From: yoss1960@eternal-september.org   
      
   Starbugaboo wrote:   
      
   >> There's even the wholesale ripping off a scene from Blade Runner.   
   > Homage is the word you're groping for. They even state that it's   
      
   Nope.  Ripping off was definitely the phrase I was after.  An homage isn't   
   merely the wholesale cloning of a number of scenes from the original.   
      
   > influence is Blade Runner in the dialog. You don't normally do that if   
      
   "normally" being the operative word.   
      
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