Inara's true age

POSTED BY: PirateCat
UPDATED: Monday, January 1, 2007 21:41
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MAVOURNEEN

Friday, December 22, 2006 2:50 PM

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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!

There are Browncoats who watch the episodes like you say, and then there are the minutia delvers like agentrouka.
Most of us oldtimers *coughhackwheeze as I drag my walker around* (HA!) have seen the episodes so many times we delve. We delve a lot.

For example, if you look REALLY closely at the scene in The Message where Kaylee is in the hammock listening to Tracey's recording, behind her is a Han Solo frozen in carbonite toy. It's proppped up over her shoulder.

SHINYED

Friday, December 22, 2006 3:00 PM

I firmly believe that Browncoats who delve represent no real threat to society at large; and they should not be mocked or shunned. Delving IS fun, but there are slippery slopes out there in this cruel 'verse.

Thanks for mentioning Kaylee's Han Solo toy......I've never noticed that!....Good delving!

Christina Hendricks...Tzu fu nee, bao bei!

PURPLEBELLY

Friday, December 22, 2006 3:04 PM

So Kaylee is 5,000 years old, and it's her that's taking the shots -- or is she just out of cryo -- or is the Solo figure a talisman of the group that broke out frozen-River and routed the Doc to Serenity so that Kaylee could be covert support?

CAUSAL

Friday, December 22, 2006 4:15 PM

Or--maybe that's no toy! Perhaps it really is Han Solo. And the 'verse is an alternate universe where the rescue of Han from Jabba's palace failed. And since Star Wars was "a long time ago", the human race has gotten much, much taller, so that's really Han frozen in carbonite!

(To self) God, what a geek.

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CAUSAL

Friday, December 22, 2006 4:20 PM

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Originally posted by PirateCat:
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.

I fail to see why her age has anything to do with the question of whether or not she would have supported unification. Perhaps she was very politically aware for a 15-year old. Or maybe her parents were. Maybe her family stood to gain from unification, so they talked it up. The mere fact that she would have been 15 when the question of unification was a live issue doesn't establish an inconsistency. I (a 30-year-old) go to school with 18-year-olds who would have been about 15 when we invaded Iraq, and they have definite (though not terribly well-informed) opinions on the issue. And I was in high school during Gulf War I, and I remember many of my fellow students protesting that. I also remember the 1992 presidential election. Many of my high school friends had strong feelings one way or the other. So the mere fact that Inara was 15 doesn't mean that she couldn't have been well informed enough to have a position on the issue. In fact, given Inara's intelligence that would seem quite reasonable.

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CAUSAL

Friday, December 22, 2006 4:24 PM

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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).

Her refusal to break ties with Nandi seems to have more to do with her friendship than with an "independence sympathies." Other than that, can you think of anything that would lead you to believe that she had such sympathies? I certainly can't.

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ECGORDON

Friday, December 22, 2006 4:29 PM

I've had a theory for quite some time that Inara is much older than she seems, and I think it is one of the main reasons she is hesitant to declare her love for Mal.

My take on what was in her syringe is an anti-aging drug, and the look on her face in that scene seemed to indicate her thoughts were like, "Well, that was all for nothing, wasn't it?"

wo men ren ran zai fei xing.

CAUSAL

Friday, December 22, 2006 4:34 PM

Oh god--not the immortal-Inara theory again...

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HERA7

Friday, December 22, 2006 4:37 PM

Here is something to consider, how old is Nandi? Inara and Nandi went through training together, so they have to be close to the same age. Nandi remarks how Inara looks the same since they last met. This brings up the question asked before, is or was Inara taking some sort of anti-aging treatment?

Hera7

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DTUCK

Friday, December 22, 2006 4:45 PM

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Originally posted by Causal:
Oh god--not the immortal-Inara theory again...

Yes indeed. That whole "There can be only one" thing... always wondered why she was proficient in swordplay.

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