Inara's syringe: What's the big mystery?
POSTED BY: DigificWriter
UPDATED: Tuesday, July 6, 2004 19:13
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Has anyone else considered the possibility that Joss, or at least someone involved in the production, reads a lot of the Firefly message board speculations, and that even if it was originally intended that Inara was dying, or she was actually much older than we think, or whatever, that he might rethink his ideas and come up with something entirely different just to surprise us?
Was that a long run-on sentence, or what?
wo men ren ran zai fei xing.
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Originally posted by ecgordon:
Has anyone else considered the possibility that Joss, or at least someone involved in the production, reads a lot of the Firefly message board speculations
Not if they've got any sense. Except for Purplebelly's Denouement, of course.
BTW, by the end of Serenity, all the crew are dead; there will be a fresh cast for each sequel
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Long-time lurker, first-time poster. Arrgh.
Whatever the answer to this (thus far) 42-post riddle is, it can at least be noted that Joss must be sitting back and smiling while (if he is) reading this. Much conversation about what appears to be a minor plot point - the kind of plot points he likes to exlpoit to maximum effectiveness.
As for my opinion, it's definitely not the "drug makes Inara all badass" theory. Someone earlier mentioned the level of realism in Firefly. Interesting to note that the two shows he created in modern-day settings dealt in each episode with the unbelievable, while his show based 500 years in the future feels more natural. Hence, the "suicide syringe" theory or the "terminal illness" theory seem more plausible.
Or it could be something we haven't considered yet. Personally, I hope to be surprised.
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My thoughts are that Inara is repressed or inhibited of sexual pleasure (or some emotion), the entire "ritual" is all an act, giving the client maximum result and minimizing any sort of attachment that the companion might have to her client. In other words, she's normally doesn't "feel".
(I'm not sure if it's just sexually or anything else, sort of like the citizens of libreia in Equalibrium but not entirely stripped from emotions.)
The reason why she might have pulled out the serium is because she wanted to feel the joys of becoming one with someone(mal) for once before she dies?!
Also, the first time we see Inara, there was a cut away shot showing her looking down with a sad face while she was talking to the client with a smile. (in the pilot) She's not happy inside as she should be, which mean the entire companionship soul seeking thing might be just a load of crap, I think that the syringe has something to do with that. We know Joss doesn't just drop random hints, so I'm sure the two are past related.
This also might explain something about safron, who knows... It could be that the Academy is secretly ploting something through the works of companions? Inara found out about it and she was exiled? maybe it all traces back to blue sun?
who knows...
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Maybe it's Simon's "seven percent solution" that he trusted her to keep (and keep away from him) and she's trying to figure out if the situation is bad enough to give it back to him.
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