Inara's true age
POSTED BY: PirateCat
UPDATED: Monday, January 1, 2007 21:41
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Ok in Out of Gas ep something has bothered me from the get go. Inara supports unification said during flasback. Ok we have a 5 year galactic civil war. 6 years later we see the crew of Serenity first ep. That's 11 years. Unification day 6 years exactly in the Train Job. Inara tells book she has been with the crew 8 months. In Bushwacked she tells the Fed she's been almost a year 2 months gone by give or take. OK if we go by Mal's, Zoe's, and Jayne's age by realife that would make sense. Kaylee's, Simon, and River's from flashbacks all kids. Book ok too. Inara would have to be 10 years old or no older than 15 if we went Morena's age of show and time begining or end of the unification war. To say she supports unification strikes me of a women in her 30s not early 20s. Just has always bug me what was that serum in the needle in Serenity ep.
"Battle of Serenity, Mal. Besides Zoe here, how many-" "I'm talkin at you! How many men in your platoon came out of their alive".
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I read somewhere she's 27.
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Perhaps you could also consider Rebecca Gayheart's age (which was 31)?
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I'm with the 27 crowd.
That would make her 16 for the start of the war and 21 for its end.
"Supported" doesn't have to mean active support of the Unification war. She could have simply been in favor of it, politically and philosophically.
27 seems like a fitting age. Young enough to be at the prime of her career without the immediate threat of fading beauty, old enough to have some life experience and to have cultivated her career to the point where she is now.
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I agree that something doesn't quite add up with Inara's timeline.
In Heart of Gold, Nandi tells Mal how Inara was the "best" companion in the house, and how anyone going in there would have chosen her...now Nandi, at least to me, clearly seems to be 5-10 years older than Inara, and even mentions how Inara "hasn't changed".
Other Inara question.. When she flys off in her shuttle does she typically provide companion services to her customers in the shuttle or in their homes....why would rich guys want to do it in the shuttle, when they could have her in their own bed? ...after all, being with a Registerd Companion is not looked down upon in any way in this 'verse...it's actually a status symbol. I always believed that Inara was just waiting & dying for Mal to just grab her, plant a big one on her, and sweep her off her feet.....but then we'd maybe never have all the incredible emotional interplay between the two that is there in every single episode.
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Originally posted by ShinyEd:
I agree that something doesn't quite add up with Inara's timeline.
In Heart of Gold, Nandi tells Mal how Inara was the "best" companion in the house, and how anyone going in there would have chosen her...now Nandi, at least to me, clearly seems to be 5-10 years older than Inara, and even mentions how Inara "hasn't changed".
I wouldn't say that Nandi is that much older than Inara. 4 to 5 years, tops, and certainly more marked by a life of deprivation that she has chosen, compared to the splendor Inara enjoys even on the Lovable Rustbucket Serenity.
And hey, "you haven't changed" seems like a nice but insiginificant compliment to make to a woman over her mid-20's who was a glorious rising star, beautiful, powerful and respected when they last met.
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Hey Agent,
You make good points.....maybe we should all just keep watching the shows again & again, and just accept them for the true gems they are...no real need to delve into the minutia...just enjoy!
Happy Holidays!
Christina Hendricks...Tzu fu nee, bao bei!
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Originally posted by ShinyEd:
Hey Agent,
You make good points.....maybe we should all just keep watching the shows again & again, and just accept them for the true gems they are...no real need to delve into the minutia...just enjoy!
Happy Holidays!
Christina Hendricks...Tzu fu nee, bao bei!
I'm all for the rewatching and rewatching! :D
But delving into the minutiae is fun, too... *G* The cool thing abou the show is that it doesnt crumble under close inspection. It's.. fully inherently logical! Well, almost, hehehehe.
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I'm not sure if she mentioned it anywhere, but I got the impression that she was in companion training during the war, and that she was in the 14-16 year old range at the time.
I also got the feeling that she was simply being argumentative with Mal by stating she supported Unification, and that she actually harbored browncoat/independence sympathies. (backed up with her refusal to break ties with her "independant" friend in Heart of Gold).
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Originally posted by Bagheera:
I also got the feeling that she was simply being argumentative with Mal by stating she supported Unification, and that she actually harbored browncoat/independence sympathies. (backed up with her refusal to break ties with her "independant" friend in Heart of Gold).
I wouldn't go so far as to say she harbored sympathies. For all we know, Inara's apathy and/or distrust of the Alliance is either recent or not too unusual within the actual Alliance population. Simon's father seemed to be quite nervous about the government and his "permanent record", for one. But this is six years after the war ended, and she might have held different opinions as an impressionable younger woman.
Not to mention, Inara may not have truly shunned Nandi, but she hasn't contacted her in a long time, either. Not to mention, the Companion Guild is not the Alliance and Nandi being an "independent" isn't the reason she was shunned, but rather the pretty vicious circumstances of her "resignation". She essentially threw a tantrum and destroyed Guild property.
Shunning would seem a bit harsh, but there's some motivation.
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