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Originally posted by CaptainCerentz:
I have seen several posts regarding heavy speculation on River and most of it is very cool and quite imaginative. From seeing the few shows that I have and from some of what I read I have come upon what I think is a fairly simple explanation for River's 'powers'. Read below and tell me what you think!

River is INCREDIBLY inteligent - Taken from what Simon has told about River on more then one occasion.

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River has some psychic ability. This manifests itself in many different ways.

1. She appears to be able to 'know' when an intensely emotional event is about to happen and sometimes knows when some crew members are about to touch/activate something that was last touched by someone in a highly emotional state. Like the ship's log scene in 'Bushwacked'.

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2. She can also 'channel' someone's personality and take one more then just one aspect of that person's personality. She does this with Badger and I presume also during the time she shoots 3 Alliance soldiers and proclaims that she is 'unstoppable' or something. (I believe that she channeled one of those highly skilled soldiers and 'used' his abilities to shoot him and his compatriots.) This power seems to manifest itself when she is in some kind of danger, as nobody really knows what Badger would have done before she started talking to him using his accent, sentence structure and level of "I'm a peon, but I think I am better then you. So, I will talk down to you like the dirt I am, but think you are..." way that Badger often treats people.

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3. Sometimes she is greatly precognizant and able to 'see' events that will happen in the near, meaning close to a few weeks or months, future.

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Beyond that, there is some cool things to speculate about...

Perhaps the 'removing of her medula' was designed to mold her into an emotionless 'machine' that could be an effective Assasin or spy, as being able to channel people's skills and likely knowledge can be extremely effective in such situations.

It's also possible that those surgeries were designed to push her mind even farther then she was naturally, possibly allowing her to channel/read the mind of anyone anywhere within and outside of Alliance control.

All in all, she is a very interesting character.

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Originally posted by zoid:

Dogs' noses are so sensitive they can smell one part of urine in a million parts of water. Butterflies see in ultraviolet, invisible to human sight, to locate mating partners. Bats use echo-location to navigate in the total darkness of caves. Dolphins use sonar to locate and differentiate between food and predators in murky coastal waters. Many animals are sensitive to EM radiation and can tell when earthquakes and tornados are about to occur, although humans appear to be clueless.

Does this make these organisms psychic?


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"River didn't fix faith. Faith fixed River."

- Senator Richard 'Book' Wilkins, Independent Congress
from A Child Shall Lead Them

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Originally posted by zoid:
Anybody ever read any A.C. Doyle?

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Also. . .

They didn't remove River's MEDULLA. . .turning her into an emotionless robot. . .

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