Episode #004
Blade Runner
(1982)
He’s seen things us people wouldn’t believe! Josh and Ira dive into one of the most influential SciFi films of all time and, amazingly enough, the first movie both of the boys have seen before. We’ve got opinions, oohhhh we’ve got opinions. Join us!
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So glad that you guys also found the movie boring; I thought maybe it was just me.
I came to the conclusion that Dekerd is not a replicant for the simple reason that EVERY time he fights a replicant he has the crap beat out of him — he doesn’t have a replicant’s strength or reflexes. Which BTW makes me wonder how he ever became a Blade Runner in the first place. Picture his career: he tracks a replicant, they beat the crap out of him, he somehow lucks out and kills it — repeat.
As to the empathy problem, the question is: do replicants feel empathy FOR HUMANS? They are more powerful than humans. If their positive emotions are only about themselves or other replicants, they pose a danger.
One thing I like to do is go meta, and so I offer this: Edward James Olmos has a problem with androids. In Blade Runner, it’s replicants, in Battlestar Galactica, it’s cylons.