Blue Hands Demise?
POSTED BY: Calhoun
UPDATED: Friday, April 28, 2006 14:52
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I don't think we've seen the last of them, or their kind atleast, no way they go out that easily. They conveniently showed only their heads in the picture, we still don't know what was underneath those blue suits.
Quote:It was Microsoft and Coca-Cola.
Originally posted by V:
Didn't Joss say at one point Blue Sun was like Wal-Mart cross bred with Microsoft? Makes sense.
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Yes, because the Blue Sun isn't as evil as Wal-Mart.
If anyone gets nosy...Shoot em.
Shoot em sir?
Politely.
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I guess he did compare them to Wal-Mart at one point, so Wal-coca-soft.
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So, we can kill Blue Sun by killing its heart, somewhere in the electronics behind the TVs with a Pepsi while playing the Ballad of Serenity on an iPod?
Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal, Fox!
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Originally posted by Algus:
They were called independent contracters...
I've thought about that too but...
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couldn't they have been talking about Dobson and his lackeys?
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Could you please just make it stranger? Just stranger. Odder. Could be weirder. More bizarre. How about uncanny?
~Joss Whedon
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Originally posted by thesoapboxer:
I've thought about that too but...Select to view spoiler:
couldn't they have been talking about Dobson and his lackeys?
"Dobson and his lackeys" seem to be just independent, not working for anyone but Dobson. Different agendas. The Blue Hands wanted River, Dobson wanted revenge, an association of convenience.
"Independent Contracters" is vague. Maybe freelancers, mercenaries or bounty hunters, but it also could be a private corporation with a "services" company providing contractors to the Alliance, or Parliament.
There had to be a reason River was paralyzed in fear of them. After all, she didn't fear Early, who is pretty scarely. But when the Blue Hands appear, she leaves Wash, Simon and Kaylee to deal with them? After seeing her save the crew in OIS, this was very disappointing.
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Didn't the operative say "Most of them, Yes." on the second to last page? I think that they're not yet dead. ((Cue the Princess Bride or Spamalot refrences))
If anyone gets nosy...Shoot em.
Shoot em sir?
Politely.
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I don't see the Blue Hands as killers.
I see them more as Cleaners.
To me, the Operative is the real hunter. He goes out and doesn't seem to count the dead on the way.
The Blue Hands are cold, but they always walk. These guys don't seem to have anything to prove, don't seem to kill along the way. Even if they do kill Feds on Ariel. Those Feds had specifically talked to River Tam.
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I didn't look at that close enough.
In the picture above, I never noticed that was the Blue Hand's ship docked to the Alliance cruiser.
The way I see this:
The Operative is on the crusier when he receives the message "Our independent contractors have disappeared". He replies with "Much of them", refering to the two skulls we see in the docked ship.
Then he accepts the assignment.
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I think we are suppose to see a similiarity in the way River kills in War Stories, and the way the Blue Hands kill in Ariel. To River, it is just a math problem, no appropiate emotion, and this freaks out Kaylee. The Blue Hands are the same, they kill without emotion.
To answer my own question as to why River fears them. In the Firefly script, "Dead or Alive":
http://www.fireflyfans.net/feature.asp?f=45
On River telling her story to the children. She's smiling, enjoying herself.
RIVER
(sweetly sing-songy)
And then the beautiful princess got
tired of waiting for her handsome
prince and tried to escape, but they
found her and to punish her they
locked her in a smelly, white, cold
room where the evil blue demons
strapped electrodes to her face and
started to shock her. Zap, zap, zap,
until she couldn't stop screaming.
Only no one could hear.
River's still smiling, the kids not so much. In fact, they're just a little bit freaked out by the story and by the freaky lady telling it.
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