Blue Hand dudes, wandy things, and the Blue Sun Corp.
POSTED BY: chael
UPDATED: Monday, January 12, 2004 14:12
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Originally posted by chael:
I re-watched Arial today, and I've been thinking about the whole Blue Sun thing, and the relationship between it and River and the Blue Hand Dudes...
...I seem to recall some discussion about why the Blue Hands aren't bothered by the wandy things that make with the bloody violence, but I don't remember any specific theories, outside of the typical "brain frequencies" or that the wands were brainwave amplifiers that helped broadcast the malicious killer thoughts of the BHDs...
The one area where this theory seems weakest is how River knows the Blue Hands arrive on Ariel. It doesn't seem to fit that she'd be able to read them, as it stands to reason Blue Hand agents wouldn't consume the products. But I've decided that it's quite possible she was reading OTHER peoples' thoughts about the BHDs showing up, and just knew who was there that way.
And I always thought they were training her to BE one of the Blue Hands (or Blue Hands 2.0), which would explain why she could sense them.
Joss leaves himself openings with all his characters, leaving much of their histories blank, so he can fill them in later. Looking at the posts here at FFFans, its clear thisis the most popular storyline we'd liketo see explored in the movie.
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I like the way you think. I would be a nice twist compared to most things. I am curious as to why they have blue hands :P. Now River HARDLY ever seems to really do anything without a purpose... most of the time. Tearing the labels off the cans would make sense in a way.
The unification war also makes sense. What drives most countries. The corpations that hire its cizterns, creates their goods and services. Now I don't know most of the background story as TO WHY their was a unification war. My take is basicly tied very closely into The American Civil War. The Indepents were just a handful of planets (colonies) that wanted to be by themselves.
Now at first they were, but once the older settled worlds finally were up and running, they must have said Lets go after these Indepents. They don't want to be part of us.
Now there is no OTHER reason that can most likely be seen as to why. Slaverly is legaly as is indentured servents, but that could have been reasons why the Indepents were indepent. They must not have liked slaverly, their people were more or less PUT down on those worlds (The Message), and the way Blue Sun Monolopized everything (just a hunch :P)
Your idea could be very easily tied into this one (or actually I should say mine into yours :p hehehehe.)
This is why I like FireFly So much intrigue so much to explore
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I am not really buying the Blue Sun cola as a mind control device, or a catalyst to a melt down if someone produces a blue wand.
I think the wand is some sort of generator, not really sure what it does, but if someone were to make a device that could kill someone in such a grotesque and painful way, seems to me the same people would make something to protect themselves from the effects of such a device.
I am thinking that the Blue Hands (which look to be rubber gloves of some sort RedKommie) are some sort of R & D guys for the Alliance. I am wondering if Blue Sun bankrolls the Blue Hands, or if River just dislikes the color blue because it reminds her of the Blue Hands.
It is apparent that whatever tampering w/ River's brain Simon discovered in "Ariel" was caused by the Blue Hands. The result is her ability to sometime read minds like the girl in "Safe", her precognitive insight when she says "fire" in "Out of Gas", her uncanny ability w/ the pistol in "War Stories", and many other examples.
I think that the Blue Hands have somehow supercharged her brain, giving her access to more of her mind than the average person has at any time. It could be that so much ability all at once is more than she knows how to deal with at points. She is almost childlike at times in how she perceives things and interacts with others.
"May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."
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