You're not the only one, River as new weapon annoys me so much. I think it's abouslty out of character, well, not abosuluty. But as you've noticed she needs justification to turn on the weapon, and she has no real reason to do that. She can defend herself, yes, but she's proably a lot like simon and would be loath to take violent action right away, as seen in the scene prior to River kicking ass with the reavers. She could've jumped into the action at anytime, but she only does after simon gets shot and she HAS too.
I think Pilot is an excellent way for her to go, tag along mind reader possible and to have in case of extreme or dire emergancies. She could proably also handle as engineers assistant, doctors assisntant, since book is gone she could replace hims as 'the wise one.'
Just everybody gets so excited about making her into buffy they don't stop to think that might not be a very River thing to do!
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Date: 2006-09-10 05:42 pm (UTC)I think Pilot is an excellent way for her to go, tag along mind reader possible and to have in case of extreme or dire emergancies. She could proably also handle as engineers assistant, doctors assisntant, since book is gone she could replace hims as 'the wise one.'
Just everybody gets so excited about making her into buffy they don't stop to think that might not be a very River thing to do!