Inara's secret.
POSTED BY: peacekeeper
UPDATED: Saturday, June 6, 2009 20:50
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That would be me
Aspects of Mal
http://www.soulfulspike.com/aspects_of_mal.htm
Maybe "using others" was a poor choice of words.
Can we agree he needs to work on being more sensitive to others:)
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Oh yeah. Opens his mouth, and sometimes darkness comes out. Can't help it just yet, but he really needs to learn to. Settle that impatience and frustration down a bit.
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Originally posted by peacekeeper:
Just found a video on youtube from Dragoncon '08.Morena revealed Inara's secret.Is this common knowledge or should I keep my mouth shut?
Ok, after digging through youtube for over an hour, I finally found the reveal you were talking about and I was stunned. I'd seen that theory before but had dismissed it (thought it had to be more complex or sinister...not that it isn't, just diff. from what I imagined). It changes things as to the why's and consequences of peoples actions and how the story would have evolved.
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I just found it out through watching that video too. My reaction was pretty much that same heart sinking silence shared by everybody in the audience. I'd never heard that theory before at all - I'd heard the anti-aging, the rape and the secret child theories but not the actual truth. Im still kinda conflicted actually about whether i'm glad I know or not. Its a 'yay now I understand more of her character' and also a 'nooo it's so sad'. Also now there's no hope for a truly happy ending for her and Mal - not one that lasts anyhow. Did anybody else feel the same when they first found out or am I just a complete moon-brain?
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Well, I actually didn't feel complete despair, because all Morena and Joss confirmed is that
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She is DYING, not that she is GOING TO DIE.
Knowing Joss' tragedy leanings, the two things might mean the same thing, but then again, why bother making the distinction?
Two ways for it to go, either the crew pulls together and saves Inara, or we have a lovely piece of angst. I'm hoping we don't get the angst, but I have to admit either storyline has so much potential.
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If we did get the angst you know it would be horrible but heart achingly beautiful at the same time, all because of the genius of Joss.
I don't understand what you mean about the crew pulling together to save her. If it's a question of money to pay for the cure she could pay herself or the Guild could pay. Simon is the only doctor and he's technically a trauma surgeon, working on cures for unknown medical problems isn't his forte. I suppose River could be of some help, though with what exactly I don't know. What can the crew do to help?
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At least during the course of the movie, every single person on Serenity had fugitive status, including Inara. I say this going by the scene cut from the movie, and from the extras on the Blue Ray Disc.
I don't know if the Operative managed to get any of them off the Cortex Interpol. If not, the guild couldn't help Inara too much.
Of course, if they were all fugitives, it'd make life after Miranda pretty much impossible for all of them. They'd already have enough problems getting work. So, I would say everyone except Simon and River are free and clear.
But with a training house attacked and reports of an Operative visiting just before, even IF the guild didn't put two and two together about the Miranda broadwave, Inara would still have a lot to answer for. Going to the guild to explain herself, furthermore, could give the Alliance a very nice hostage to hold over the crew.
Inara being able to continue with the guild after Miranda, therefore, would be very unlikely. However, that doesn't mean I don't think some elements of the guild aren't sympathetic to her plight.
If Inara gets help, it'll be from the crew. Simon is a trauma surgeon, but he has medical expertise in other areas, enough that he can figure out treatment plans and medication possibilities and doses (look at River! He's not exactly a psychologist or a neurologist, but she does make some improvements). And if the guild can't help overtly (they might supply anonymous hints and information, even facility security information), then the crew has to procure what Inara needs to get better.
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If it's as simple as the Guild paying for a cure, they would have done so a long time ago and then she wouldn't be dying anymore, which doesn't make for much of a story, and what else does the crew really have to do...just saying.
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Originally posted by Platonist:
If it's as simple as the Guild paying for a cure, they would have done so a long time ago and then she wouldn't be dying anymore, which doesn't make for much of a story, and what else does the crew really have to do...just saying.
Let's pretend that we know a dramatic reason why Inara is delaying her Guild paid cure. Inara might have to become medical “Sleeping Beauty”, hibernating for 99 years while each cell in her body has its DNA repaired. It's a very hi-tech, science-fiction kind of cure. By the time she wakes, everyone she knows and loves would be dead. That's good reason to delay the cure and take herself away from her old friends in the Core while she makes her farewell tour of the 'Verse. Nothing will be the same when she awakens. And then Inara tragically makes more friends on Serenity that she will also say goodbye to forever.
The only happy ending possible is that all Inara's new friends go into hibernation with her. I think Serenity should take a sub-light-speed trip to Earth, which is a great storytelling excuse for everybody to sleep with Inara for 99 years. Because Inara and Jayne don't like one another, maybe Jayne stays behind to talk in the bars and brothels about his glory days serving on Serenity. That would be a shiny ending to Serenity 2, with Jayne, gray-haired and wrinkled, raising his beer-stein and giving a toast to his still young crew-mates in hibernation, who are halfway to Earth. He regrets that he didn't go with them. Maybe he says something funny and nice about the Tams. Or maybe not.
YouTube - Morena Baccarin's Spoiler! - Inara's Secret =
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