Yeah, I wasn't around at all. I first started watching Buffyverse shows in the middle of 2005. I didn't know a lot of this stuff.
actually the moment the idea of him was announced, but I digress
It's stupid to judge something you haven't seen or don't know how will play out, but I admit that when I was first spoiled for AtS, I thought the idea of Connor was stupid. I thought it sounded very similar to what I was spoiled for about Dawn, which I also thought was stupid. It was how Connor came about and was introduced in the show, and then later the acting ability of VK that made me realize I'd been pretty stupid to judge.
which is interesting to think about in a post-"Origin" world
What do you mean?
It also makes me angry (still) because the end of April/beginning of May corresponded to the last five or so episodes of s4, which is when fan reaction towards Connor started shifting a bit. In the perserve way that fandom can be sometimes, it took Connor revealing that he'd known about Jasmine the whole time to get fans to start trusting him. The whole, Holtz-used-to-tie-me-to-a-tree-and-leave-me-there-to-either-die-or-escape thing seemed to garner some sympathy as well, as did the church scene in "Peace Out."
On the last rewatch, it seemed to me as though the writers were working harder to make the audience understand Connor during those eps, too. There were several other littler things than the Holtz-tied-me-to-trees thing that seemed to be trying to actively remind the audience where exactly Connor was coming from: his, "what's a houdini?" line comes to mind, little stuff like that.
You're lucky you did not know me during this time.
All I can say is I'm glad I know you now ;o)
whose lives almost intersected, and whose success that one year was dependent on the failure of the other,
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actually the moment the idea of him was announced, but I digress
It's stupid to judge something you haven't seen or don't know how will play out, but I admit that when I was first spoiled for AtS, I thought the idea of Connor was stupid. I thought it sounded very similar to what I was spoiled for about Dawn, which I also thought was stupid. It was how Connor came about and was introduced in the show, and then later the acting ability of VK that made me realize I'd been pretty stupid to judge.
which is interesting to think about in a post-"Origin" world
What do you mean?
It also makes me angry (still) because the end of April/beginning of May corresponded to the last five or so episodes of s4, which is when fan reaction towards Connor started shifting a bit. In the perserve way that fandom can be sometimes, it took Connor revealing that he'd known about Jasmine the whole time to get fans to start trusting him. The whole, Holtz-used-to-tie-me-to-a-tree-and-leave-me-there-to-either-die-or-escape thing seemed to garner some sympathy as well, as did the church scene in "Peace Out."
On the last rewatch, it seemed to me as though the writers were working harder to make the audience understand Connor during those eps, too. There were several other littler things than the Holtz-tied-me-to-trees thing that seemed to be trying to actively remind the audience where exactly Connor was coming from: his, "what's a houdini?" line comes to mind, little stuff like that.
You're lucky you did not know me during this time.
All I can say is I'm glad I know you now ;o)
whose lives almost intersected, and whose success that one year was dependent on the failure of the other,
I never thought about it that way.
The end.
Again, thanks.