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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[joereaves]

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.

[missyvortexdv]

It may be moot considering S2 changes, but personally I didn't have a problem thinking he could make for example the moon rover.

They *are* different skills, but based on the software geeks I know - who do not have any more experience than repairing or putting together pc's on occasion - they're quite happy to go with the school based electronic they did and figure out how with the help of the internet guides.

As for the ADD, we never have any evidence he made the hardware, do we? I can't believe he orchestrated it all himself - that's got to take a team, even if he was leader of it (which seems unlikely to my mind unless it's a title for sake of ego).

[deinonychus_1]

different skills, yes, but in a related area. I have to admit I'm not techie in the slightest, so I dont know just *how* different, but surely if he started with software as a precocious 14 year old with the database, then it isn't much of a stretch to say he branched out into interests in hardware and engineering at a later stage when he was a little older.