Inara's Injection!
POSTED BY: Spookyjesus
UPDATED: Sunday, March 23, 2008 23:39
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Originally posted by Zeek:
See I don't feel that they're crazy. They're just overly aggressive. They want what they want and they want it now. They enjoy hunting, killing, having sex and displaying their dominance.
If they were totally crazy why did they care once Mal shot the guy from the bank. You'd think at the least they'd still eat that guy if they were nuts. They just stopped once he was dead. No more thrill of the hunt or kill. They didn't sew his skin into their clothes because they didn't kill him. He wasn't a trophy.
So, when they capture Inara I would think they would still recognize her as a desirable female and want to show their dominance by claiming her as their own.
I also can't imagine they're totally crazy because they still manage to fly their ships. They must have enough control to understand and manipulate complicated machinery. That says something about them at least.
Wait, how is that not crazy?
"We may experience some slight turbulence, and then... explode."
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1. In the commentary, Joss says that the needle isn't a suicide kit but that it works to create that impression in the episode.
2. I do include this very idea in my one and only fan fic:
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3. The companion assassin idea is excellent, and ties in with Nandi wondering why Inara suddenly bailed on the core and Inara's admission that she supported the Alliance during the war.
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Originally posted by micjwelch:
Wait, how is that not crazy?
They still have goals and ambitions. Just because they don't have the same value system as you and me doesn't mean they're crazy. I view reavers as more animal than regular humans but still more human than animals.
They act on their more basic urges but like LeopardFlan said they don't attack each other. So, they can control themselves. If they aren't out of control then I don't call them crazy.
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Originally posted by Spookyjesus:
Sorry if this has been brought up all ready (I haven't logged in in a while.....)
BUT
I just got Tim Minears screenwriting Expo DVD and on it he talks about the Firefly story he never got around to telling -
Inara gets kidnapped by Reavers but she takes something that makes anyone who has sex with her die and when Mal and co find her all the Reaver's around her are dead!
The "something" must be the injection!
One more mystery solved.......
Some folks knew about this - Morena mentioned the syringe in an episode of Firefly Talk
(copied from the Firefly Talk main page at http://fireflytalk.libsyn.com/)
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Firefly Talk #38, September 23rd 2006
A super-sized episode (since y'all have been so patient!) including an article about prop collecting, news from NASA about Firefly DVDs heading to orbit, a revelation from Morena about just what that syringe was for (don't tell Joss), plus lots more!
Still, I would have LOVED to have seen the episode where that was revealed!
MAL "You only gotta scare him."
JAYNE "Pain is scary..."
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it could have been a toxin that made her whole body poisonous, ala yosaffbridge's kiss with mal. that way she wouldn't have been raped... as much.
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