What Episode What Blue Sun Mentioned?

POSTED BY: DarkHood
UPDATED: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 04:12
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DARKHOOD

Saturday, May 8, 2004 1:21 PM

Blue Sun is all over the site but i can't remember seeing it on the show.

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GREGGALLINSON

Saturday, May 8, 2004 1:48 PM

In the pilot, you can see a Blue Sun logo on Persephone. Jayne is wearing a Blue Sun T-shirt in another episode (don't remember which off-hand...sorry). I think there were more times it popped up, but I can't remember any off-hand. I also don't recal it being mentioned in any dialogue- it was just an omnipresent advertising logo.

SPOOKYJESUS

Saturday, May 8, 2004 1:51 PM

It was one of those things Joss was building in slowly - so all we got so far was the logos in the background.

They're the corporate arm of the alliance - one of these evil multi-national type companies, like how McDonalds burn down the rainforrest to raise cattle on - that kind of buzz

ECGORDON

Saturday, May 8, 2004 2:17 PM

Without going back and rewatching all the discs again (and we know what a chore that will be ) I'll venture to say there is a Blue Sun reference in at least every other episode. Here's a few I recall off the top of my head: there are signs in the background in "Serenity," Jayne wore the Blue Sun shirt several times, most prominently in the teaser of "Ariel," and in "Shindig" the logo is on the canned goods River tears the labels off of. Blue Sun commercials are also running on the video screens at the space station in "The Message."

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AURAPTOR

Saturday, May 8, 2004 2:28 PM

I didn't know how often Blue Sun logos were shown on screen, but after someone on here brought it up..wow! Go back and re watch ( Yes, I know. It's a tough job, but ya gotta do it - ) Serenity, and look in the back ground....everywhere you'll see Blue Sun posters and logos. It really is shiny how Joss was laying down the foundation for...who knows what.

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GUNRUNNER

Saturday, May 8, 2004 4:02 PM

I think you guys forgot a few

In Bushwhacked Jayne has his Blue Sun shirt on as well.

The billboards and TV Phones in Ariel have Blue Sun ads. As do the billboards and scrolling marques on the space station in The Message.

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LEMAT

Saturday, May 8, 2004 4:11 PM

The 'cry baby' in "Serenity" was built around a Blue Sun coffee can.

Jon

EMBERS

Saturday, May 8, 2004 4:53 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by LeMat:
The 'cry baby' in "Serenity" was built around a Blue Sun coffee can.

Jon

Cool, I didn't even notice that one...and I've been looking...
It is frequently on billboards in the background,
I think Joss was trying to make it ubiquitous...
like a Coca Cola sign...
something you don't even notice.

I hadn't noticed that that was the t-shirt Jayne was wearing when River cut him until it was pointed out in fan fic (with the theory that River was cutting the logo...and not the man)...
but Joss was very sneaky in that scene, he shoots most of it so you never get a clear look at the t-shirt at all!

But most important, Joss mentions it in the commentary as being something that was going to start to be part of the story, later...

WHOODAHN

Saturday, May 8, 2004 8:49 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by LeMat:
The 'cry baby' in "Serenity" was built around a Blue Sun coffee can.

Jon

Good catch!
I had missed that one. I'm not sure if it's a coffee can or a 55 gallon drum. It's hard to tell what size it is.

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GUNHAND

Saturday, May 8, 2004 10:00 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by WhooDahn:
Quote:
Originally posted by LeMat:
The 'cry baby' in "Serenity" was built around a Blue Sun coffee can.

Jon

Good catch!
I had missed that one. I'm not sure if it's a coffee can or a 55 gallon drum. It's hard to tell what size it is.

"I ain't crazy and I've got papers to prove it"

I thought it was a drum sized can the first time I watched it, but then when I re-watched it it's definately just a coffeecan. Unless they make really big duct tape and write really really big with a sharpie in the future. It has "cry baby" written on it in what looks like magic marker. Which makes the "it's a large ship sir" even funnier to me.

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