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Inara's phial

POSTED BY: WYTCHCROFT
UPDATED: Friday, October 26, 2007 21:45
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Tuesday, October 16, 2007 9:11 PM

WYTCHCROFT


thread continued (coz damned if i can find it!) anyhoo...

http://www.whedonesque.com today
samples an interview with Joss where he states that Kate in Angel was oroiginally to be a 'drug addicted whore'...

interesting...

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Tuesday, October 16, 2007 9:26 PM

AGENTROUKA


I think I read somewhere that Inara, very early, was supposed to be a more rough-and-tumble actual whore, and a drug addiction might have played into that version.

We know Joss likes his "types".

I do, however, think that it no longer fits with the character Inara as she was eventually created.

She has enough complex issues that arise from what we've already seen and a drug addiction would just seems tacked on. It would, if anything, give a bland, trite reason for behaviors that would be more interesting if they were merely psychological.

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Tuesday, October 16, 2007 9:31 PM

WYTCHCROFT


Quote:

Originally posted by AgentRouka:
I think I read somewhere that Inara, very early, was supposed to be a more rough-and-tumble actual whore, and a drug addiction might have played into that version.



oh wow - like Nandi? maybe HAerts of Gold was originallly helping Inara directly - ooh speculation!


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Inara has enough complex issues that arise from what we've already seen and a drug addiction would just seems tacked on. It would, if anything, give a bland, trite reason for behaviors that would be more interesting if they were merely psychological.


i pretty much agree - i wonder if she was SICK?
we only have her word that the examination she had was 'routine'...

but that too could veer off to a predictable place i guess...

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Tuesday, October 16, 2007 10:06 PM

AGENTROUKA


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Originally posted by wytchcroft:
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Originally posted by AgentRouka:
I think I read somewhere that Inara, very early, was supposed to be a more rough-and-tumble actual whore, and a drug addiction might have played into that version.



oh wow - like Nandi? maybe HAerts of Gold was originallly helping Inara directly - ooh speculation!



Interesting point!

It's uncertain what came first, Inara's relationship to Mal, or her character's concept, so we can't know whether HoG would have happened at all.

It does, after all, have a very specific purpose with regard to the relationship between the characters as they are now.

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Inara has enough complex issues that arise from what we've already seen and a drug addiction would just seems tacked on. It would, if anything, give a bland, trite reason for behaviors that would be more interesting if they were merely psychological.


i pretty much agree - i wonder if she was SICK?
we only have her word that the examination she had was 'routine'...

but that too could veer off to a predictable place i guess...



Yeah.

Plus, we did got one possible answer (for all its ridiculous elements): anti-rape poison injection. *thunder/lightning*

No saying, though, that this is what they would have eventually done.

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Tuesday, October 16, 2007 10:24 PM

WYTCHCROFT





Yeah.

Plus, we did got one possible answer (for all its ridiculous elements): anti-rape poison injection. *thunder/lightning*




HA!

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Wednesday, October 24, 2007 11:03 AM

WYTCHCROFT


bumped for them as missed this l'il thread.

as for the phial - maybe it was G-32 paxilon hydrochlorate...?

or monkey glands...

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Wednesday, October 24, 2007 3:03 PM

CHARLOTTE


Glad you bumped this as I'm still confused about her needle. I've read in numerous places that Tim Minnear stated that Inara's needle was some type of poison that she injects and whoever had sex with her dies. He cited a script idea with Reavers and Inara saving the crew this way.

However, on page 11 of the Firefly Official Companion Vol. 2, the man himself, Joss, says, when asked directly about the needle, "One of the things that I'm still going to keep for myself."

What gives?

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Wednesday, October 24, 2007 4:03 PM

DARKJESTER


For those who want to know about the vial, how about listening to Morena tell us about it?

Firefly Talk, episode 38 - http://fireflytalk.libsyn.com/

MAL "You only gotta scare him."
JAYNE "Pain is scary..."

http://www.fireflytalk.com - Big Damn Podcast

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Friday, October 26, 2007 9:45 PM

WYTCHCROFT


bumped back to its mama!

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