Why Not Magistrate Higgins?
POSTED BY: Jongsstraw
UPDATED: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 23:54
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Inara can be somewhat bawdy and common in her own right. When Mal once asks her about Simon being in her shuttle she says she was giving the boy a free thrust. Wow, that's a tad earthy. Also, she teases Jayne at the dinner table about her funny and sexy stories, saying that he has "no idea". Well if a lech like Jayne has no idea, then who possibly could? Then there's her description of the girls at Nandi's place....she calls them whores, and the only reason according to her is because they're not in the Guild, no other judgement is made. Inara seems to contract with the young, in-experienced types which is perhaps like benign educational therapy for them of a sort, but cannot possibly be totally satisfying for her. It's reasonable to imagine that she must occasionally want something more wild and passionate.
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I think Inara summed it up nicely that time she was combing Kaylee’s hair.
“ A companion chooses their clients carefully. It’s guild law!”
Maybe not word for word, but something like that. Also when it shows Inara making choices from her monitor before attending the dance on Persephone she seems to be screening her clients rather well. She went to the ball with Atherton Wing because he’d been nice enough to her before. There was a feeling of trust there. It might be hard to tell whether an individual is flawed, even in the future. Leave it to Mal Reynolds( with his own set of flaws) to bring the truth out about Mr. Wing.
I’m sure that Inara has had several clients that were impressive to her, impressive but not interesting. Mal is a mystery. She tells this to Shepherd Book in the Serenity pilot.
I’m sure that future episodes would have fleshed out the companions character very well.
Z
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Oh, I agree with you, Jongsstraw, Inara has an edgy side to her, no doubt, but I think maybe it's Mal she is looking to satisfy that yearning for rawness and passion and not the clients she contracts with because it’s all about the client in those situations and not really her needs, unless she senses that it’s important to the client that she be satisfied and that’s when she needs to call on Mal's help, as we see her thoughts in Better Days, while she is hard at work;)
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Inara does have layers, and considering her ride, she does seem surprisingly unpretentious about her profession. Especially when she's trying to irritate Mal. Except when she's DEFENDING it to Mal.
Aren't those two kids just crazy? Anyway.
In regards to Jayne from Out of Gas, she was just taking a cheap shot for him being crude and dirty-minded. Which probably went over his head, and he was just disappointed. I have trouble believing that she hasn't told Kaylee some of her more salacious stories, but Jayne's method of asking, plus dinner table, didn't make her that inclined to share.
That, and imagine Inara trying to explain to Jayne that "cleet or what" is not an either/or statement. *face palm*
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I also noticed Inara being with young men. Before Atherton's wave, Inara was listening to a message from a young and obvious inexperienced man. I get the idea she chooses them to give them confidence as they explore their sexuallity. She does more then toss around in bed with these young men, but spends time building their egos. This may be how she sees herself different from just being a whore. She also satisfies herself. Her choice of the female partner seems more to satisfy her own urges then that of her partner. But in doing so she again gives reasurance to her partner that she was choosen because of her qualities. When they leave Inara's bed a person is typically made to feel good about themselves. As for Atherton, Inara was blind to his true self. Either he kept his selfimportant attitude a secret or she simply refused to see it in hopes of a more secure future. Compare what Atherton was offering, as opposed to the shuttle Inara was leasing from Mal. She gave up a lot when she walked off with poor bleeding Mal and not the spoilded child, Atherton.
So Higgens had no chance. His personality was out there for Inara to see. He needed no service Inara was trained to supply.
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Perhaps we have forgotten the beginning of TTJ when Inara explains to Kaylee that she chooses her clients. I have no reason to think she was lying to Fess, I think by the time she met Fess she had already been thoroughly put off by pops, and had made no secret of putting him in his place. She probably already knew about dad before making her appointment, and that factor may have contributed to her selection of Fess for her services. She would have rather sat parked on Serenity than service dad.
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o_0 @ this thread.
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But just because of what Inara is, she (and her profession) gets attacked like this? I call foul.
To paraphrase Mal:
I might respect Inara, but I don't respect the profession.
She might go along with the concept of the "honorable Companion",
but I don't feel that is any more possible than an "honorable drug-dealer".
While some good can come out of anything,
I feel the sex-trade de-values human relationships by a vast majority.
Just my take,
Mike
You are revealing your baser viewpoint, and putting it quite crudely.
Does your wife give you massages? If so, is she the most expert masseusse in the world? Or would a world-class multi-style trained expert be capable of performing a better job? Would you deny yourself the experience, and the physical relief, just to satisfy your delusion that it might be a facet of unfaithfulness? What if your wife did not provide massages, would you still deprive yourself of the services of an expert masseusse?
I don't see anybody assuming they are buying a relationship with Inara, they all seem to be quite clear on the subject, and even inquiries exploring the subject are floated tentatively, knowing she has the superior position, she has the power on the field, and in the exchange.
She is selling a service, one which very few humans can truly excel at.
I just realised that a topic like this is why I really enjoyed Morena's role on that Vegas show (?Sin City?) where she played one of the wives of a Middle East Prince. Would a Prince be unfaithful to all the members of his Harem if he bedded Inara?
Part of the use of SciFi storytelling is to provide moral tales without the baggage of labels like intolerance or racist, and you have failed to understand this exploration of cultural tolerance.
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Interesting discussion.
As George Carlin pointed out, it's absurd make sex for money illegal when it's perfectly legal to give it away for free.
As River would say, it's the Alliance being "meddlesome"...or as Mal would say, the Alliance meddling with some and ignoring others as it pleases.
If a woman's body is her property, she should be able to dispose of it as she wills. That is the most basic of human rights. Whether or not selling sex is essentially degrading is really nobody's business but the adults voluntarily engaging in that activity. I find it especially odd that feminists would come down on women doing what they want with their own body. Perhaps it's because they're doing it with *men.*
In Victorian times whore houses were common throughout the U.S. as was the free sale and use of cocaine, opium and marijuana, and believe it or not, society didn't fall apart because of it. Indeed, I suspect that making such outlets illegal, forcing them into the realm of criminal elements, has led to many of the corresponding social ills we have today.
Whatever became of personal Liberty?
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