Blue Sun in episode 'Safe'

POSTED BY: Deerswiper
UPDATED: Friday, July 28, 2006 23:43
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DEERSWIPER

Tuesday, June 6, 2006 1:21 AM

In the episode 'Safe,' is River really taking the labels of cans with the 'Blue Sun' logo? Because I've just gone through that scene frame-by-frame, and the only interestingly-marked cans (with blue markings on the tops) are the ones she doesn't take labels off. Is there an original (reliable) source for the 'Blue Sun' thing?

Could it just be the colour blue?

PHOENIXROSE

Wednesday, June 7, 2006 6:52 AM

I thought it was "Shindig".
Anyway, I never saw the logo on the cans themselves, but zooming in on the scene, you can see it on the box of crackers she dumps out. There were chinese characters on the can labels, but I'm not good enough to recognize whether they said "blue sun" or not. The blue-marked cans didn't have the logo at all; the blue markings were something else. I can't remember when I first heard that scene was about Blue Sun; I want to say it was a commentary or similar.

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SPACEANJL

Wednesday, June 7, 2006 10:12 AM

Yeah, they are all Blue Sun goodies. So is the t-shirt Jayne happens to be in when she goes slice'n'dice in 'Ariel'. Pretty sure the characters on the tins are the same ones in the Firefly Chinese translations.

SpaceAnJL

ASORTAFAIRYTALE

Sunday, July 23, 2006 12:47 AM

It's not actually on the cans, but if you look on the box that she dumps some stuff out of, you can see the blue sun logo on it.

PIZ

Sunday, July 23, 2006 12:56 AM

I always found it funny that some of the cans have present-day "Nutrition Information" labels visible on them. A minor oversight, I'm sure, but humorous.

[[]EDIT[]] And it is Shindig, when the card game is happening while Mal is at the ball.

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ASARIAN

Friday, July 28, 2006 3:39 PM

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Originally posted by Deerswiper:

In the episode 'Safe,' is River really taking the labels of cans with the 'Blue Sun' logo? Because I've just gone through that scene frame-by-frame, and the only interestingly-marked cans (with blue markings on the tops) are the ones she doesn't take labels off. Is there an original (reliable) source for the 'Blue Sun' thing?

Could it just be the colour blue?

Shindig, rather; but who's countin'? :)

As you can tell from the still (I enhanced the brightness a bit), there's no Blue Sun logo on the cans (that we can see). But I think the blue color, being similar to that of the Blue Sun logo, triggered her nonetheless.

There's two (three?) cans of "Peach halves" in the drawer, also without the logo. The Blue Sun logo starts prominently on the cracker boxes; but as you can tell, upon closer examination, these labels are actually stickers, put on them manually.

He, I better stop staring at this; or ere long I'll find myself seeing a dancing girl in those cans again. :)

P.S. I just noticed: there's no label on the can in the upper right corner; hmmm, seems there was one mystery meal already present. :)

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MISSTRESSAHARA

Friday, July 28, 2006 11:43 PM

Actually on the tops of the cans on the right they look like Blue Sun if you look closely. And I think the chinese on the label is Blue Sun. But unfortunately the commentary doesn't have any mention because most of the time they were talking about costumes.

In the voice of the comic book guy: Worst-Commentary-Ever.

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