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[coyotegoth]

Everyone has standard topics they blog about. Challenge me out of my comfort zone by asking me about something I don't blog about, but you'd like to hear about. Ask for anything: latest movie watched, last book read, political leanings, thoughts on slash, favorite type of underwear, graphic techniques, etc. Should you feel so inclined, repost in your own journal, so that we can all learn more about each other.

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[oddyophile.livejournal.com]

Describe in single words only the good things that come into your mind about... your mother.

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

My mother? I'll tell you about my mother...

(What's interesting about that scene is that the actor playign Holden's eyes briefly reflect light in one shot, the same way Derckard's and the replicants' do. Are all the blade runners replicants...?

Bah, first response went through email

[oddyophile.livejournal.com]

That would make sense. The problem with Replicants are
that they are smarter than their creators so you would
want to utilize something as smart and dangerous to
eliminate them.

However I don't think this is true. In the uber-5 disc
set of Blade Runner there's a shot that was left out
of the final edit where Deckard visits Holden in the
hospital. He's in a coma and on life support. I don't
think Tyrell would go through the trouble of putting a
skin-job on life support even for the sake of
preserving Deckard's sense of identity.

Re: Bah, first response went through email

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

Yeah; I kind of see it as: the replicants are potentially embarrassing to Tyrell- if word got out about this, the stock price might drop. However, the replicants aren't dangerous to him (or so he thinks): they aren't sabotaging the safeties on a fusion reactor and turning half the LA Sprawl into fused glass, or some such.

Consequently, there's no need to turn out A-level physical/mental blade runner specimens to hunt them (who would be more likely to realize their own replicantdom): human-normal (B-level, as opposed to Batty's A-level) physical/mental specimens are a good compromise, that still shows the stockholders that Tyrell's doing something about this, without an excessive cash outlay. Besides- this way, the blade runners can be made to think they're human-normal, with a societal investment in stopping the replicants: if Deckard can lift a car, that illusion won't last long.

Holden? A sacrificial goat. The cops let Leon (who was using his real name, and of whom there were perfect 3-D images on file) in there, simply to give the Voight-Kampff machine a test. Oh, Holden got shot? Oh, dear; send in Deckard...(Holden doesn't know it, but as a replicant, he can't sue the city for his being hurt in the line of duty; this may be why that scene was cut before release.)

Gaff? He's the one BR replicant who knows what's going on: an accidental wrong keystroke on a computer, which wound up telling him how long he has to live. At this point, he's playing these games with Deckard (whose memory files- vis. the origami unicorn- Gaff's seen) simply to amuse himself.