Big Damn Inara Theory

POSTED BY: raptored
UPDATED: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 23:35
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POEANDFAITH

Thursday, April 13, 2006 1:52 PM

A lot of posts, so if someone said this before my apologies.

I was under the impression that it was a powerful chemical bomb, one strong enough to tear the Firefly into shards...
In order to save herself should Serenity be overrun, she'd plant it and fly her shuttle away. If they were about to reach her, it's a good chance the rest of the crew is dead or worse, and the explosion of Serenity would take out the Reaver ship grappled next to it.

Sort of a darker side to her, and why she looked at it so. Knowing the danger of running the black, she might have brought it for her own safety...but now isn't sure if she has the heart to use it.

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GIDEONSTARGRAVE

Friday, April 14, 2006 2:40 AM

This is probably going to sound really twee, but I keep coming back to the "Objects in space" reference. "It's just an object, it doesnt mean what you think.."

Could it all just have been a massive red-herring that would have distracted us from something else that would pay off a good two or three seasons down the line? Got to admit, we're all fixating on it as a key to the Inara Mystery, I wonder if that's a little obvious?

SLAYERCHICK

Tuesday, October 10, 2006 11:46 PM

So its official! Morena Baccarin reveals what the syringe is!

And a couple of folks on here got it right!

According to Inara herself, the syringe contains a 'medicine' that would kill Reavers if she was to be raped to death.

http://fireflytalk.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=133486">

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Morena Baccarin and Nathan Fillion, when asked about the Mal and Inara dynamic:

Morena: Who knows where this relationship is going.
Nathan: If I had my druthers, if we ever hook up I hope it’s on my death bed.
Morena: You don’t want to kiss me, do you?
Nathan: I do. But not for the sake of the show.
Morena: Good answer.
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*sigh* even adorable off screen...

DANNIISUPERNOVA

Wednesday, October 11, 2006 12:12 AM

Well, I think that (since they are based on geisha) she might be like a certain geisha I read about who was in line with the samurai and acted not only as a spy but as an assassin for them. I dunno. I personally thought the vial was something to make her super strong or (like in one of my fix) invincible for a while until the drug wore off. *shrugs*

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DONCOAT

Wednesday, October 11, 2006 10:25 PM

Okay, for the moment let's assume that the Tim Minear version (as confirmed by Morena) is accurate, or at least that it was the original intent of the "black vial", which might have been changed -- but never mind that.

Let's also assume that the end of the Black Vial plot is also true -- that Inara would take the drug, get gang-raped (destroying the Reavers in the process), but survive.

What then?

Perhaps the drug wears off, Inara recovers, and things progress from there. But... what if the drug's effects are permanent and irreversible?

Now we have a Companion who can no longer have sex... with anyone... for any reason... ever again (unless she wants them dead, that is). What would happen to Mal/Inara if she were no longer a whore, but Mal couldn't have her either?

Just food for thought...

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I'm pointin' right at it!

MARVLGRL

Friday, October 13, 2006 4:16 PM

This is all so "Ninja Scroll" to me. A woman who is so poisoness that she can't have sex with anyone because they'll die.

And don't Reavers like to kill and then rape the bodies? How could she not die?

SLAYERCHICK

Tuesday, October 17, 2006 3:39 AM

No I believe that Morena specified that Inara would be raped to DEATH, as many of the characters in the Verse have mentioned. A killer sex-drug would be a safe guard to make sure that Inara took the Reavers down with her as she died.

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Morena Baccarin and Nathan Fillion, when asked about the Mal and Inara dynamic:

Morena: Who knows where this relationship is going.
Nathan: If I had my druthers, if we ever hook up I hope it’s on my death bed.
Morena: You don’t want to kiss me, do you?
Nathan: I do. But not for the sake of the show.
Morena: Good answer.
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*sigh* even adorable off screen...

DONCOAT

Tuesday, October 17, 2006 11:53 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by slayerchick:
No I believe that Morena specified that Inara would be raped to DEATH, as many of the characters in the Verse have mentioned. A killer sex-drug would be a safe guard to make sure that Inara took the Reavers down with her as she died.

I don't recall that from the Morena interview. I know for sure that Tim's description of the scene had Inara surviving the Reaver attack (though terribly injured), and being rescued by the crew.

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I'm pointin' right at it!

SLAYERCHICK

Tuesday, October 17, 2006 11:35 PM

Well, what I meant was that Morena suggested that one would expect that being captured by reavers would mean being raped to death. lol hope that makes me more clear :P

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Morena Baccarin and Nathan Fillion, when asked about the Mal and Inara dynamic:

Morena: Who knows where this relationship is going.
Nathan: If I had my druthers, if we ever hook up I hope it’s on my death bed.
Morena: You don’t want to kiss me, do you?
Nathan: I do. But not for the sake of the show.
Morena: Good answer.
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*sigh* even adorable off screen...

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