The Savant Crew

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AGENTROUKA

Tuesday, May 5, 2009 11:51 AM

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Originally posted by jewelstaitefan:
Regarding Book, I don't see his payment of fare as reason he's staying aboard.
Once the events of the Pilot come to pass, he's "in" because he knows the Tam secret, which is now a Serenity secret, and our BDH shouldn't distance them from him unduly. They even let him take off for a week during Ariel. He does show some usefulness in War Stories, but there is an underlying question before that if he's merely a religiosity spreader, or maybe there's more to him. Why else would Jayne accept him? Even during Safe, he does not seem to let his code get in the way of some criminal activity. His reaction, or lack of, to Dobson's killing tells a lot to Mal & Zoe.

I'm not saying that Book isn't part of their family, or that he doesn't have advantages to offer, but he is not hired crew in theway everyone else beside Inara is (or River per Simon). I have no doubt that he keeps paying fare, which is the official advantage he offers Mal, aside from the many surprising and unexplained ones.

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Wednesday, May 15, 2019 11:47 PM

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Originally posted by jewelstaitefan:
I think a reply of mine is missing.
I intended and agree that savants are not perfect - they are only gifted in a focused application. Perfection is not the point here - just that they are gifted. In the Pilot, River is effecti8vely the primary catalyst for the problems/tensions which the show is based on - the 8 months from Pilot to BDM. And River is the Mother-of-all-Savants - and Serenity is likely the safest place in the verse for her, although Simon didn't know this when he tried to sneak her as cargo for a short trip - just that they didn't ask too many questions.

Simon would not have been in any "high school" as we conjure. By the end of his teens he already completed college, med school, internship, and was a trauma surgeon. If high schoool is for learning, he aced it. If high school is for making the dumb feel like they have some contibution to make in their community, Simon probably didn't have those courses, activities, or experiences.

Another thing. Other than BDM where the teacher is narrator at the beginning, and Book provides foreshadowing - even of his own death, the only foreshadowing and narration we get are from River.
So, does River ever speak an untruth? Other than the Book's hair thing in Jaynestown, I can't recall any.
Sort of fetching that, since she is providing the most accurate and valuable information in the show, the crew ignores her input.

Upon reviewing this thread, I note that Joss had said the entire show was about River. So this was a particularly poignant point of her being Mother-of-all-Savants, without knowing the intention Joss had.

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