Questions regarding the Deckard/Bryant conversation

by Hollastar;

"When Bryant is explaining the 4 year lifespan to Deckard, I'm assuming this is only exclusive to the Nexus 6 models?"

The viewer does not know the lifespan of the earlier models or when the Tyrell Corp. switched from building mechanical robots to biological / engineered clones.
- What I understood about the 4 year life span was that the Nexus 6 had more sophisticated emotions and could learn deeper emotions. That made them harder to detect and so the limited lifespan.
It's implied that if the Nexus 6 was allowed to live to an average human life, they would eventually be impossible to detect with an emotional response test.

"Also there doesn't appear to be a timeline in place for it but are we meant to assume Deckard has been out of the game for a long time(years?) since he didn't know anything about those models."

That's my assumption. He had quit and was forced back to be a blade runner.
Because of that he did not know about the Nexus 6 or an even more advanced replicant like Rachel.

"If those replicants were offworld working, it seems like there'd be a lot of time passing between them going out and working, escaping and then making their way back to earth."

Yes. It took some time for Roy and his group to hijack a shuttle and get to earth.
And the police tried to prepare for the replicants on earth but that didn't work.

"So why was he forced out of retirement exactly? Was he really just that good in his time?"

Yes. In the beginning of the movie, another blade runner, Holden, is questioning Leon. Leon shot Holden who then had to be in a hospital for treatment.
Bryant tells Deckard that they have a bad problem and only Deckard was good enough to fix it.

Imo a least, BB ;-)

it is just in my opinion - imo - 🌈

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When Bryant is explaining the 4 year lifespan to Deckard

Think about this little detail:
The closest star to our solar system, is 4.2 light years away. This makes it virtually impossible for Roy Batty to have time to experience "attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion". The closest star to Earth, in the Orion constellation, is Belatrix, 243 light years away.

Lets assume teleportation or wormholes. A 4 year life span would still render a replicant virtually useless. You still have to train them to do certain tasks, still have to process them from space port to space port, move them from ships to barracks or whatever.
The sheer bureaucracy of human society - Bryant and his office look nothing like a super-speedy futuristic society - makes it unlikely that a 4 year life span replicant would get to do anything of any use for the corporation.

Also, Bryant says that Roy Batty took a shuttle back to Earth, we have to assume that teleportation or wormholes are trivial in the Blade Runner future, where you can steal a shuttle and poof! land it on Earth without anyone noticing it. Just take the shuttle, steer it into the wormhole, and park it off the coast, no biggie.
Yet one can easily observe that flight technology in Los Angeles is under strict control of the police, there are only a handful of flying vehicles, all civilians -even Deckard- go on foot, bike, metro, land vehicles.

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