There's Something About River

POSTED BY: Steamer
UPDATED: Monday, February 11, 2008 09:05
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JEWELSTAITEFAN

Monday, February 11, 2008 8:50 AM

She was psychic before the Institute tested her. They sought to expand her capabilities in this field.

ASARIAN

Monday, February 11, 2008 9:05 AM

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Originally posted by Rcat:

I had always thought that she was just highly observant and intuitive before the "alterations" done to her but, considering the points you made, it makes sense that the program that the school had was to discover those w/ pre-existing psychic abilities (or those who were borderline pschic) and then fine tune them to fit their needs.

It's the popular theory. :) And the best one, I think. Even 500 years in the future, I say they can't make people psychic, from scratch -- Wash's whole "Yeah, but psychic? That sounds like science fiction!" to wit. Stripping her amygdala, not allowing her to not feel, makes it harder for her to... not feel. :) No, seriously, I reckon one of the first steps in fine-tuning psychic abilities is to take away any mechanism that might filter out/supress such signals. And then you add some drugs to enhance other areas, etc. But River (see River Tam Sessions) I'm fair certain was already psychic before she went to the Academy.

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"Mei-mei, everything I have is right here." -- Simon Tam

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