I remember hearing a while back that dead bodies and stuff floated down the river but some of the reviewers had confirmed that the water did not affect the player. Maybe that was an older build, or maybe only certain areas push the player downstream, but I am excited about this. One of the articles I read today (so many I lost it) said they got pushed down a waterfall and died!

Here is an article that talks about it: http://kotaku.com/5850445/the-wonderful-distractions-sentient-glitches-of-skyrims-massive-world

I think it might be fun to know where one of these waterfalls are that kill someone from a fall, and lure an NPC to follow you near it, then turn around and shield bash him so he falls to his doom. But really I'm excited about all the little things in Skyrim I can waste hours trying things out on, and this is one of them. Throwing junk in the river to see how far it goes. I wonder if dead bodies will catch on trees that stick up out of the water? I wonder if I throw 10 in, will all 10 end up at the same destination? Do fish die from these falls? It's really not a big deal to me either way, but it's one of those things I will do when the time is right.

So excited about the water huh lol
Yeah the rapids are where your character gets his butt kicked
Ragdollin all over the place
And also enemies can knock you off as well
A journalist had come across the most tactical moose ever
He thought he had cornered the moose but instead the moose had actually conered him with his back to a waterfall whuch lead into rapids
The moose charged him and headbutted him off the cliff into the rapids
Totally got wooped and outsmarted by a moose

That's awesome, I read for about 6 hours tonight and still didn't see that one! I love the "main features" but it's so much fun to get lost in the subtle possibilities.

I am so excited about the water. You can catch fish, how cool is that ^_^ I'm so excited to find all these 'little things' and see how they work

Interesting what mechanism was used for achieving such effect?
Also I remember thats in Oblivion we can set water movement direction and speed but thats was just eye candy feature.

Lol only downside (if u can even call it that b/c it looks hilarious)
Is that there is no animation for catching fish
So it sorta looks like picking up a bunch of coins on a table from oblvion
(which just sounds hilarious)
I imagine fish quickly dissapearing from te river as i rapidly tap X

Yes! I will kill a bandit and put all my looted stuff in him. Then I'll set the corpse floating down the river and later get my loot from the corpse, that has floaded to the lake!