So after watching BladeRunner and 2049 it appears that replicants were positioned as a way to get more slave labour into the world trade agreement.
But it seems that replicants were more than just clones of clones.
They were manufactured literally in a human factory shop that comes with eyeballs tagged with their nexus # Identification numbers and then, at the will of someone like Wallace would ask that one be spat out of the chop shop in the upstairs high-tech loft of nanoproduction of organ replication and have him demonstrate how pitiful they were.
I begin to think that replicants were just a way to put the drama into what is already pretty outright and outrageous to even think about, that is, adding cloned human beings into a science fiction tale made to answer the problem of under-population/climate change and made them up so that they are all expendable assets.They needed more chew to the bite, so they made them super human with indestructible qualities (in a world without Wallace super secret exacto knife that can cut through anything).
Remember all those times Joe gets blown up be an incinderary device and he AND his D&G leather jacket is still in good reselling condition and just shakes it off and slowly and gingerly opens the door to the next room. ok....film making at its best, so what?
I thought this a bit much.But the truth is Blade Runner seemed to have started off as an interesting thing, but needed more action and fighting....so the indestructible bit needed its place. In reality, it is quite possible because the sense of nanomaterials being indestructable paves the way for antigravity products and faster than light travel with gravitation within a ship to be capable for human living (especially when they make films on it with pool tables and billiard/basket balls that bounce around realistically).
Well with all that said, there is a lot to say about how David 8 was created, how he is vulnerable and how it relates to replicants.
At some point, nanomaterial makers might have insisted on making products less indestructible and synthetic skin more vulnerable simliar to that of humans. So they made Replicants with "less complications (being superhuman) and more like us" (this very statement is a quote from A:Covenant). Thus, David can be destructible since you can jab him in the throat with a flute and have him piss all over the floor with his synthetic juices all for the sake of story and drama. Which is cool...but they allow him to transfer his persona or memories to another of the same product line. Cool.I get it.
So there is a difference. He is made up of synthetically made organs (the shortfilms from Prometheus shows this) and he is also destructible and therefore not super human.
Might we have a Nexus 8 vs David 8 intervention? Wallace design vs Hyperdyne? Did I get it right? Hyperdyne were the ones who created synthetics?
Might we have a human synthetic vs a super human synthetic story? That would be cool right? maybe they are doing it right now with the tv show.
