Completely new "Inara's Syringe" theory...

POSTED BY: BadgersHat
UPDATED: Friday, May 28, 2004 03:17
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Thursday, May 27, 2004 7:54 PM

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Originally posted by BadgersHat:
What if Inara left for the black for a very particular reason, and the syringe is NOT a mind enhancer, or a suicide, or a life-saving med, or anything like that?
What if, and this is just my Hat's early-morning shake-out-the-dust moment here... but, what if she left, because she wants to become a mother?

what was it nathan fillion said in the commentary? oh yeah, "you see, she's a junkie". hahahaha! just kidding. interesting theory BadgersHat. I have to agree with some of the other posters, though, having children and still being part of the guild just do not seem to go hand in hand. some of her clients are quite upscale people (ath' wing

and the counselor) so i cannot imagine that she is no longer part of the guild, plus she does go for her annual checkup (although, admittedly, we cannot be sure that is where she actually went).

what if the stuff in that syringe was something like steroids that would turn her into the incredible hulk or something like that so she could fight off the reavers. hahahahaha! again, just kidding. i am in a strange mood.

of course, i say all this without any clue myself what that thing was for. could it possible be a drug like simon and river took (and tracey) that made them appear to be dead? i suppose the reavers would not care if she was dead, they would probably still butcher her anyway.

BADGERSHAT

Thursday, May 27, 2004 7:57 PM

Well, my point was, maybe she's left the home world because the Guild frowns upon parenthood, and maybe she's trying to reverse some birth control conditioning they put on her, and maybe she's going to eventually give the Guild up entirely...

Not too sure about Hulk-Inara... has a rather strange image in my mind...

--Jefé The Hat

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INSIGHT SPINNER

Thursday, May 27, 2004 9:12 PM

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Originally posted by BadgersHat:
Okay, try this on for size...

What if Inara left for the black for a very particular reason, and the syringe is NOT a mind enhancer, or a suicide, or a life-saving med, or anything like that?

What if, and this is just my Hat's early-morning shake-out-the-dust moment here... but, what if she left, because she wants to become a mother?

And what if part of her training at the Academy included some form of permanent or near permanent birth control, and the syringe was, in fact, some type of fertility treatment? And she glanced at it in a "If the Reavers get me this will have been all for nothing" kind of way?

Maybe there's some sort of policy/rule/law with Companions forbidding parenthood, and she's on the run to pursue being a mother, seeking a man that would be a compatible father?

Hmmmmm....

--Jefé The Hat

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"I like smackin 'em"--Jayne

Well, Mal already has a passel of children: Jayne, Kaylee, Simon and River and Wash counts, too.

Actually, I think this is an interesting theory, and clearly infertility treatment has been mighty simplified.

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Thursday, May 27, 2004 9:35 PM

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Ah, yes, but keep in mind, we've never seen her actually communicate with the Guild, we know she left the home world place very suddenly, we don't know that she's ACTUALLY still registered, we only hear what she's said, and we know there's a myustery behind it.

And we have no idea what types of punishments may be in store for a Companion who decides to go against Guild Law... which could very well be why she's on Serenity, sort of on the run.. but doesn't want anyone else to be privy to such details...

--Jefé The Hat

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Well, we have little evidence that she is not still registered, plus she renewed her registration as recently as the episode "Ariel", so she was in good standing up to that point...unless you suspect she is (dun-dun- DUUUNNNN) LYING. But she can't be a complete deception, that would be too easy. Plus, she gets clients through guild channels -- clients that fear censure from the guild, which is something she can wield over them (SHINDIG.

As for punishment, I think guild censure is probably punishment enough. It probably works the same as it does for clients.

Still, a fun theory.

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Thursday, May 27, 2004 9:39 PM

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But, keep in mind (yes, I say that a lot, I know) keep in mind that the sherrif seemed a bit skeptical about her, despite the papers being run twice... and Inara has proven herself to be rather resourceful, I wouldn't be surprised if she DID have an amazing set of fakes.

So there!

--Jefé The Hat

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"I like smackin 'em"--Jayne

I think he was sniffing the "o-dear" wafting off of Mal and Zoe. He suspected she wasn't what she said because of them. She could get them out because she was squeaky-clean -- and absolutely a companion in good standing, but she was also lying. That is what he smelled.

But still...she could have fakes.

Even while I debunk your theory, can you tell that I am enjoying it???!! Wacky Fun!

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CHUCKYBONES

Thursday, May 27, 2004 11:04 PM

Hat, that's a good idea. However, I have my own.

Anyone here watch Buffy? Specifically, the episode where Giles was doping her (on secret Council orders) so that she lost her Slayer powers. Watch that ep the next time you have a chance; I saw it a few days ago, and damned if it didn't look like Giles' drug kit was a dead ringer for Inara's.

Now, since Inara would've had no logical reason to lose her Slayer powers in the face of a Reaver attack (A - has no Slayer powers, B - would be damn handy for killing Reavers), I think Our Man Joss had something else in mind: turnabout. Inara (somehow) has a dose of some kind of combat drug, that would turn her (no, not into the Hulk; read that post) into an efficient combat machine. As he's done before, Joss ties one idea to something from one of his other series, but turns things around, so you don't know what to expect.

Another example of this? In the cut scene from Serenity where Simon listens to the history of the Battle of Serenity Valley, we hear that the Alliance general who masterminded the defeat of the Independents was named Book... er, I mean Richard Wilkins.

The Mayor of Sunnydale, the guy who transformed into a demon on Buffy & Company's graduation day? His name was Richard Wilkins.

Things that make you go "Hmmm..."

Death is too good for Fox Execs.

Chuckybones

MALICIOUS

Thursday, May 27, 2004 11:30 PM

Chucky!

Excellent extrapolation! I never noticed that Giles' kit was the same as, or similar to, Inara's. I'll have to pay close attention when I compare them this weekend.

Mal-licious

CYBERSNARK

Friday, May 28, 2004 1:53 AM

Guys, maybe commentary-Nathan wasn't just kidding around.

What if Inara is addicted to something. Maybe she left the Core so she'd be able to hide it. She can't break away from the addiction, even though it's killing her.

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LIGHTINTHEBRAINPAN

Friday, May 28, 2004 2:24 AM

Great speculations! My theory about Inara (and what it is, too) (sorry, I occasionally slip into Monty Pythonisms) is that she is some sort of "agent." (I'm sure this is something you FFF "veterans" have discussed to death, so sorry if I'm being redundant.) Her cover as a registered companion gives her access to all manner of important and sometimes powerful people. ... I have wondered whether the syringe is filled with a substance that acts as truth serum (eg, for extracting information that she then passes on to either the Alliance or the Resistance) or that renders people suggestible for traitorous acts. Now, why she would get that out in prep for Reavers, I don't know; that sort of is a hole in my theory, eh?

The other possibility is that the substance in the syringe is designed to make her flesh rather untasty to Reavers or perhaps downright poisonous.

Do we know what Reavers are? Are they feral humans? Mutant humans? I've not heard that explained.

The way Inara spoke about family before she told Mal she was going to leave... I understand the reference to the crew as family, but I almost thought that maybe there was another level of meaning; that she and Mal were sister and brother by blood and that she knew it. As in, his father had some kind of serious affair with her mother, I'm thinking. But that's pretty creepy, because clearly she's attracted to him and him to her, so we've got incest. No... it's probably just that she chose his ship because she's... observing him for either the Alliance (she's being forced to) or the Resistance (her father is involved somehow)... man, so many possibilities. Have to wait a whole year to find out!!!!

WILDHEAVENFARM

Friday, May 28, 2004 3:17 AM

Someone might have said this already, but the first thing that came to my mind after I heard Joss Whedon say that it wasn't a suicide kit, was maybe she's making herself poisonous to the Reavers who fix to eat her. Or, she's getting really, really high in her last moments. shrug

Mary
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