# Blade Runner - great or no? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 9, 2003, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blade-runner-great-or-no/167540 "2003-04-09T13:46:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Evil\_Death](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecccb3/32.png) [@Evil\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Death)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blade-runner-great-or-no/167540/41 "2003-04-10T12:21:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by smiling bandit \* > \*\*Doves? Yeah, right! They are like flying rats. > > I was confused about one thing: Did Roy kill the oddball scientist guy, the one who made the little marching men? \*\* Yes, he did - in the hovercar sequence following, the police report lists two victims and names JF as one of them. I have slightly less problem with the symbolism of the dove than with it being there in the first place. Where the hell did it come from? ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blade-runner-great-or-no/167540/42 "2003-04-10T16:52:50Z")
(Regarding my earlier post on Ford killing the replicant revelation.) > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by CalMeacham \* > This has not come up, AFAIK, in any oprevious discussions on the Board, nor in any of the things I’ve read about the film – and I read quite a bit during the initial release and for several years after. If this is true, it was a well-kept secret for a long time. Umm, “click the link” **CalMeacham**. Or, to make it really, really simple: > [@](#): > > - Ridley Scott and Harrison Ford have stated that Deckard was meant to be a > replicant. In Details magazine (US) October 1992 Ford says: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blade-runner-great-or-no/167540.md?page=2)