Inara?

POSTED BY: xElrohiRx
UPDATED: Friday, March 16, 2007 10:31
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XELROHIRX

Sunday, March 4, 2007 10:00 AM

I'm a native speaker of English, lmao. BTW, I was referring to later in the episode when she comes back from the examination. Reguardless it's not a big deal... O.o

hmmph!!

BLUEEYEDBRIGADIER

Sunday, March 4, 2007 6:07 PM

My sincerest and humblest apologies then...never meant to cause offence, just offer possibilites

And it must be quite the slip when nobody on-set caught originally, the network and TV censors missed it and this is the first time I have heard the idea mentioned

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AGENTROUKA

Monday, March 5, 2007 8:28 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by xElrohiRx:
I'm a native speaker of English, lmao. BTW, I was referring to later in the episode when she comes back from the examination. Reguardless it's not a big deal... O.o

hmmph!!

I've been trying to find it, but... where exactly does it say "insemination"? Don't they just talk about cold exam tables and needles when she comes back?

DONCOAT

Monday, March 5, 2007 10:23 PM

Has anybody tried turning on the subtitles? Of course we all know how comically wrong they can be, but it would give an independent "ear" on the issue.

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ZEEK

Monday, March 5, 2007 10:52 PM

First off "insemination" is no where to be found in the shooting script. No one even says the word examination either apparently. So, I don't know where any of that is coming from.

Anyway I think we see 3 times that Inara is aloof about examinations. First when she doesn't want Simon to examine her after she kissed Mal in Our Mrs. Reynolds. Then in Ariel she sort of dodges the subject of her exam. Then (and this one's a stretch) in Out of Gas when Mal tries to look at her bloody lip she catches him before he can touch her.

Some sort of blood disorder maybe? Could it be contagious? Seems like a bad thing to have if you're bumping uglies a lot.

BLUEEYEDBRIGADIER

Monday, March 5, 2007 11:23 PM

Personally, I like to think Inara, like every active Guild member, is a Typhoid Mary. Like she's a carrier for a tailor-made virus that attacks without mercy, but she's immune. Might explain the scene in the pilot when she is contemplating the vial. Cure or a concentrated dose? And before someone asks why would Companions be made into Typhoid Marys, I would argue it's the height of poetic justice to have people who live by "the sword" die by it. Probably an antidote in the tea Companions serve to clients`

And to cover Zeek's points, I think someone could logically argue reasons for Inara's reticence about being examined each time:

1) Simon's request to examine her after smooching Mal in Our Mrs. Reynolds? Uh...she doesn't want it know she smooched Mal cuz there would be traces of the Goodnight Kiss drug on her lips?

2) Inara's reticence to talk about her yearly medical appointment in Ariel? Uh...let's see...Guild-required confidentiality, none of their fucking business, some less-than-happy diagnosis she doesn't wanna share (i.e. cancer, Parkinson's, etc.)

3) Inara flinching at Mal's touch of her busted lip Objects in Space? Uh...it hurts! And she probably came close to being raped by a crazy bounty hunter, so I don't think intimate touch from someone like Mal (someone she actually wants touching her) would be on the top of her list of things to do right then

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KAYLEELOVE

Monday, March 5, 2007 11:57 PM

Because this is long winded, I'll put my conclusion first and if you want to read my explaination, go ahead

It's possible that Inara's parents were planning for her to be the companion of one man, that is marry her to a rich man (like an arranged marriage common in Indian culture) Companion training must be really expensive, the to-be-husband could have paid for it all if Inara's family couldn't just because he really wanted a quality wife. Maybe when Inara came of age, she didn't love him or he was really old and she chose to run away. She probably would have been disowned

reasoning coming up to this:
I think the reason she dodges examination in Mrs. Reynolds is because she doesn't want anyone to know that she kissed the captain and when the captain sees her bloodly lip, she could have just been uncomfortable having the captain so close to her with all the drama

I wonder about Inara's family. Did her family approve of her choice as a companion? There was another thread recently about Inara's ethnic background being Middle Eastern or Indian. I really think that she's Indian because of the buddah in her room and her clothes are more Indian style. Anyway, if you go into Indian tradition, people only fall in love once; widows were looked down upon if they remarried and there was even suti--wives being burned (alive) with their dead husbands ---the guild may have learned a lot about being good companions from the Indian tradition but I don't think the family honor aspect of Indian culture would ever allow for a woman sleeping with a lot of men to be of high social stature, rather the opposite; her family if still thinking Indian culture would disown her

What if she made a decision long ago to pick her career over her family? What if they didn't agree with her choice and asked her to leave? What would it mean if she actually did pursue a relationship with the captain--that is would it be to give up her career for family after being so focused on her ambition?

I was always curious about the companion training. How can they start at the age of 12--wouldn't their parents have a say in the matter at that age? I kinda remember Inara saying at the academy that when she was in it they talked about discipline a lot more and never started sexual training as young as they are now. How would they know that's the career they want to do for the rest of their lives?

Is there like a 12-16 or 18 program for non-sexual pre-training? Because if there were, I don't think Indian parents would be opposed to training on things like tea making and foot washing, but maybe there's a point where companions decide if they want to be one person's companion or entertain many clients. (expanding her client base might have been from one to many)

What if Inara's parents were planning to have their daughter to be the companion of one person, like marry her to a rich person who wants a really quality wife (maybe an arranged marriage), but the guy was too old for Inara, or she just didn't love him and she ran away

It's interesting how Inara's culture is neither the mainstream western or chinese heritage. I actually have Pakistani ethnicity myself but even growing up in the US, Indian/Pakistani families still teach their kids their values even if it's not the mainstream values

XELROHIRX

Tuesday, March 6, 2007 4:07 AM

I think Mal scares her a little, IMO. So yes the flinch would make sense, again the not wanting to be examined in "Our Ms. Reynolds" that was out of embarrassment for kissing Mal whilst knocked out.

I didn't mean to make people upset when I made this post, but doesn't there seem to be something amiss with Inara, the detachment from feeling or at least the reason why she is so secretive of everything, sure the companion lifestyle calls for discreteness but to be honest what girl doesn't kiss and tell at least someone. *shrug*

Hmmmmmmmmmmm Indeed.

KAYLEELOVE

Tuesday, March 6, 2007 7:22 AM

well after you've kissed a lot of people, doesn't it get boring after a while? I mean empty love making isn't really exciting is it? so why go tell people about it...

she made a few comments to Kaylee such as "I think I'm loosing my touch" If things are going badly, you'd think she wouldn't go into detail

anytime she made a comment, it would have to be something bad or good

bad would make her not like her profession anymore

good would could start her thinking she really likes the person and that would be detrimental to her biz

Mal doesn't go spilling his guts to people, so why should Inara?

KAYLEELOVE

Tuesday, March 6, 2007 7:35 AM

By the way, is there anything about Inara's parents or that she was an orphan in Firefly cus I don't think I remember anything else said about her past

I know my "running from an arranged marriage" idea is way out there but I wonder in the development of the Firefly verse, where all the other cultures would go I mean India does have the 2nd biggest population in the world today, doesn't it? isn't it growing in population faster than any other nation?

and how in the world did whoring become a thing of great respectability in the future?

I'm having way too much fun talking about this, I'm not upset or anything and I hope no one else is from my comments

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