of his techie computer and engineering skills. Leaving aside how much you take canon at face value for the use of these skills (which myself and Munchkin do entirely disagree about), I've been

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[lsellersfic]

I think you are spot on about all of this

[deinonychus_1]

I really do wish they would sort out what they were doing with Abby. She's a great character, and in S1 they did seem to be setting her up with the animal skills, which is fair enough - they're dealing with real animals, they'd want an animal expert around. Then in S2 they just utterly failed to use those skills at all, so Abby just ended up being relegated to, as you say, a second rank combat character. I don't mind her being a combat type, but she obviously has a brain as well, so I'd like to see her using it a bit in her area of expertise. Again, as you point out, they need to have less emphasis on dangerous creatures for her to have the opportunity to do 'her thing

[reggietate]

As I mentioned to someone else, I don't think that the S2 characters really are 'different' to the S1 versions. True, there is a slightly different emphasis in skill areas, and cosmetic changes such as clothes and hair, but I still believe that for the most part they are the same characters with more or less the same background experiences as we saw them having in S1.

I believe it's been stated by AH that they are the same people with most of the same experiences, just slightly different (obviously, they cannot be one-hundred percent the same, since none of them knew Claudia, etc). But they're not meant to be substantially altered from the characters in S1 that we know and love.

[deinonychus_1]

cool, thanks for mentioning that, I'd not heard that the actual writers had said that. It's pretty much how I've always read the change, but unless they *show* that explicitly onscreen, then there's always going to be arguments about how how much was different in the S2 timeline prior to Cutter coming back from the Permian.

[lsellersfic]

Catching up after two very hectic days.

TBH, even with dangerous critters Abby would be useful - she should have a feel for what might attract them, scare them so on and so forth and should have some ability to tell whether an animal is acting angry, cautious or distressed. We saw a bit of that with the Mammoth but if they chose to emphasize it it could be a real boost to the team.