But in S1 those computer skills were clearly *software* skills. Being able to program a complicated database is a completely different skill to being able to engineer the moon rover thing or the Anomaly Detector. Nothing in S1 suggested he spent his spare time building computers or such - nothing specifically said he didn't, but it's a skill that there was no evidence of before S1. I could probably, at a push, figure out the database, but I couldn't build a moon rover :D
I don't mind it suddenly appearing in S2 because they are, to a certain extent, different characters/different people, to me it's no different than Claudia becoming Jenny. I will however be irritated if in S3 he reverts to more of a mini-Cutter, because he seemed to lose some of those skills in S2 and there's no time change to explain them coming back.
Unlike Munchkin I'm happy to accept his tech skills in S2 simply because he is a different person, although I can see why she has issues. I don't see the fact that he used a hairdryer in the moon rover as incongruous since he was, presumably, building the ADD at government expense and with government resources, whereas the rover was a personal project and he was no doubt making do with whatever he had to hand.
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Date: 2009-02-24 06:52 pm (UTC)I don't mind it suddenly appearing in S2 because they are, to a certain extent, different characters/different people, to me it's no different than Claudia becoming Jenny. I will however be irritated if in S3 he reverts to more of a mini-Cutter, because he seemed to lose some of those skills in S2 and there's no time change to explain them coming back.
Unlike Munchkin I'm happy to accept his tech skills in S2 simply because he is a different person, although I can see why she has issues. I don't see the fact that he used a hairdryer in the moon rover as incongruous since he was, presumably, building the ADD at government expense and with government resources, whereas the rover was a personal project and he was no doubt making do with whatever he had to hand.