Last Mal/Inara quote (Serenity)

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VERONIC

Saturday, February 14, 2009 4:24 PM

Hi¡
Sorry if this thread is repeated

I never understood the last sentence:
"I don´t know"

What's mean?
She stay?

Kisses ;)

SCHISM

Saturday, February 14, 2009 4:33 PM

Where was this said?

I don't recal.

BYTEMITE

Saturday, February 14, 2009 4:41 PM

It's not in character for her to say "No, I'm staying" to Mal, so she says "I don't know" and smiles instead.

So the implication is that she chooses to remain on Serenity. She loves the crew too much to go again and post-Miranda they really need her. She'll be with them all at least until they've recovered somewhat emotionally, beyond that I'm not sure.

I don't think she was that fulfilled being a teacher in the training house. In a deleted scene in Serenity, she talks about how she doesn't think the students (all young adults, she started training when she was 12) can be taught well enough out on the Rim; she's the one training them.

So continuing her life on Serenity would seem to be the option she considers more worthwhile. You've mentioned that you don't think she'd continue being a companion: I think she would because she still has something to prove to Mal, and Mal would allow it because he wouldn't want to lose her again. Any other way would make Inara resent Mal, she'd feel like she had to give up her life to be near him.

VERONIC

Saturday, February 14, 2009 4:49 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Bytemite:
It's not in character for her to say "Yes, of course I'll stay" to Mal, so she says "I don't know" and smiles instead.

So the implication is that she chooses to remain on Serenity. She loves the crew too much to go again and post-Miranda they really need her. She'll be with them all at least until they've recovered somewhat emotionally, beyond that I'm not sure.

I don't think she was that fulfilled being a teacher in the training house. In a deleted scene in Serenity, she talks about how she doesn't think the students (all young adults, she started training when she was 12) can be taught well enough out on the Rim; she's the one training them.

So continuing her life on Serenity would seem to be the option she considers more worthwhile. You've mentioned that you don't think she'd continue being a companion: I think she would because she still has something to prove to Mal, and Mal would allow it because he wouldn't want to lose her again. Any other way would make Inara resent Mal, she'd feel like she had to give up her life to be near him.

Interesting.
I agree with you, but in the first Serenity script, Whedon write this:

"We see the scene cut from the movie of Mal and Inara talking in her shuttle, although here he’s intriqued when she admits she hasn’t taken any clients since she left."
http://www.serenitystuff.com/2006/07/01/the-earlier-longer-script-for-
serenity/

So, Inara is not a whore more (or a Companion), she is a teacher.

BYTEMITE

Saturday, February 14, 2009 4:57 PM

I know, I've seen that scene, they filmed it and editted it out.

But it's also suggested she wasn't fulfilled being a teacher, and even if she were she couldn't do that flying around the 'verse. Either she'd have to find a different job within the Companion Guild (because she loves being a member), or she'd become a Companion again.

She might help out with the odd job the crew takes on, because there's hints she enjoys some of the excitement of the crime they do, but I really don't think she could become a criminal full-time so long as she still had the companion option, and maybe not even when she didn't. Mal would have an apoplectic fit over that, he does NOT want her in his line of work, and it'd be putting her in danger.

Mal was willing to accept her even before she gave up being a companion. At the end of the episode Heart of Gold, before she tells him she's leaving, he was clearly about to make his move on her.

EDIT: Wait, maybe I'm confused about the scene you're talking about. I have to see whether it's at the end of the movie, or if it's the scene after Jayne insults Mal's leadership.

EDIT: Yeah, it's the scene I'm thinking of.

PLATONIST

Saturday, February 14, 2009 5:00 PM

I look at Inara's line and Mal's line after that as probably the most honest lines that they've ever shared. None of us know what the future holds, hence "I don't know", and it's a "good answer".

And Inara may still be a Companion, but she doesn't have to prove anything to anyone. If she chooses to continue Companioning it’s her choice that works for her, same if she chooses a different path, again her choice, which she will learn to live with and not blame anyone or live in regret. And it's Mal that affords her that choice, because he is all about freedom, and that's why she loves Serenity and her family there.

VERONIC

Saturday, February 14, 2009 5:02 PM

Quote:

EDIT: Wait, maybe I'm confused about the scene you're talking about. I have to see whether it's at the end of the movie, or if it's the scene after Jayne insults Mal's leadership.

I'm talking about last scene, when Inara says "I don´t know" and smiles.

Inara was a whore (Companion), but she wasn´t in love for anybody. When she falls in love, she can´t be a whore for more time.

PD: Sorry my english.

AURAPTOR

Saturday, February 14, 2009 5:11 PM

2 things keep coming back to me....

Her reaction to finding out that Mal had slept w/ Nandi. As one who professes at not being puritanical about sex, it clearly hit her - hard.

The syringe in the box she went for when the Reaver ship passed close by, and kept on going. There's been much talk about Inara having an medical condition, which will cut her life short, and she knows this. That's likely why she left the training house, because she wanted to live an see what of the 'verse she can. And why she can't get close to Mal, or any man, for there's simply no future there, and she'd not risk anyone else's heart for her having a shortened life. Mal and Serenity give her all she could ask for.... a 'family', adventure, a bit of romance ( with Mal ) but none of the complications of a committed relationship.

I like the thought of her staying on, as a means of helping the healing process, after Serenity lost 2 of her crew. Her presence brings back light and warmth that's been absent , and makes the void of Wash and Book's death easier to bear.

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VERONIC

Saturday, February 14, 2009 5:13 PM

In one comic Simon visits Inara and we think because Inara is ill.
This can be true.

AURAPTOR

Saturday, February 14, 2009 5:15 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by veronic:
In one comic Simon visits Inara and we think because Inara is ill.
This can be true.

Oh? Which one ? I have some of them, but haven't read them. Of course, she IS a companion, and as careful as she is, still.... with her line of work, things happen. But who knows ?

It is not those who use the term "Islamo-Fascism" who are sullying the name of Islam; it is the Islamo-Fascists. - Dennis Prager

" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "

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