Recently, I had a twitter conversation with some old friends
about BladeRunner, one of my favourite films as outlined here. Specifically, we were kicking around the
theory that Deckard is a replicant of Gaff, with Gaff’s memories being
implanted into Deckard’s brain in order to fool him into thinking of himself as
human.
It’s an interesting theory, but one with which I
disagree. Twitter is not the best medium
for outlining a path of reasoned thought, so I figured that this was deserving
of some long-form discourse. The
Deckard-As-Replicant-Gaff theory does have some evidence going for it, so I’m
going to begin with some rebuttals.
