River as a weapon ** SPOILERS**
POSTED BY: Chindi
UPDATED: Friday, December 23, 2005 23:43
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Here's the thing.
I beleive River was a weapon for the Alliance just because they wanted one. THey are being portrayed as evil in the show so why wouldn't they?? I don't think it was specifically for the reavers or for her to hold information. WHy woud they do that?
I mean, every government has a secret service right?? WHy wouldn't the Alliance have one? ANd why wouldn't the train sleeper agents (being evil and all?) Refer to the Alias episode 1.06 "Reckoning".
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spoilers again
in the movie, at the beginning, the doctor say "She'll be ideal for defense deployment".
For me, that's implict more things than be only a assassin or a weapon. I see more her than a commander, as we can see in Object in Space. Before be a great fighter, she's superious intelligent. It's more usefull for the Alliance to have a great commander, than a simply assassin.
More, her psychic range is very far, a planet in fact, she can feel all the dead in Miranda. That could very usefull on a battle, for know the plan and the movement of the opposite force.
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I doubt that the Alliance would have used her as a commander, partly because she is crazy, and partly because making her a commander would give her way too much power. As for her psychic range, we don't know the population density of Miranda. The planet only had 30 million people so everyone could have lived within a 50 or 100 mile radius from where the crew was and we don't know if River actually "felt" all the dead people on Mirand since she had the memories of people who knew that everyone on Miranda was dead.
"I swallowed a bug." -River Tam
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Originally posted by Giantevilhead:
I doubt that the Alliance would have used her as a commander, partly because she is crazy, and partly because making her a commander would give her way too much power. As for her psychic range, we don't know the population density of Miranda. The planet only had 30 million people so everyone could have lived within a 50 or 100 mile radius from where the crew was and we don't know if River actually "felt" all the dead people on Mirand since she had the memories of people who knew that everyone on Miranda was dead.
"I swallowed a bug." -River Tam
make crazy people wasnt the purpose of the academie, the operator say "River was your greatest success. A prodigy". And, cause of her evasion, they havent time to finish her what they plan for her.
for psychic range, i rejoin your point, but read mind in a 50 or 100 mile radius is suffisant in a battle.
and i steal this theory on a book, i read 10, maybe more, years ago. they train young girls and boys with high capacity for be the future commanders of their army. I dont spoil to much about this book, because i read a movie project who seems to come from the book.
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They cut out parts of River's brain. It's a trade off, cutting out parts of her brain makes her psychic but it also makes her crazy. Plus she's an experiment, you don't always get what you want from experiments. Maybe the only reason why she's called a success is because all the other experiments were terrible failures. Plus River being a prodigy has nothing to do with the experiment, she was born a super genius. We can't even be sure if she really does have a range of 50 to 100 miles. She didn't get paralyzed by the Reaver's rage until the Reavers were really close. Plus 50 to 100 mile radius would only be useful in small battles which would be rare since they can just bomb everything from space.
"I swallowed a bug." -River Tam
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Originally posted by Giantevilhead:
They cut out parts of River's brain. It's a trade off, cutting out parts of her brain makes her psychic but it also makes her crazy. Plus she's an experiment, you don't always get what you want from experiments. Maybe the only reason why she's called a success is because all the other experiments were terrible failures. Plus River being a prodigy has nothing to do with the experiment, she was born a super genius. We can't even be sure if she really does have a range of 50 to 100 miles. She didn't get paralyzed by the Reaver's rage until the Reavers were really close. Plus 50 to 100 mile radius would only be useful in small battles which would be rare since they can just bomb everything from space.
"I swallowed a bug." -River Tam
The traitement of Simon have effects on River, and he's not as well equiped than a ultra secret science center. And it's clear, on the BDM, as a weapon and as a psychic, she's a sucess.
The maybe it's a maybe like all i write here. radius is a maybe.
all the chosen candidate for the academy must be super genious, it's better for psychic research.
and for the battle without bombing, ther are ku-Dhang and the most know, Serenity Valley
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Simon's treatments had an effect but that doesn't mean they can cure her insanity.
River's success as a weapon has a lot to do with her innate abilities. It was explained in the first episode, everything River did, she did better than anyone else and it wasn't just intellectual activities but also physical ones.
Being a super genius may have been the requirement of the program but River is the super genius of super geniuses, she's smarter than all the other super geniuses and she already displayed some psychic abilities before the experiments.
"I swallowed a bug." -River Tam
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