Blue Sun

POSTED BY: Sliderocity
UPDATED: Wednesday, January 4, 2006 06:09
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SLIDEROCITY

Sunday, January 1, 2006 11:36 PM

I got the complete series + Serenity for Christmas, and I blew through them in near no time at all, and I absolutely loved them. Anyway, I looked for a great fan site, and this seems like it's just that. I have a question though: What's this whole Blue Sun thing? I don't remember seeing anything related to that in the series or movie. Thanks.

SERENYTY

Sunday, January 1, 2006 11:42 PM

In the commentaries, we hear about the Blue Sun group. In the series' and even the movie, there are ads EVERYWHERE for Blue Sun. Joss described it as "Coca-Cola, Microsoft, and other big companies all in one". It puts out a lot of products.

We never saw all of it, but it could have turned into a big storyline. We suspect it has something to do with the blue hands people...

~A message from Serenyty~

SLIDEROCITY

Sunday, January 1, 2006 11:48 PM

Thanks. I'm going to have to rewatch the series now, which I planned to do anyway, and partake in the commentaries this time around.

FEANOR

Sunday, January 1, 2006 11:54 PM

Thanks.. I was looking everywhere for this answer too. When in doubt, check the message boards

Feanor - still learning

CHRISTHECYNIC

Sunday, January 1, 2006 11:59 PM

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Originally posted by Sliderocity:
Thanks. I'm going to have to rewatch the series now, which I planned to do anyway, and partake in the commentaries this time around.

You'll see ads in the background and even the foreground all the time now that you know to look. Also when River is tearing the labels off of cans of food those are Blue Sun labels.

AURAPTOR

Monday, January 2, 2006 1:10 AM

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Originally posted by Sliderocity:
I got the complete series + Serenity for Christmas, and I blew through them in near no time at all, and I absolutely loved them. Anyway, I looked for a great fan site, and this seems like it's just that. I have a question though: What's this whole Blue Sun thing? I don't remember seeing anything related to that in the series or movie. Thanks.

Also, look for the BlueSun logo on all sorts of things. The crybaby in the pilot episode, and on Jayne's shirt, when River takes a knife to him and says " he looks better in red "

" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "

EMBERS

Monday, January 2, 2006 1:11 AM

you might particularly note,
at the beginning of 'Ariel' when River slashes that knife at Jayne...
she cuts just deep enough to ruin his Blue Sun shirt
(they kind of shoot the scene so you hardly even notice that that is what he is wearing),
and she says 'he looks better in red'

it has been speculated that the Blue Sun corporation might have been behind the experiments done on River

and when she tore lables off of cans it might have been to remove the Blue Sun logo...

but Joss never got a chance to develop this particular plot thread
(I'm still hoping for it in the sequel, as well as Book's backstory, and Inara's reasons for heading out to the rim, and and and)

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SERENYTY

Monday, January 2, 2006 3:02 PM

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Quote:
Originally posted by Sliderocity:
I got the complete series + Serenity for Christmas, and I blew through them in near no time at all, and I absolutely loved them. Anyway, I looked for a great fan site, and this seems like it's just that. I have a question though: What's this whole Blue Sun thing? I don't remember seeing anything related to that in the series or movie. Thanks.

Also, look for the BlueSun logo on all sorts of things. The crybaby in the pilot episode, and on Jayne's shirt, when River takes a knife to him and says " he looks better in red "

And on the posters/ads everywhere. In the movie, it's on the bottle of drink of some sort that Jayne drinks out of then passes to Simon.

~A message from Serenyty~

AURAPTOR

Monday, January 2, 2006 5:02 PM

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And on the posters/ads everywhere. In the movie, it's on the bottle of drink of some sort that Jayne drinks out of then passes to Simon.

~A message from Serenyty~

Don't ya just love how Jayne is always touching, grabing , holding, somethin in EVERY scene? As for the BlueSun bottle, I gotta think that it's some sort of liquor, after what they had just seen. ( Not that Jayne would need an excuse )

" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "

ZISKER

Monday, January 2, 2006 6:38 PM

There's also some good stuff in the RPG Book (yes, dammit, I'm a geek) about Blue Sun - to be fair, I don't know how much of it came directly from the show's unrevealed backstory (although there is a planetary history that includes elements of Dead or Alive, so I'll take it as canon until something on screen comes along).

Anyway: Blue Sun holds "the monopoly on packaged foodstuffs" and "engages in deadly corporate espionage and then calls in favors from powerful government officials to cover their tracks" (202). Of product quality: "While not the best on the market, Blue Sun products are the most reliable. If you buy Blue Sun, you always know what you're going to get. There are never any surprises - good, bad, or otherwise" (202) which pretty much sums up and mass produced corporate product that characterizes the American market these days.

It's also interesting to note that Blue Sun has recently built a new coroporate complex on Osiris (the Tam's home-planet) after moving from Sihnon though they apparently have outposts all over the 'Verse.

*cough* Sorry, I like books and history too much.

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and is widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams

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