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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[deinonychus_1]

Connor the dino-geek was such fun, it's a shame they toned that down to some extent because it was one of his more endearing character traits in S1. I wonder how much use they will make of his techie skills in S3, or whether they were a plot device to make the whole thing with Leek work in S2. Maybe the techie skills will also fade into the background in S3 if they realise they need him to be able to do something different, although it will stretch credulity to breaking point to have yet another character skill shift.

More teacher/student monent between Cutter and Connor would be lovely, but as I said to Reggie, I expect it depends very much on how the team dynamics change without Stephen around in S3.

[sandyleepotts]

I seem to have missed a lot of your early work.

This is simply super!

Totally with you on this one. Must say I enjoyed seeing Connor change more in series two, I didn't really like him in series one - too geeky.

Series two brought out a sexier Connor, the hair changed, waistcoats appeared, and he was much more central to the role of Connor. I'm glad they kept the hats from series one, I think people identified with the hats, and they were so Connor.

[deinonychus_1]

Yes, I didn't really start to love Connor until series 2, as you say, he was just too much of a stereotype geek in series 1. In series 2 he got a slightly harder edge, and a new wardrobe which actually demonstrated the fact that he's a good looking bloke, rather than hiding him under about ten layers!

[reggietate]

It's interesting to read this again, having seen S3 - all our innocent speculation about the relationships in the show and who was going to interact with whom. Oh how little did we know! ;-O

[deinonychus_1]

lol, yes, we had no idea all the team upheavals that were on the way. It's rather nice to see that I wasn't far off the mark with my predictions about Connor and his dino-knowledge, though!

[knitekat]

Interesting to read your thoughts, it makes sense really as Connor was always going to be out-shone by Cutter when it came to dinos.

[deinonychus_1]

He was, and with Primeval being the kind of show that it is, the 'hero' always has to be right, and always has to be 'better' than the others at certain things, so series 1 Connor was really onto a loser from the start. It wasn't until series 2 that he really started contributing anything significant to the team with all the ADD and techie stuff.

[knitekat]

It is, Lester suffers from it in the first seasons too. It is what I like about fanfic, the others can be the hero for a change.