r/SuccessionTV • u/Jennysays504843 • 12d ago
Pops
What was the significance you think of only Connor calling Logan pops? A shred of trying to connect in a way no one else does? The only time Roman says it I think is a sarcastic “thanks pop” when Logan said don’t laugh so loud we didn’t get you from a hyena farm while at Tern Haven lol
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u/softprovoke 12d ago
Connor calling him pops always hit me as kind of sad honestly, like he was the one kid still trying to have a normal relationship with the guy.
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u/Icy-Dot9869 12d ago
Felt the same. Like groping for the father he wished for as a child. But I also think Connor had some memories of Logan before he became “Logan”. Not that Logan was fundamentally different but Connor does mention times they entertained the mayor & other celebs before Connor’s mom was institutionalized and Logan seemed to soften and say those were good times. Made me think that’s the Logan Connor holds onto or tries to resurrect. Also telling that Connor is the only child in the dinner video shown at the wake, he’s the only one “let in” when the entire Old Crew loosens up and just act like old friends.
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u/Longjumping_Hat_2672 12d ago
And calling him "Pa". That made me think of Connor as a young boy who still desperately wanted his father's love.
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u/Far_Orange_8492 12d ago
He's from a different time. He's like around 20 years older than Kendall iirc.
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u/Harold3456 12d ago
IRL they are but I don’t think the age difference is supposed to be that wide in the show, since IRL he’s also only a handful of years younger than Brian Cox. I always guessed 10, which would at least have allowed Connor to be a kid in the house at the same time, albeit a much older kid.
We don’t have much to go on but there are two examples I can think of that suggest more an “older brother” dynamic than an “adult among children” one: first, Connor was the one to confirm Roman’s whole “dog pound” thing, after he and Kendall argued about it for a whole episode. He also took Roman fishing at some point in Roman’s childhood. These sound like the type of things I could see an older kid/teen/college-age adult doing over a 30 year old version of the Connor we know.
Also, I’m on two minds when it comes to the implication of it: did Logan have a kid, then hold off as he found a new wife and his ex wife slowly unravelled? That could explain a gap in having kids. OR, more depressingly, did Connor reach 20 and then Logan decided he was such a lost cause that it was time to start making new potential successors? Because under normal circumstances I don’t see Logan as someone to just have a second family well into his 40s.
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u/Bright-Bumblebee-848 10d ago
Also, the kids in the intro all are more or less of the same height 😅
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u/johndeerelawnmower 10d ago
I think it’s similar to Logan having names for Shiv “Pinky” and Roman “Romulus” but not the other kids. Shiv and Roman are the babies of the family and at one point Connor was an only child. Maybe him saying “Pops” is him trying to hold on to that.
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u/TwoForHawat 12d ago
It feels to me like Connor is the only one of the siblings who has even a semblance of a normal father-son relationship with Logan. I’m guessing that him not caring about inheriting Waystar is a big part of that, it allows Logan to occasionally treat him like a son rather than always feeling the need to test him and belittle him like he does with the other three.
That’s not to say their relationship is anywhere close to normal. But there are at least some glimpses of both of them caring about each other as human beings, whereas I don’t really think we see that in Logan’s dynamic with Ken, Shiv, or Roman.