Last Mal/Inara quote (Serenity)

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NCBROWNCOAT

Sunday, February 15, 2009 2:53 PM

I do love the deleted scene between Mal and Inara in the shuttle on the way to Mr. Universe's moon.

Inara asks Mal why he didn't ask her to stay after HOG and Mal, not so deftly, avoids answering. Adds a lot more to his answer at the end of the movie.

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AURAPTOR

Sunday, February 15, 2009 2:55 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Katesfriend:
There was an edited out scene before Miranda (I think it's in the preliminary script) where Inara asked Mal what he was going to do about River. Mal replies "I don't know." Inara then says "I don't know isn't an answer!" Hence the play on words as the last scene. It's been a few years since I read the script, but the wordplay between them always stuck with me as a beautiful piece of continuity, even if it didn't make it into the final product.

Yep, that makes a lot of sense. And speaking of the dialogue, it reminds me of something Morena said, i forget where, about the writing of another scene, during the series, between River and Book. It was the 'faith fixes you' line that Morena said she'd never heard before, and I found that to be hard to believe. But then thought....Hey, actors have their own lines to remember, they don't always have time to check out what's going on in other scenes. She commented on how beautiful the writing was for that show, as if she were on the outside, looking in.

I always found that curious and refreshing , at the same time.

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AURAPTOR

Sunday, February 15, 2009 2:57 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by ncbrowncoat:
I do love the deleted scene between Mal and Inara in the shuttle on the way to Mr. Universe's moon.

Inara asks Mal why he didn't ask her to stay after HOG and Mal, not so deftly, avoids answering. Adds a lot more to his answer at the end of the movie.

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I'm gonna have to fire up the DVD again , gorramit !

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. "

VERONIC

Sunday, February 15, 2009 3:18 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by ncbrowncoat:
I do love the deleted scene between Mal and Inara in the shuttle on the way to Mr. Universe's moon.

Inara asks Mal why he didn't ask her to stay after HOG and Mal, not so deftly, avoids answering. Adds a lot more to his answer at the end of the movie.

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ME TOO¡¡¡
Very significant scene

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Tuesday, February 17, 2009 7:29 AM

I had conjured she said she didn't know because she didn't know YET. She hadn't decided, she was willing to hang around and learn more about what Mal was like NOW, and how things would be NOW.

In all our observations, nobody has asked Inara to marry, right? All proposals have been to be a "permanent Companion" or something like that, not a WIFE and not a marriage.
If Mal asked Inara to marry him, I am not convinced she would not be willing to give up Companionship for marriage to Mal, and a life of marriage and spacefaring.

Quote:
Originally posted by veronic:
Am I the only here who wanted Mal/Inara kiss?

Inara last said "I don't know" and Mal replied "Good answer."
I think it was during the panel discussion, Nathan commented upon the lack of Mal/Inara kiss. He ended saying something like he did not want MAL to kiss INARA for the sake of the story, but they should have because he wanted to kiss Morena. Morena replied "Good answer."

BYTEMITE

Wednesday, January 9, 2013 3:31 PM

Well, on the other hand, you don't really want to pair up characters all at once in a story. Kaylee and Simon got together, and anything more than that would have almost been too many romantic subplot resolutions. It starts to get redundant.

This thread was a while ago. Some of my ideas about Mal and Inara have changed since this. I still don't really want to see Inara quit her profession because she wants to be with Mal, that seems out of character for her, though other reasons would be acceptable. Why does she have to be the only one to make a sacrifice? And I still don't know what Inara could do after Miranda if she did quit. Eventually she'd find a job on the ship I'm sure, but it seems like it would have to be a gradual thing.

Inara could stop taking conjugal clients, but otherwise still practice. Or, one of the fun things I've considered, the guild doesn't really have any representation out on the rim, she could be take a job as an actual ambassador for the guild. Like doing charity work, empowering non-guild prostitutes, fighting sex trafficking, talking with the movers of rim world society, and generally trying to make a good impression and improve the public image of the guild and companions out on the rim. Companions seem to be given token respect out on the rim, but there's also kind of a double standard snide leering disrespect underneath that.

SHINYGOODGUY

Thursday, January 10, 2013 4:12 PM

Excellent point. Freedom is key for both Mal and Inara, it's like breathing air for them.

SGG

Quote:
Originally posted by Platonist:
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.

BYTEMITE

Thursday, January 10, 2013 4:28 PM

Exactly. Mal knows he can't keep her locked in a steel grey cage and watch her wither away without her independence, without meaning. He's lived that. So he knows if she leaves he has to let her go.

SHINYGOODGUY

Thursday, January 10, 2013 4:46 PM

Very keen observations Mr. Auraptor. May I add my 2 cents?

1. I believe she was "hit" by several things at once, hence her emotional reaction. For me it's her love for Mal, also her looming death and how, as you rightly put it, she doesn't want to expose Mal to a deep heartbreak once she succumbs. While on Serenity she's filled with joy, but Mal is a constant reminder of what she won't allow herself to have - namely the love of her life. "I don't know" says to me that she's willing to allow the wind to take her on a journey and not try to control everything. As a companion she plans everything. As a passenger and crew member, she's a "leaf on the wind" (as are they all), it is the truth of things and it sets them free.

2. Both she and River are key to the healing process for the remaining crew.
Inara as "mother" (I love how she scolds Jayne and Wash during the kitchen scene in Objects in Space while discussing River's recent behavior. She is Mal's alter ego and commands a certain amount of respect from the crew).

River has a bit of all of them in her. I've thought of the opening sequence in Objects in Space where River walks through Serenity and emotionally connects with the crew. She absorbs some of their characteristics (perhaps doing this subconsciously) and by the BDM she becomes "whole" again.

As for Inara staying on Serenity, I always felt that she would choose to return where she belonged. When I think of it carefully, they all have a deep-seeded connection to the ship, but Mal, Inara and River most especially. Inara needed that time away from Serenity to see how much she needed it and how much it needed her - Serenity as part of the family.

SGG

Quote:
Originally posted by AURaptor:
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.

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. "

BYTEMITE

Thursday, January 10, 2013 5:19 PM

I've also thought part of it might be that Inara saw how Mal reacted to Nandi, he blamed himself and said that he wished he'd never met her. I think Inara might have stayed even after the Nandi thing if Mal hadn't said that.

Quote:
Inara needed that time away from Serenity to see how much she needed it and how much it needed her - Serenity as part of the family.

I would say All of them have their connection to the ship, though arguably Mal, River, Kaylee, Wash, and Inara top the list.

I think Serenity changed Inara's life. Unfortunately, it wasn't a life Inara is sure she can have. So she ran back to her old life, but found she couldn't continue like she had. Then she wasn't satisfied by teaching either.

I's almost like to see Inara go wild, maybe embrace what time she has left.

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