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   Standing in the dark, rainy shadows of a city alleyway, I spied the   
   Replicant Sentinel covertly transmitting a message to renegade friends   
   in alt.fan.blade-runner.  Tracking...   
      
   >Netrunner wrote:   
   >> Standing in the dark, rainy shadows of a city alleyway, I spied the   
   >> Replicant Sentinel covertly transmitting a message to renegade friends   
   >> in alt.fan.blade-runner.  Tracking...   
   >>   
   >>> Gnomus wrote:   
   >>>>>>> ...   
   >>>>>>> More subtle? With the VO and the "happy ending"?   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>> No, in terms of the whole Deck-a-rep thing.  It's gotten to the   
   >>>>>> point where Ridley Scott is calling people morons if they don't   
   >>>>>> get it.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Well, he was clearly being in a joking mood when he said that, for   
   >>>>> whatever that is worth.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Was he?  I'll have to watch it again.   
   >>>   
   >>> Well, he was laughing, so I wouldn't take that *too* serious. He   
   >>> obviously has a sense of humour about it.   
   >>   
   >> What kinda irritates me is how he talks about how interesting the   
   >> whole idea of the ambiguity was, but then goes right on and says that   
   >> Deckard is a Replicant.   
   >   
   >The way I see it...   
   >   
   >*Deckard is a replicant*, because that is what Ridley Scott put in (t)his   
   >film.   
   >   
   >I can understand how people feel the issue should have been left ambiguous,   
   >but it really is not. *That* is what the unicorn is about; *that* is why we   
   >see Deckard with the Glowing Eyes.   
      
   The unicorn is not proof, the (reflecting) eyes are not proof and I   
   will continue fighting the good fight to say so.   
      
   >This is not a matter of "opinion" as some like to pretend it is.   
      
   It is too, so nyeh nyeh to you.   
      
   > Also,   
   >saying Scott doesn't have the final word in this matter is IMHO utterly   
   >silly.   
      
   No, because my opinion is as The Viewer, so my judgment is better!   
      
   > Deck-a-rep was his idea in the first place.   
      
   Well, sort of.   
      
   > How can you seriously   
   >maintain that the man is not qualified to judge about his own subtext?   
      
   He is quite entitled to judge his own subtext.  So am I.   
      
   > How   
   >can the director (who in this case was so thoroughly involved with the   
   >project from the start) be casually ignored, just because you don't like the   
   >notion of Deckard possibly being a replicant?   
   >   
   I can assure you that I don't casually ignore him - I work very hard   
   at it!  And to be quite clear, I don't dismiss the idea of Deckard   
   *possibly* being a Replicant within the BR World, I dismiss the   
   certainty that he is.   
      
   Ahhh... nothing like a good old Deck-a-Rep debate to bring back those   
   old feelings...  Will this be the 5 minute argument or the full half   
   hour...?   
      
   Netrunner   
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