Theory on Inara's Needle Box Thingy

POSTED BY: geordiesteve2003
UPDATED: Thursday, February 26, 2004 18:48
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SHINY

Thursday, February 26, 2004 12:21 AM

Don't get Inara mad...you wouldn't like her when she's mad...

RIVER
Purple elephants are flying.
MAL
Good. Thanks for the update.

IRISANNE

Thursday, February 26, 2004 1:57 AM

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Originally posted by Shiny:
Don't get Inara mad...you wouldn't like her when she's mad...

Or GREEN!

DAVCO92

Thursday, February 26, 2004 5:15 AM

I still think her secret is that she's dying of some untreatable disease/cancer/whatever. When River looked at Inara and heard "Just tell me" I immediately thought of that as part of a conversation with a doctor delivering the bad news to her. Needle could be a strong pain killer or sedative, possibly lethal in large doses. Of course, "Just tell me" could have ended with "you're pregnant", but that seems unlikely to me. I'm sure all Companions have some form of very effective contraceptive, just like they have standard immunization packs (which she gave to Simon).

Burn the land, boil the sea...

SHINY

Thursday, February 26, 2004 5:59 AM

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Originally posted by Davco92:
I still think her secret is that she's dying of some untreatable disease/cancer/whatever. When River looked at Inara and heard "Just tell me" I immediately thought of that as part of a conversation with a doctor delivering the bad news to her.

I had the same thought after watching it many times, as discussed near the end of this thread:

http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=3415

RIVER
Purple elephants are flying.
MAL
Good. Thanks for the update.

PALEHORSE

Thursday, February 26, 2004 3:06 PM

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Of course, "Just tell me" could have ended with "you're pregnant", but that seems unlikely to me. I'm sure all Companions have some form of very effective contraceptive, just like they have standard immunization packs (which she gave to Simon).

The contracption factor to pregnancy is a tertiary consideration at best in my theory.

The real kicker is that she would be carying a terrible secret. Joss says in the comentary that they were going somewhere interesing with this syringe. It would be interesting for the Order of Companions to have a political agenda.

Not an adiction
Not suicide
River is a telepath
The Hulkster would most likely accidentaly kill the crew anyways
Disasociative drugs don't feel very Joss to me
Inara with a killer bio-weapon seems untrue to her character

But it all comes down to the fact that none of us knows for certain where they were going with this plot twist.

There were prodigies and portents enough, One-Eye says. We must blame ourselves for misinterpreting them. One-Eye's handicap in no way impairs his marvelous hindsight.

NEWSCAPER

Thursday, February 26, 2004 6:10 PM

If it is a needle and NOT a data chip of some sort...

I do find a shot to unlock a suspended pregnancy interesting.
Or perhaps the syringe *contains* an embryo which has been extracted and is in stasis?

I asusme the Companions have strong rules about getting pregnant -- particularly not accidentally from a client (maybe one she loved?).
She wouldn't abort so she's out in the black, working, but laying low in effect to avoid discovery of her rule-breaking.

Just pulling ideas out of the usual orifice.

KOIPOND

Thursday, February 26, 2004 6:34 PM

logic says it isn't a drug that induces a death-like state in which Inara plans to weather the Reaver attack only to wake in a day/week. Reavers are canibalistic crazies that rape, eat and flay their victims. what good is being 'pretend' dead if your limbs will be hacked off, your skin removed and you die from blood loss.

another piece of info that points to the terminal illness thing, would be during the comentary for "Serenity", the symbol on Inara's hourglass is translated by Joss as 'Short Time'. that in and on itself is not that big of a deal, but when you notice that for all the other Chinese, both written and spoken, that is the only one he translates for us, it makes you go 'hmmmmm'.

SHINY

Thursday, February 26, 2004 6:48 PM

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Originally posted by koipond:
another piece of info that points to the terminal illness thing, would be during the comentary for "Serenity", the symbol on Inara's hourglass is translated by Joss as 'Short Time'. that in and on itself is not that big of a deal, but when you notice that for all the other Chinese, both written and spoken, that is the only one he translates for us, it makes you go 'hmmmmm'.

I had always taken that to be a joke on how short clients feel their time with Inara has been, and while it could very well have a double meaning, the way Joss described it in the commentary sounded more like it was the set guys who came up with it rather than something Joss had asked for specifically.

RIVER
Purple elephants are flying.
MAL
Good. Thanks for the update.

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