About the Firefly 'verse. Beyond the obvious.

POSTED BY: Askew
UPDATED: Sunday, August 1, 2004 23:16
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DESANGRO

Saturday, July 31, 2004 5:45 PM

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Originally posted by 34cygni:
As for the food bars in the pilot, remember that they were highly concentrated ("One of those'll feed a family for a month. Longer, if they don't like their kids too well.") and included immunization supplements and who knows what-all else, as well. Not your run-of-the-mill protein paste.

I think of those government-issue bars as being standard ship-board fare for the Alliance soldiers and Navy crew. After all, who would need that sort of stuff more than a soldier?

EMBASSY

Saturday, July 31, 2004 5:48 PM

It's common in industrial agriculture even today to use seed from the big companies that has to be purchased each season. The plants grown from this seed aren't fertile. They merely produce a season's worth of grain or whatever. This is done to protect the biotech patents. It wouldn't do to create some high-tech genetically modified corn, for example, and have anyone with a plow and a dirt-patch growing it two seasons later.

Imagine that when Earth-that-was was abandoned, the only crops that were available were the ones Blue Sun controlled. The incredible biodiversity of our earth would be a thing of the past, and helps explain why most planets in the 'verse look like deserts, and why things like strawberries are luxury items.

ASKEW

Sunday, August 1, 2004 5:10 PM

I see BlueSun as a combination of The East India Company/ Archer Daniels Midland/ Tyson Fresh Meats/California Agricultural Board with probably a government conssesion on at least some of the control. I think all the protien foodstuffs are Blue Sun. And my guess is that if you want to sell your crops or cattle you have to sell to Blue Sun Granaries or Blue Sun Packing. The easiest way to control the food and the reason Kaylee doesn't have at least a tomato plant growing on the ship is that all food is quarunteened to its own planet. Probably under the guise of protecting from a pandemic. Imagine picking up a corn blight on one planet and then hopping around spreading it to other planets without knowing until after the blight has broken out. Under this program Blue Sun can control the prices they pay the growers and control the prices they pay the buyers. A perfect system that doesn't require a huge bureaucracy to maintain it. The strengths of capitalism with Blue Sun getting a huge cut of everyone's efforts.

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MER

Sunday, August 1, 2004 11:16 PM

I'm not going to say much since after all I think everybody pretty much answered my possible viewpoints (which even I don't even know if they seem right to me).

Firstly, there are Asian people in the show. You're just not looking for them close enough. The only one scene I can remember by memory is "Safe". One (or few) of the villagers shown at River's (almost) burning was Asian.
All the asians I've seen are extras right now. There hasn't been written parts for them yet as I percieve.

Secondly, I just got another thought about Book recently. Everybody's always saying he could possibly be a general or a cop, but what if he was a son of a duke, a king, or someone who's REALLY important? I mean, Kings and Queens can't just disappear like that. Usually the eldest ends up taking the throne or leadership while the other siblings are free to do as they wish with inheiritants. That sibling could be Book who chose his life to be in the monastaries as many princes or duke's son (whoever in power) did in the elder days. Also, I do believe Princes are taught how to fight. It would be just plain wrong if they were a bunch of Simons (not to sound negative, but I'm sure he's better with a sword than fist or gun). Book doesn't have to be a prince. He could be just a son of a very important person who chose his life since he's second inline to inherit their wealth and etc. My brain is telling me "Blue Sun" but what are the odds of that happening?

And thirdly, I believe the Blue Hands are part of Blue Sun who are trying their best to overhand Alliance for overall controll. They're let to have control over food, but I'm sure they want more. So with this, they put up a good image to wield the Alliance into thinking they're just one of those big companies out to make a living when in reality all they want is to be in total control of people's lives.

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