My Theory on Inara's Vial
POSTED BY: DanielFyre
UPDATED: Saturday, October 27, 2007 07:43
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You know something that I just thought of since you mentioned that her flesh might be poisonous to eat Im wondering if it was possible for the reavers to perhaps sense that she had this toxin in her system. Because there is the one account where the reavers left a survivor.
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The Reavers are still human. Same senses (apart from "common"), same strengths, same weaknesses. I doubt thye would be able to smell it. However, after a few of them drop dead the rest may cotton on...
The survivor in Bushwacked was, as Mal suggested, not really a survivor. He would become one of them.
PS, may I suggest two classes of Reavers?
1. Those we saw in the series. Men gone mad at the edge of space. These have always been there. Always will be. More like pirates really, but totally unruly. The folklore was originally about this group.
2. Those of the BDM - these are called Reavers because they fit the stories of the others "real" Reavers. This is a single generation that will eventually die out. Unless there is more Pax around than we know.
Ofcourse this is an attemopt to fit the changes in Joss's vision between the series and the BDM.
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I think it's more scary if Reavers do what they do, because they consciously enjoy it, rather than some mindless animalistic state.
Like Jagang's horde in SoT.
Dude, brain fart! What if there *are* two different kinds of Reavers, just new and old.
Like, maybe the old reavers are from some older PAX experiment, just slightly as crazy as the new one's, since maybe they're more evolved(learned to love the PAX) and social(by Reaver standards). Maybe the old one's keep some of the new one's on board their ships; maybe release some as cannon fodder every now and then.
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Originally posted by RahlMaclaren:
I think it's more scary if Reavers do what they do, because they consciously enjoy it, rather than some mindless animalistic state.
The raping pillaging and murdering maybe, but the self mutilation and flying with unshielded reactors? "Where does that get fun?"
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Not an experiment or Pax or anything (as that would be too close to what we have with the Miranda Generation), but people gone "mad". Or pirates with nothing holding them back, who do as they please and either enjoy it as you suggested, or at least have no qualms about it. It is their way of life.
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Originally posted by RahlMaclaren:
I think it's more scary if Reavers do what they do, because they consciously enjoy it, rather than some mindless animalistic state.
The raping pillaging and murdering maybe, but the self mutilation and flying with unshielded reactors? "Where does that get fun?"
Self mutilation - tribal markings, extreme tattoos.
Unshielded ships - either for speed, or they don't have no effective/working shielding that they can use. Afterall these are probably older ships, well past their natural lifespan.
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If I remeber correctly didnt Mal say that they do that as a tactic to get ships to come and help because they would think that the ship is in destress? Not sure if he said that or not but that would be my thought to why they dont have shielding around their reactors.
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Kinda sorta like angler fish.
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To get back to Inara and her vial.
This is totally from my own imagination and the "I don't want to die" line.
It's not a youth serum or fix for a terminal disease or kill your rapist drug.
It'S maybe the thing that was meant to kill Inara. My wild theory is that Inara, as a very successful Companion, unintentionally made a very powerful enemy.
Maybe it was another Companion who was jealous of Inara's success or her the fact that she was obviously going to be the next House Priestess, or it could have been one of her clients with a secret that she discovered.
Either one of them could have tried to kill Inara, but it was ultimately unsuccessful. The House Priestess persuaded Inara to leave for her own safety and to avoid scandal for the House. So she carries the vial as a reminder of how close she came to losing her life.
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Wasn't this question dealt with in the CE cast commentary? I'm pretty sure it was and it was revealed that the serum in the vial would make having sex with Inara deadly. It was not a suicide drug or a life extension drug.
As to why she would use the serum against the Reavers, as mentioned earlier in this thread it would've been to take as many with her as possible. I doubt that she would have had any illusions about being able to kill them all off.
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