My least understood River's
POSTED BY: ManiacNumberOne
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Everybody's assuming that Blue Sun is part of the Alliance, or are in bed with each other. What if Blue Sun is nothing more than a corporation. Just an amazingly powerful one. And what if River's dislike of Blue Sun is because they created PAX?(That's the agent that infected Miranda, right? I haven't seen the movie in a while.) The Alliance heard about it, and decided to fund the research. Then before the Miranda debacle they planned to get it out to the general population by using Blue Sun products. And that is why River goes crazy at the mention of Blue Sun. Now just because Blue Sun didn't make the cans doesn't mean they didn't ship them. Or they didn't come in a Blue Sun box before they were put in that tray thing.
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Originally posted by Epeyon:
Everybody's assuming that Blue Sun is part of the Alliance, or are in bed with each other. What if Blue Sun is nothing more than a corporation. Just an amazingly powerful one.
I think you just contradicted yourself, there.
If they are "an amazingly powerful" corperation, chances are that they are or have at least TRIED to get "in bed" with the government.
Pharmaceutical companies, car companies, construction, no matter what the business is, if it's booming, the company usually tries to get in good with the government, in the hopes of getting government grants (such as for chemical research *COUGHPAXPOSSIBLYCOUGH*), tax breaks, laws that support them and not their competitors (again, I still feel there must be really high tariffs on exports for smuggling to be so lucrative on such silly-seeming objects, and Blue Sun seems to have a monopoly or near-monopoly on commericial foodstuffs, for instance), you name it.
A mega-corperation like Blue Sun that has its hands in so many different kinds of products, and IIRC, was compared by the series creator himself to Microsoft? Let alone with the kind of inter-planetary ubiquitiousness they have?
They may or may not be as tied-in as many of us suspect, but they're certainly in metaphorical bed with each on some level.
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And what if River's dislike of Blue Sun is because they created PAX?(That's the agent that infected Miranda, right? I haven't seen the movie in a while.)
Paxilon hydrochlorate, aka PAX, yes.
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The Alliance heard about it, and decided to fund the research. Then before the Miranda debacle they planned to get it out to the general population by using Blue Sun products.
There is one slight bone of contention I have with this theory:
PAX is a gas. At room temperature. It has to be, since it was in the air being pumped into buildings on Miranda. I don't think you could ingest it (through food or drink) at room temperature, nor would you absorb it through skin. It sounds like you'd have to breath it in.
Not to say it couldn't be worked around, or that there can't be another Paxilon product that isn't a gas, but it does raise some problems/questions about your theory.
Anybody who DIDN'T almost fail high school chemistry wanna take a crack at that?
(NOTE: I mean *I* almost failed HS chem, of course. Though I have to wonder if it's not because I happened to have the neurotic, OCDish, pedantic, universally-agreed-as-worst-ever-at-that-school science teacher teaching my chem class
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And that is why River goes crazy at the mention of Blue Sun.
Wouldn't Blue Sun's being the creators of PAX, the substance the Alliance used on Miranda, make them kinda in bed together on some level, in and of itself? Giving them grants in exchange for a substance to control the masses is as good as being in bed with them, a you-scratch-my-evil-misguided-back-I'll-scratch-yours situation, as it were.
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Now just because Blue Sun didn't make the cans doesn't mean they didn't ship them.
A fair point.
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Or they didn't come in a Blue Sun box before they were put in that tray thing.
Also possible.
~Emma
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