What song would Inara sing ?

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BYTEMITE

Thursday, June 18, 2009 1:39 PM

Les Miserables would also be good, especially if the second unification war was going on or something.

GWEK

Thursday, June 18, 2009 1:49 PM

"Anything Goes."

In Chinese.

Maybe while Mal is trying to trade an urn for a diamond.

www.stillflying.net: "Here's how it might have been..."

NEWOLDBROWNCOAT

Thursday, June 18, 2009 2:08 PM

Scary! I'm working on a piece with the exact same notion, if I ever get it moving.

But I'll give you THE song:

" We'll sing in the sunshine" by Gale Garnet, circa 1963. It's available on YouTube. Manages to perfectly capture the attitude of a Companion.

First verse:

" I will never love you,
the cost of love's too dear.
But tho' I'll never love you,
I'll stay with you one year."

It's wise, sexy, understanding, cynical and a little bit sad.

AGENTROUKA

Thursday, June 18, 2009 2:17 PM

Inara actually doesn't strike me as a singer at all. She seems too private and reserved for that, and she enjoys focusing on other people, professionally.

I could more easily see her play piano for someone else's singing, or being a painter/photographer who does artsy portraits.

BYTEMITE

Thursday, June 18, 2009 4:57 PM

*poke*

It IS alternate universe...

MAL4PREZ

Thursday, June 18, 2009 8:08 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Bytemite:
*poke*

It IS alternate universe...

Does alternate universe mean alternate characterizations? Cause, gotta say, I agree with AR.

Though, an alternate universe with Inara singing punk would be a hoot LOL!

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THESOMNAMBULIST

Thursday, June 18, 2009 8:42 PM

I don't know the exact title but that song with the words:

"Fly me to the moon" Or "Moon River"

Then as was cleverly pointed out, if it is an alternater reality then something out of character could work. So something with a little more bite to it like:

"Zombie" by the Cranberry's or maybe a classic from the Pretenders "Don't get me wrong..."

AGENTROUKA

Thursday, June 18, 2009 8:50 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Bytemite:
*poke*

It IS alternate universe...

Yes, I know.

But I always figured alternate universe means the characters stay the same at their core and it's the circumstances around them and their effect on them that are changed.

For example, I could see Kaylee born and raised in Simon's world, with greater intellectual refinement and accustomed to privilege, but what would make her Kaylee would be that genuine openness to people and experiences, her sense of humor and her faith in her own convicions.

BYTEMITE

Thursday, June 18, 2009 8:53 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by mal4prez:
Quote:
Originally posted by Bytemite:
*poke*

It IS alternate universe...
Does alternate universe mean alternate characterizations? Cause, gotta say, I agree with AR.

Though, an alternate universe with Inara singing punk would be a hoot LOL!

No, not really, unless that's the point of the alternate universe, but then why write in the characters at all?

However, Inara could still be the same character in a different job (Even though canon Inara might disagree with me!). I don't know why that's so unreasonable.

Granted, her job is part of what makes the conflict she has with Mal so interesting, and none of that has ever really been resolved, and that's why I like her in it...

But a universe with a superstar songstress/opera singer Inara who wants to live a quiet modest life, but is under increasing stress from her fans and managers could also be an interesting take on the verse.

If she's really high A-list, it could throw in commentary on social class that Firefly and Serenity really only brush the surface of. Increases the gap, if you will, because even though Inara is higher on the social totem pole than most of the Rim, my impression is she's still mostly on the outside looking in at society royalty.

WASHNWEAR

Thursday, June 18, 2009 9:17 PM

Anything but scat.

And that's Ella Fitzgerald "scat", not CSI "scat"...

...although for me they're largely synonymous.

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Still...what would Rorschach do?

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