What is 'Blue Sun'?
POSTED BY: rita
UPDATED: Wednesday, February 6, 2013 18:47
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I was a faithful Firefly viewer and i never recall any mention of anything called blue sun but i keep reading about it here on this website could someone please tell me what it is
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1. It's a company that makes at least food products (and has T-shirts, a la Coca Cola, like the one Jayne wears). There was a Blue Sun soft drink ad on the video phone in "Ariel" (done by the weblogger from the Official Site). There was a Blue Sun poster on Persephone in "Serenity." Allegedly the food cans in "Shindig" that River messes with were Blue Sun.
2. Joss said in a video on the Official Site that Blue Sun is something to keep an eye on as the show (was supposed to have) progressed.
3. The Blue Glove Men might work for Blue Sun, but that connection hasn't been explored in the show yet.
Hope that helps.
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As near as we can figure, Blue Sun is a megacorporation that makes all kinds of stuff, including a soft drink and various food products in the Firefly Universe. For some reason, River has a particular dislike to them, possibly related to the tortures she suffered at the hands of the Blue Hand Crew. See Ariel and note what logo is on Jaynes t-shirt.
"Wash, where is my damn spaceship?"
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Hmm, so the Blue Hand guys are (possibly) connected with the giant corporation Blue Sun? That might mean that River's school was run by Blue Sun or is jointly owned by Blue Sun and the Alliance. A question: Why do the Blue Hand fellows kill practically everyone they meet with that wierd wand of death? Is there some sort of bizarre and sadistic reason for this? Maybe they're a bunch of particularly ticked-off CEOs. ;) Does anybody know the answer to this question, or have a theory on it? Also, here's the number one reason you can't trust Blue Sun: their initials are "B.S." Pretty appropriate, huh?
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From what we have seen, Blue Sun seems to be an omnipresent corporation with tentacles into several different areas. Their logo pops up in almost every show. I suspect that they may be somehow connected with the government - what us Canucks might call a "Crown Corporation." Additionally each time River seems to totally loose it and babble semi-incoherently, there is some connection to Blue Sun.
But here is another element, that relates to the origin of the name. The Firefly solar system has "hundreds of new earths" that "were terraformed and colonized." We know that many of those "earths" are not planets, but moons around much larger planets.
Some have wondered how hundreds of worlds could exist in the human habitable zone of a solar system. Then someone suggested that this new solar system did not have to be around a yellow star like our own. It could be a system with a blue giant star - IE a Blue Sun!
As to the question about why the blue handed men kill people. I suspect that their mind altering "school" is so super top secret they want to prevent any chance of a leak. Or could it be that exposure to River has some lasting side effect that they want to neutralized?
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"Why do the Blue Hand fellows kill practically everyone they meet with that wierd wand of death?"
This has bugged me too. They wiped out an ENTIRE security detail for a major Alliance hospital. For simply talking to River. Hmmm...
We know they messed with her mind, that she was smart beforehand, and is now a reader. Trying to eliminate the backwash that any mindreading might cause? That might contaminate their experiment? I don't know. Insufficient data as to motives. But it does put the entire Serenity crew, passengers and subcontractors under sentence of death.
"Wash, where is my damn spaceship?"
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"I suspect that their mind altering "school" is so super top secret they want to prevent any chance of a leak."
The problem with that is that mass homicides are not a good way of keeping a project secret. People ending up dead, whether the bodies are discovered or not, usually gets noticed. An entire security shift? These guys did not look or act like loose kill crazies. They were pretty professional for a bunch of stone cold murderers.
"Or could it be that exposure to River has some lasting side effect that they want to neutralized?"
That is all I can come up with too. What would having your mind read do to you? I ain't so sure it would give you mind reading abilities as well, nor that they would kill you if it did. Heck, recruit them if all ya want is mind readers.
"Wash, where is my damn spaceship?"
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Originally posted by Drakon:
"I suspect that their mind altering "school" is so super top secret they want to prevent any chance of a leak."
The problem with that is that mass homicides are not a good way of keeping a project secret. People ending up dead, whether the bodies are discovered or not, usually gets noticed. An entire security shift? These guys did not look or act like loose kill crazies. They were pretty professional for a bunch of stone cold murderers.
My thinking is that the 'Blue Hand' chaps are saying that River killed everyone, which would provide more fuel to the warrant out for her arrest and would provide good cover for them hunting her and putting out a huge reward for her capture.
After all, who's left around to disagree...
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Quote:
Originally posted by Drakon:
"Or could it be that exposure to River has some lasting side effect that they want to neutralized?"
That is all I can come up with too. What would having your mind read do to you? I ain't so sure it would give you mind reading abilities as well, nor that they would kill you if it did. Heck, recruit them if all ya want is mind readers.
Didn't the Blue Hand guys only get concerned when they found out the Security captain talked to River? If they weren't too concerned until they found out he had talked to them, then just being around her and possibly having your mind read by her doesn't seem like a problem. The BH guys might have only killed the security detail because they assumed River might have told them something.
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