Season 4 opinions?
POSTED BY: RhymePhile
UPDATED: Saturday, June 25, 2005 17:25
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Originally posted by Grounded:
His annoyingness (!) doesn't really bother me - it's the fact that his character is totally changed between the end of S3 and the start of S4 without enough justification. Go rewatch Brave New World - S4 would have been brilliant if they'd stuck to the character's roots.
I'm just spitballing here, but don't you think that the way season 3 ended would have a pretty profound impact on Connor and his behavior. Connor was led to believe that Angel had killed the man that raised him. He sought revenge just like he was raised to do, and committed a vicious act. All summer he had been consumed by his efforts to keep Fred and Gunn from finding out what he had done to Angel.
I assume you were talking about A New World from S3, the ep where Connor came back to this dimension. If so, are you saying they should have kept Connor more as a feral warrior? Do you think they tried to domesticate him too much?
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I'm saying that they played with his character too much without actually thinking about his background. The most profound influence on him would be the fact that Holtz raised him, and is presumably the only human he's ever known until he gets back in BNW. I would have expected Holtz to have raised Connor in the same way he raised his own children--probably with great emphasis on the Bible. I think it would have made Connor far more interesting if they'd played off the desire for vengeance by giving him a conscience rooted in religion. Instead, within about 4 eps after BNW, they turned into the typical horny teenager who hates his father. What a waste.
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Originally posted by Grounded:
I'm saying that they played with his character too much without actually thinking about his background. The most profound influence on him would be the fact that Holtz raised him, and is presumably the only human he's ever known until he gets back in BNW. I would have expected Holtz to have raised Connor in the same way he raised his own children--probably with great emphasis on the Bible. I think it would have made Connor far more interesting if they'd played off the desire for vengeance by giving him a conscience rooted in religion. Instead, within about 4 eps after BNW, they turned into the typical horny teenager who hates his father. What a waste.
I hear what you are saying. And though Connor was not spouting bible thumping rhetoric, he did kind of enact the eye for an eye philosophy of revenge by sinking Angel believing he had killed Holtz. Having said that, I think the path the writers chose for Connor was not an unrealistic one. After all he was a teenage boy whose hormones were practically bouncing off the walls. All of a sudden he was confronted with women being around, which I assume he had only heard about. We have our formative years to learn and experiment and come to terms with our sexuality. With Connor it was thrust upon him all at once. If I was in Connor's place, I would probably have been crazy about Cordelia too.
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