The nature of the character and her role in the franchise has garnered both praise and criticism from various reviewers. Glau was also runner up for Best Actress/Movie in the SyFy Genre Awards for 2006. Glau later won a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress, again for her role as River in Serenity in May 2006. In 2005, Summer Glau won the SFX Magazine award for Best Actress for her role as River in Serenity. River is seen mostly barefoot throughout the series. She references the "G-23 Paxilon Hydrochlorate", which would later be a plot point in the film Serenity, and mentions the Academy's first subject "dying on the table." The first session clip indicates she has strong "intuitive" abilities and can easily understand complex subjects. Tam sessions depict her descent into insanity and portray hints of her psychic abilities.
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In his quest to locate and free River, Simon enlisted the aid of anti-governmental groups, exhausting his personal fortune and sacrificing a promising medical career. Simon decoded the message and set out to rescue his then sixteen-year-old sister, despite his parents' insistence that he was being paranoid. According to Simon, the Alliance attempted to isolate River from her family, though she managed to send a call for help by putting a coded message in a letter to her brother. While in the hands of Alliance doctors and scientists, River was secretly experimented on, including surgery that damaged her amygdala. While her parents and Simon believed the Academy was a private school meant to nurture the gifts of talented children, it was in fact a cover for a government experiment in creating assassins. It was at this point that she was sent to a government learning facility known as "The Academy". By the time she was fourteen years old, she had grown "bored" with her studies and enrolled in a graduate program for physics. She is described as having a strong thirst for knowledge and a love for and intuitive grasp of dance. She was graceful and intellectually gifted. Depiction ĭuring River's early childhood, she grew up alongside her brother, Simon, part of the wealthy Tam family on the "core" planet of Osiris. In many of the hand-to-hand combat scenes featuring the character, particularly those in Serenity, Glau's own experience in ballet dancing was incorporated into her fight choreography. Glau's inexperience assisted her in playing the character: she likened River's emotional withdrawal to her own initial apprehension on the set. Joss Whedon selected Summer Glau for the role after having previously worked with her on another of his shows, Angel.
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