Subtle yet interesting show observations -- post yours
POSTED BY: AnimalM0ther
UPDATED: Friday, December 7, 2007 19:19
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Who is pressuring her?
Her Parents?(I am assuming she is not an orphan and that they would have had to sign off on the basic training when she was aged 12...which is total hyperbole. I really know nothing.)
Or it could just be expectation. Everyone just expected her to become a Companion. a great pride for those who know her.
Maybe she did not even consider anything else.
Just like Simon was meant to be a doctor from a pretty young age. It does not even have to look like pressure, but ambitious parents pushing for the best. Why would they want their children settle for second best?
I doubt the Guild would pressure people into joining. I am certain that is NOT a reputation they would like to have.
When you are ttrained for something from a very young age, it does limit choice, even if you have qualifications that mean you can choose a different path.
Ofcourse she could find another field of employment (I do not hold by the opinion that she would never leave), but why would she?
She likes her job (I guess. Just need to consider the camera play in the pilot episode as not disliking the job, but maybe boredom with the client?). She gets paid quite alot, is relatively respectd and has her freedom.
She is in a pretty comfortable spot with a vocation she is not at odds with. It can be hard moving from a comfort zone.
I am getting pretty good at conjecture and hyperbole.
With writing, can't ask for help til I have everything outlined.
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Well, Nandi describes Inara as focused, ambitious. That doesn't suggest outside pressure but rather actual free will.
And you yourself say that she might never have considered anything else, which is very very different from not having had a choice.
No choice, literally, means no choice. Or a choice between highly unequal alternatives, which isn't the case.
Inara's a strong woman. If she hadn't wanted to be a Companion, she would not have chosen it, even at age 18. A push-over wouldn't make for a good house priestess and emotionally attuned people like Companions should know that.
Even staying with something out of laziness or lack of drive is very much a choice, and I think we can both agree that that's not Inara's problem.
The camera play in the pilot eppy, in particular, is very deliberately timed not with talk about her profession but with talk about her leaving Sihnon, which is the only known point of conflict in Inara's past and we know nothing about what caused it.
Of course there is no definite proof either way, but all theories that imply Inara not having freely chosen her profession go against her character and behavior as portrayed on the show.
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First a quick comment on a previous post concerning the crew's spacesuits. (Not sure who exactly made the OP, and too inept to find it)
OP was wondering about the differences between Jayne's suit and the suits worn by Mal and Zoe.
Jayne's Suit-Loose, sort of flimsy, Bright Yellow, Shiny even. Helmet has good visibility to front, decent to sides. All fittings easily accesible to someone Else, not the suit's wearer.
Probably a common Laborer's suit, worn by Asteroid Miner's, Worker's at an Orbital Assembly Plant, or someone who is operating in a Low O2 atmosphere.
Bright colors so an "eyeball check" of the area let's you spot your buddy. Very important if some poor sod goes drifting off of a high orbital. Fittings arrainged so that your partner can handle bottle swaps, read gauges, etc. in case of emergency. Rugged enough and "cheap". Exactly the kind of suit a corporation or independent prospector would buy.
Mal and Zoes' suits-Snug, almost tight fitting. Appears to be made of much stronger materials. Dull, blends in. Very hard to see. Armor plating at critical locations. All fittings and controls accessible by the suits wearer. Helmet has good visibility all around.
Probably a "Raider" type suit used by the Independents in ship to ship action in space, or in combat in airless enviorments or toxic atmospheres.
Now for my observation. Severals of times our BDH's use a little handi talkie/communicator for person to person or ground to ship radio traffic. Most notably the final moments of "Ariel" and in "HoG". We've all seen it, that little black box. Took me a couple of veiwings to realize just what they (the props people) had used.
Back in the mid '80's a company, and I honestly can't remember who it was, developed a gizmo to assist in the location and rescue of trapped Firefighter's. It is a small box that hangs on the FF's SCBA (air) harness. Inside are tremblor switches and a timing circuit and a few other features. When a FF stops moving, the gizmo starts counting and if no movement occurs within a specified time, a Very Loud tone begins to sound and a Bright, Very bright strobe light begins to flash. All in hopes that the FF can be found in time.
Well, they weren't black, they were a very bright yellow. And they worked.
They called them Fireflys'.
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In the Message, you notice that Jayne is wearing a T-shirt that mirrors his actions in Ariel. It's a man, looking guilty, and on the phone, kind of like when he's making the call to betray River and Simon. Also, there is a blue skull and crossbones. Hands of Blue anyone?
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in Bushwacked, Wash is interrogated on an alliance ship and questioned about Zoe. he asks his interrogator if he's ever been with a warrior woman.
Gina Torres was on Xena i think.
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Not Firefly, but related anyhow....
I was watching season 5 of Seinfeld and in about mid-season (right around "The Cigar Store Indian" ep) one of George's potential employers was none other than Niska himself. I just thought that was kinda cool.
"A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned." http://www.myspace.com/6ixstringjack
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not too subtle: in The Message, Mal says he doesn't want to jeopardize Inara's career, and she says "the career which you abhor?". sounds like what he always calls her.
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