I always thought they were like Terminators with robotic parts and organic parts. It makes the "skin-job" slur make a lot more sense.
They never outright say it, it's true, it's just always how it read to me, and they didn't make it explicit.
I'm talking about the movies, not the book. In fact the original films press kits specifically described them as A genetically engineered creature composed entirely of organic substance
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You sir, are a hideous hermaphroditical character which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman.
I always thought they were like Terminators with robotic parts and organic parts. It makes the "skin-job" slur make a lot more sense.
They never outright say it, it's true, it's just always how it read to me, and they didn't make it explicit.
This exchange pretty much says it all:
Tyrell: [Tyrell explains to Roy why he can't extend his lifespan] The facts of life... to make an alteration in the evolvement of an organic life system is fatal. A coding sequence cannot be revised once it's been established.
Batty: Why not?
Tyrell: Because by the second day of incubation, any cells that have undergone reversion mutation give rise to revertant colonies, like rats leaving a sinking ship; then the ship... sinks.
Batty: What about EMS-3 recombination?
Tyrell: We've already tried it - ethyl, methane, sulfinate as an alkylating agent and potent mutagen; it created a virus so lethal the subject was dead before it even left the table.
Batty: Then a repressor protein, that would block the operating cells.
Tyrell: Wouldn't obstruct replication; but it does give rise to an error in replication, so that the newly formed DNA strand carries with it a mutation - and you've got a virus again... but this, all of this is academic. You were made as well as we could make you.
Batty: But not to last.
Tyrell: The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long - and you have burned so very, very brightly, Roy. Look at you: you're the Prodigal Son; you're quite a prize!
Batty: I've done... questionable things.
Tyrell: Also extraordinary things; revel in your time.
Batty: Nothing the God of biomechanics wouldn't let you into heaven for.
How does one do that with flesh? It almost seems like lazy writing, looking back.
How do transporters work? How do ray guns work? It's future shit, man. They don't have to explain how they do it.
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