anyone with Gwen's supposed empathy and a possible psychic quality would care more about what they do to others.
This is (partly) why I don't think Gwen is empathic. But I think that even empathic and pyschic people can screw up.
Also, I'm getting confused, are we talking telepathy or being psychic. Telepathy in my mind is being able to read other minds, psychic is being able to predict events and see what is going to come in the furture.
Who things, I agree, and I was talking about Gwen possibly being psychic (not telepathic). Both involve extraordinary mind powers and I was making an extrapolation: if one person in this universe can have one sort of extraordinary mind powers, then another person might have another kind. The Doctor can also see the future, though obviously that isn't an absolute skill, because there are ultimately infinite futures.
I'd say that was more to do with Gwen's empathy and her polic training.
You believe she's an empath, then?
Just as Owen was taught to study people in his medical career, that made him a good candidate to study the Weevils to begin with.
I think everyone at Torchwood has studied Weevils, one way or another. They make an interesting case study.
Yes, Gwen's ability to hear Eugene (insofar as she could) might well have been the result of his efforts, not hers, but it does imply a certain passive ability on her part - that she was receptive. (Though it might have been fun if it had been Jack instead of Gwen!)
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Date: 2007-04-09 04:34 pm (UTC)This is (partly) why I don't think Gwen is empathic. But I think that even empathic and pyschic people can screw up.
Also, I'm getting confused, are we talking telepathy or being psychic. Telepathy in my mind is being able to read other minds, psychic is being able to predict events and see what is going to come in the furture.
Who things, I agree, and I was talking about Gwen possibly being psychic (not telepathic). Both involve extraordinary mind powers and I was making an extrapolation: if one person in this universe can have one sort of extraordinary mind powers, then another person might have another kind. The Doctor can also see the future, though obviously that isn't an absolute skill, because there are ultimately infinite futures.
I'd say that was more to do with Gwen's empathy and her polic training.
You believe she's an empath, then?
Just as Owen was taught to study people in his medical career, that made him a good candidate to study the Weevils to begin with.
I think everyone at Torchwood has studied Weevils, one way or another. They make an interesting case study.
Yes, Gwen's ability to hear Eugene (insofar as she could) might well have been the result of his efforts, not hers, but it does imply a certain passive ability on her part - that she was receptive. (Though it might have been fun if it had been Jack instead of Gwen!)