They are obviously not, they are closer to clones... it seems like organs are "harvested" and enhanced beyond a regular human being.
Nobody ever talks about Blade Runner... but it was weird to me that during the promotional interviews of Blade Runner 2049 a lot of media people were asking questions alluding that a replicant was a robot like Data of Star Trek TNG or even The Terminator.
The impression I get is that when replicants were first created, they were a lot more "mechanical" both physically and emotionally. The "friends" Sebastian creates for himself are an example of this. But by the time Nexus 6 models appeared, replicants had become much more human.
If the humans in the film (like Deckard) nonetheless still refer to them as "robots," "machines," "skinjobs," etc., I think it's meant to represent how they prefer to use such dehumanizing terms to make it more acceptable to treat them as slave labor and kill those that resist. Even the act of killing them ("retire") becomes a euphemism more suited to deactivating a robot than taking a sentient life.
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing.
shareWell its not that surprising when you consider people do the same to other actual humans back here in the real world.
Replicants are genetically altered men and women. They are not robots, never have been and never will be.
shareThey are robots. Apparently biological or near biological.
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