h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Where do you stand on the "Was Deckhard a replicant" question?

To be honest, I only realised that there was a question over Deckard being a replicant recently (Duhhh! me stoopid), but having considered it, he has to be, doesn't he?

I mean, the unicorn reverie scene is as close as Ridley Scott would get to saying so (in a veiled way); plus, the scenes involving Deckard's piano, with all the old photos of female members of his family (I presume they're members of his family) on it is an obvious parallel to Leon's pictures (cue Roy Batty saying 'did you get your precious photos?'). He is also asked by Rachel in the Tyrell building if he's 'ever taken [the Voigt-Kampf] test himself', to which he doesn't reply.

Finally, (and this is the clincher for me), Deckard is a homophone of (i.e. sounds a lot like) Descartes, and Pris says to JF Sebastian when asked to prove that she's a replicant 'I think therefore I am'. (well, it's not the strongest of arguments, but it works for me).

The BFi do a really good little book on BladeRunner. I don't have it to hand right now, but it's part of their Modern Classics series, or something like that. They're small and black with blue bits on the spine. How's that for descriptive powers, eh?

My god I'm a doofus...If I had been paying attention I would have seen this post and not asked you the question of "did you get your mane from Bladerunner"
~cheeze walks away shaking her head~