Inara's Needle?

POSTED BY: SouthernSlayer
UPDATED: Monday, January 10, 2005 09:20
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PIZMOBEACH

Saturday, January 8, 2005 2:22 PM

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Originally posted by ReeQueen:

Since she is obviously the prettiest, sexiest, or may perceived as such by reavers, the chances that she'd be the first victim are good. Maybe she thought by poisoning them, killing them off with their violation of her body, she'd have a chance of saving the others.

Crazy idea off the one above - Maybe it's an antidote to her "youth and beauty drug?" It would reverse the effect making her less *attractive* to the Reavers. Not because it would make her as old as Nandi but because in reality she's really really old - more like 110... ish.
I don't believe she's terminal or dying from anything other than old age (another thing that complicates her relationship with Mal - she knows how old she really is). In Ariel she says about her checkup:
"It's Guild law. All Companions are required to undergo a physical exam once a year."
At the end of the ep Kaylee asks:

"Hey, 'Nara. How was your checkup?"

INARA
(dismissing it) "Same as last year."
Maybe she's dismissive because she's done it so many times and it's always been the same??

In Serenity she only contemplates using the antidote to underscore just how evil Reavers are - but in the end she'd never do that to her crewmates.

That guy, working electric, he never drank with us!

KIRINA

Monday, January 10, 2005 9:20 AM

Reading all of these theories, I'm just thinking back to Joss's (annoyingly uninformative) commentary on Objects in Space- he talks about how far into sci-fi he's willing to go when River's doing her thing saying she's Serenity, and that psychic is as far, incorporeal possession too far. So where do immortality/extended life/eternal youth theories fit into that spectrum, I wonder?
Ooooh! He said that whenever he's not telling a story about a teenage female superhero, he ends up telling a story about a teenage female superhero: so maybe it *is* some sort of immortality, because that's another buffyverse aspect that might've creeped in. But by the same argument, the immortality/etc theories are v unlikely, because of the buffyverse connotations. So I dunno. The look-on-her-face thing is a problem for the illness theories, because she *wouldn't* be thinking about a cure. She wouldn't be thinking about beauty, because she knows the Reavers wouldn't care what she looked like- they might just go for one of the others first, in which case she might have to watch. I also don't think she'd be thinking about getting high- I guess distancing yourself from your body wouldn't be a bad strategy against Reavers, but something about the drug-addict theory doesn't sit right with me; I just don't think it's in character. I could be wrong. I prefer the chasing-immortality or terminally ill theories, because to me it explains her fear of getting too close to people far better. But maybe we're just taking that line to Simon too seriously; it could be another red herring after all, and just a throwaway line.

Mal: You know, you ain't quite right.
River: It's a popular theory.

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