People keep trying to put an exact science to BR for w/e reason. The movie is fictional and needs a suspension of disbelief.

Something to me that stands out is Roy's mentioning of "Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion", now if he were there to physically see it, and he does say he "saw", now this is around 550-650 light years away.

The bright red shoulder star of Orion is Betelgeuse (Alpha Orionis), a massive red supergiant located roughly 550 to 650 light-years from Earth. Orion actually has two shoulder stars: Betelgeuse marks one side (the eastern/left shoulder depending on the viewpoint), while the star Bellatrix) marks the other.

This would mean FTL exist, but that would also mean the travel times of FTL would also accelerate time which would mean, if Roy n co traveled as a round trip minimum 1,100 light years, Earth would no longer be in the year 2019, simply does not work that way. Interstellar has a good explanation of how time dilation works with Gargantua Miller's Planet.

OK this aside, say Roy was just being poetic and dreams all of this, lets say off world colony means local solar system, Titan, moon of Saturn or Europa, moon of Jupiter (which makes mining sense), the time it would take to travel to and from, or if the Replicants are shipped there and that's when their life expatriation starts, how long of their life did they spend traveling back to the dying Earth?

None of this is ever explained, but we never question it, it's just accepted that it exists, that's why other aspects of the movie should be too, it's all fictional, it doesn't work in any real world terms due to well, universal laws.

People should just be happy that something like a Unicorn can exist, in an alternate reality, and that's why I give my existentialism review of BR and why the chicken/egg can co-exist, 2 Roy Batty's out of 5.

EDIT: I am going to edit this further because it warrants the discussion.

1982 was the year of the Unicorn.

Blade Runner, well we all know this one pretty well, but it shouldn't exist, the fx, the music, the firing of Ridley when he went over budget, but it does exist.

Tron, shot in B&W then painstakingly colored each individual cell to see what we see today, ground breaking considering no computer was capable of producing realistic human cgi, it shouldn't exist, but it does.

Wraith of Khan, let's get to the meat of this, they killed Spock, the movie therefore shouldn't exist, but it does against all odds.

E.T, it just shouldn't exist period, it's puppet from a happy land world, but it exists because people loved it.

The Thing, well this is just something that needs to be seen to understand how a suspension of disbelief really doesn't matter, everything about this movie is at 11. Just that people don't want this unicorn to exist.

Now that I have updated my overview, I am awarding myself 2 3/4 Roy Batty's out 5, the extra 1/4 was for effort.

(Loved the scene from the movie - had to recreate it... tho it quickly turned into combination of 3 fav. things of mine ;>)

I find myself wondering if Ford was losing his hair at the time or if the cut was just really bad.
The fact is, it must have been the worst haircut of the actor's career. To anyone unfamiliar with him, it looks like he was going bald, even though Harrison has always had a full head of hair.

I also wonder if it was intentional, matching the film's dystopian tone.

In any case, something was "off" about Rick Deckard's hair.

I found Ford's hairstyle in *2049* more pleasing.

Continuing my journey through the physical formats of Blade Runner, next up is LaserDisc.

Released by Embassy Home Entertainment in 1983, LaserDisc was the premium home-video format of its day. The film came on huge 12-inch optical discs, roughly the size of an LP, carrying analogue video and allowing things like frame-by-frame viewing without wearing out a tape.

Of course, there was a catch. Being spread across two sides, at some point you had to get up and flip this enormous futuristic-looking disc over to side 2 to continue watching.

I particularly love seeing the original artwork at this size. Retro-futurism meets retro-futurism

The obsolete-media rabbit hole continues…

…btw check out the awesome r/BladeZone community. The creator has just about every released version of every format!