Theory on Inara's Needle Box Thingy

POSTED BY: geordiesteve2003
UPDATED: Thursday, February 26, 2004 18:48
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GEORDIESTEVE2003

Tuesday, February 24, 2004 12:00 AM

I've gone over it a bit in random moments and read some of the theories on here about her being very old, or its some kind of drug and she is an addict, but what if we are all looking way too much into this for once. I could very well be proven wrong and I know Joss layers stuff in his shows and reveals small pieces at a time, which I do love about his style, but what if this is just a plain simple thing that we all turned into something major.

So, in Serenity, the Reavers are coming and we know they...do thing to people, and we know Inara doesnt want to die, my first theory was it was a drug to simulate a state of death in the hopes that they would leave her alone, but I've gone off that one. What if, quite simply, its something she uses anyway as part of her work, something to keep her able to work....something we have so many varieties of nowadays including ones in different colours in foil packets. Everyone with me?? What if its just a contraceptive. She might survive, but doesnt want to carry anything from a Reaver to term, the scum of humanity and the known galaxy. Simplistic, but could be right. Hmmmm.

VENA

Tuesday, February 24, 2004 12:27 AM

Is this a new spin I hear?

Yes, I think it is!

Very good.

This will take thought.

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SUCCATASH

Tuesday, February 24, 2004 12:30 AM

If it was just a simple contraceptive, why did Inara hesitate and look reluctant to take it?

Negative side effects don't seem likely. But maybe she grew sad remembering the baby she had to abort, or the child she may have been forced to abandon.

SHINY

Tuesday, February 24, 2004 12:37 AM

I also don't think a simple contraceptive would be worthy of Joss mentioning it as "having something more interesting planned...something I was laying in for later" in the commentary. It would hardly be interesting or mysterious to warrant a story arc about...

RIVER
Purple elephants are flying.
MAL
Good. Thanks for the update.

VENA

Tuesday, February 24, 2004 6:44 AM

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Originally posted by Shiny:
I also don't think a simple contraceptive would be worthy of Joss mentioning it as "having something more interesting planned...something I was laying in for later" in the commentary. It would hardly be interesting or mysterious to warrant a story arc about...

What is more likely to stir up a little mayhem than a pregnant Companion? Joss can, and does, turn the most mundane happenings into full blown, all out catastrophes. Look what a simple pregnancy did to Angel.

Now I know. What is simple about a pregnant vampire… but in the end the driving force behind an entire season was this one little baby.

Joss can take anything and run with it in directions that you would never have thought existed. In the end, it is the exceptionally simple things that move his drama.

Inara with a kid or her abandoned kid might just, maybe, prove to be that kind of simple drama, or hiccup in the road, to get the ball rolling.

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SUCCATASH

Tuesday, February 24, 2004 8:38 AM

Posted by Vena

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Inara with a kid or her abandoned kid might just, maybe, prove to be that kind of simple drama, or hiccup in the road, to get the ball rolling.

It probably would have been the cliffhanger episode of Season One, if Firefly had stayed on the air.

I can see it now:

Inara shuttles to some moon to service a young client. But after she gets naked he says, "No, don't do that. I'm your son. This is all a setup so we can finally speak. My father doesn't know I'm here."

KNIBBLET

Tuesday, February 24, 2004 3:15 PM

I don't think it's a contraceptive because Inara would have no reason to believe she would even survive a reaver assault. She would in fact, pray that they killed her before they peeled her skin off or used her teeth to make new keys for their reaver pipe organ. Whatever they'd do to her, no zygote would survive it.

I'm guessing it's not an illegal drug because her yearly exam would pick that up and she'd be toast. Therefore, although I don't know what is lurking in that needle, I'm assuming it's something medically acceptable.

There are people who think that Inara's on the run from something or somebody. That doesn't hold it's weight. She's very well known out in the black. Everyone knows what ship she's on and anyone willing to get her would have their own version of Early if it came down to it.

That doesn't mean that the needle doesn't hold something very valuable to someone very important. They might not know that Inara has it. She might have looked at that needle thinking, "If it weren't for you, I'd be in Capital City having lunch at a restaurant with hot and cold running babes."

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HELL'S KITTEN

Tuesday, February 24, 2004 4:18 PM

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Originally posted by geordiesteve2003:
What if its just a contraceptive. She might survive, but doesnt want to carry anything from a Reaver to term, the scum of humanity and the known galaxy. Simplistic, but could be right. Hmmmm.

Considering the context of the whole thing, I think it's probably a lot more nefarious than just a contraceptive or even a narcotic. (For some of the reasons already stated.)

I guess it's generally accepted that Reavers don't leave survivors. There are a lot worse things than death...such as being skinned, eaten and raped just prior to dying, as has been said. The last thing I'd want to do is play dead just to wake up inside-out. Not that you would wake up from that...but you get the idea.

I'd lay good odds that it's like a suicide pill for those special, no-way-out, worse-fate-than-just-death occassions.

SHINY

Tuesday, February 24, 2004 6:24 PM

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Originally posted by Hell's Kitten:
I'd lay good odds that it's like a suicide pill for those special, no-way-out, worse-fate-than-just-death occassions.

Except that Joss explicitly said it wasn't a 'suicide kit' (despite everyone believing that's what it was) in the commentary to Serenity.

RIVER
Purple elephants are flying.
MAL
Good. Thanks for the update.

NOOCYTE

Tuesday, February 24, 2004 6:56 PM

You know, I would in no way put it past Joss to be yanking our chains on this one. My belief is that it was a suicide shot, and that Joss was laying a bit of mischievous misdirection on us (and Nathan played along with his "She's a junkie" quip).

Some really intriguing theories put forth here, but I really just think whe was thinking of snuffing it rather than become Reaver sashimi.

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