Inara ponderings.
POSTED BY: dug
UPDATED: Sunday, January 18, 2004 00:05
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Just a couple of points:
1) While she is only required to get a check up once a year, don't forget that they are given immunzation packets. My guess for this is that its assumed that all compainons are using these and hence only need a check up once a year (in case something goes wrong), or maybe that they only need a check up by a certain doctor once a year and when ever anything seems wrong they are just suppose to go to a doctor close to where they are based. Also remember that women only need to see a gynocologist once a year so maybe its something like that.
2) My guess behind her leaving was that something happened with a high ranking person (maybe she was discarded for someone else from the governer?) but I do believe she is running from something.
3) I happen to agree with a lot of other people, I think that the vial is probably some sort of enhancement drug.
This isn't to say that I totally disreagard the sickness issue, esp because it has been used by Joss before. Its just that the way I read the information given that idea is lacking some support (again, the way I READ IT, I know I don't always show the same view point as me).
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While I endorse the 'super-drug' theory, I'm willing to entertain the possibility that it is not that, but rather a death-simulating drug, like Mal says in Serenity "If we run, they gotta chase us, it's their way".
However, maybe it's a poison of sorts, only it goes to her skin and tissues, so that anybody who... takes a bite out of her... dies from it.
Kind of a twisted revenge poison. You live long enough to see those who are eating you die first.
Anybody remember the show "The Invisible Man", with Vincent Ventresca? On the second episode, The Catevari, a man has been injected with increasingly lethal doses neurotoxins for years, so while he himself is immune to them, anyone he scratches or spits on dies within minutes. This is what made me think of the Lethal-To-Your-Attackers-Poison theory, maybe Inara is immune to the syringe, but if she even scratched (and punctured the skin) an attacker, he/she would die. It fits in that it is not a suicide kit, but it would work amazingly against Reavers.
Whadda y'all think?
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My wife has this thing where if we watch a movie or tv show that just misses, she'll say, "That needed another rewrite."
She noted the other day she has never said that about Joss Whedon's work.
LOL! That sounds JUST like my husband. It's always, "I would have included this-and-such" or something. Then there is his Ulitmate Insult to a piece of writing: "That NEVER would have made it through the writer's group." He's been meeting with a group of authors for critiques here in the Ann Arbor/Detroit area for about ten years.
Unfortunately, he HAS said that about some of Joss' stuff He said it a lot during the first season of Angel. We kept watching though, because we knew it was just trying to find its standing. Ironically, it's now doing that again.
Anyway, interesting theories about Inara. I would like to think that it's not an addiction stroy, though to me, that is the one that jumped into my mind first. Joss doesn't exactly have even a half-decent record with the addiction motiff.
--Kala
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Originally posted by CB:
However, maybe it's a poison of sorts, only it goes to her skin and tissues, so that anybody who... takes a bite out of her... dies from it.
Kind of a twisted revenge poison. You live long enough to see those who are eating you die first.
You're a very "up" person, aren't you?
While fantastic in concept and novelty, I'm not convinced by your ideas. If it is a poison for the reavers, why not a skin creme? If Inara's been building up resistance to a specific poison, it would not be necessary to inject herself now (the focus would be on her flesh, not the syringe). And I'm not sure Inara is into "twisted revenge".
PS, in her line of work, I'm sure pumping herself full of toxins is not the greatest of ideas.
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