Why does Inara have a brain melter?
POSTED BY: Da
UPDATED: Sunday, April 4, 2004 07:06
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I think Inara is an assassin sent to kill Mal, and she looks at the needle regretting that either 1. she didn't get a chance to do what she came for, or 2. she is actually glad she didn't. That is why she tells Mal that she is leaving, because she cares for him and just can't kill him.
Companions would be perfect assassins, considering their clients.
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I seriously doubt if Inara is an assassin. She had too many opportunities to kill Mal long before she fell in love with him, the first being during the initial tour of the shuttle as shown in "Out of Gas."
Perhaps an undercover agent sent to see if Mal or anyone else was plotting a counter-offensive against the Alliance, but not an assassin.
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I can see Inara as an assasin or a spy.... I just don't think Mal's her target.... He doesn't seem important enough in the grand scheme of things to have the Alliance targeting him.
Like Joss said, part of the reason Mal and the others are on a "firefly" is because they represent an annoyance to the Mighty Alliance.
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Every well-bred petty crook knows that the small concealable weapons always go to the far left of the place setting.
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I'm all for the "Inara is dying" theory; her fear of death, her last "annual check up" coming VERY CLOSE to when she first boarded the ship, how she hates "complications", but best of all IMO, in the Serenity commentary, where Joss talks about the 'timer' and how under it, in chinese, it says "short time" (something very similar) which we all think is a joke about the John and his shortcomings (cough!), but it could very well mean something more.
I personally think it was something akin to morphine, something to make her death painless - this also explains why she took it out for the reavers.
It falls in line with the Whedon/Minear philosophy towards killing off characters; I could very easily see Inara leaving the ship for a while (up until the end of the season) and then coming back and proclaiming her love for Mal, only to have her die in his arms.
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