Why does Inara have a brain melter?
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Ok in Serenity when the Reaver's first show up, Inara pulls out a small box, in it there is a strange shaped object and a syringe.
I thought it was probably a suicide kit. Joss then made the comment that it wasn't that at all but a clue to her background. Hmmmmm...
So then you get to Ariel and we meet a little more indepth the Hands of Blue guys. And they pull this interesting little object out of their pocket and begin to melt brains.
Now go back to Serenity.....It seems remarkably like the gadget that's in Inara's little box.
Am I brain-blown or do you see what I see?
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My disc one is out on loan right now, so I can't check. But I don't recall Inara's objects looking anything like the Blue Hand guy's "brain melter." One of the objects appeared to be a vial of something, possibly a syringe, the other I couldn't really identify but again, it looked nothing like the brain melter, IMO.
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All right, you had me very curious, so I loaded up Disc 1 and went through frame-by frame with 4x zoom and the brightness on my TV up to very high. There are two objects in the wooden case: one is clearly a slim glass hypodermic needle vial with metric markings, and the other is an unidentifiable glass vial with a dark fluid. The lighting was simply too dark to pick up anything other than the cap of the vial, the fact that there were dark contents, and that it's sort of an antique-looking vial (not very modern).
Perhaps someone could screen-cap it and use digital analysis to contrast stretch the image, but I'd guess there's simply no data in the pixels on the vial (too dark - all black).
Regardless, I didn't see any evidence of a brain melter there - just a vial and a needle...sorry...great, great idea, though!
- Forrestwolf
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Yeah I pulled it frame by frame as well and what struck me was that in the episode Ariel when he first removes the (for lack of a better word) melter from his pocket it's shaped almost exactly the same as the vial in Inara's box.
That's what got me to thinking.
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Originally posted by Forrestwolf:
Perhaps someone could screen-cap it and use digital analysis to contrast stretch the image,
Okay.
Here it is unmodified:
Here it is enhanced:
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So not a brain melter. Inara is so, whats the word...dainty? I'm not going to go so far as to say she wouldn't kill anybody (or hasn't) but if she did, i couldn't see her doing something that would take so long and kill the people so painfully. Getting "melted" would be a really crapy way to die, and im not convinced she could stand there and watch while she was holding the button.
So basicly, not a brain melter.
While were on the subject and sense i'm too lazy to dig up the tread where we talked about this, what if the kit was for killing someone, but not her. It might have been the only defence she had against reavers, right?
Mal: Hell, I'd do this job for free!
Zoe: Can I have your share?
Mal: No.
Zoe: If you die can I have your share?
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justdavid- Thanks, can you do the same with the object the Blue Hand Guys have? You know, as it's coming out of his pocket, maybe... before the rods pop out?
I think it's possible that it's a brain melter... I don't think it would be her weapon of choice, but against Reavers? If I had one, I'd use a brain melter against them. My understanding is that they're kind of hard to stop without extreme measures.
If it is a brain melter, I'd assume the syringe is some sort of immunity shot so that it doesn't melt your brain when you use it.
I don't know what Inara's past is, but it seems to me that a Companion would be one hell of an assasin/spy.
If Zoe walks into a room, even in a slinky dress, she still reads as a threat. If Kaylee walks into a room... she's just going to pelt you with skittles until you smile.
Inara is highly trained on how to.... manuever people and control their responses.
And, as she says in Out Of Gas, she "supported unification." In what way and to what degree is anyone's guess.
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ok im not saying it wouldn't be usefull against reavers, im saying i don't see why she would need it in the first place? Why would she be expecting reavers? If Simon doesn't beleve in them (initaly) why should she...
We are definatly missing something here.
Mal: Hell, I'd do this job for free!
Zoe: Can I have your share?
Mal: No.
Zoe: If you die can I have your share?
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Sorry, but just because Simon's sheltered doesn't mean that Inara is.
I don't know why she'd have one (maybe she was involved with an Alliance muckity-muck who gave her one), but then there's a good deal that Joss hasn't told us about her yet.
(Here's to believing he'll get the chance.)
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