# Blade Runner **URL:** **By** Peter Suderman, Aaron Ross Powell, Landry Ayres, Natalie Dowzicky **Published:** November 25, 2020 --- Aaron Ross Powell \& Peter Suderman come back on the show to discuss Ridley Scott’s original Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049. ## Summary: In 2019 Los Angeles, Deckard is a blade runner who is tasked with the job of hunting down humanoids known as “replicants” who are illegally on Earth. Fast forward to 2049, when Officer K is a new blade runner who discovers a well-kept secret that leads him to Deckard, who has been missing for 30 years. What is the difference between being “born” and being “created”? Who gets to decide whether or not robots or humanoids have rights? How do you know your memories are yours and not someone else’s?