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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 10:27:00 -0500
- From: Edward Liu <el24+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Subject: Re: Bladerunner charector in BTAS (was BTAS 11/16: Heart of Steel)
- In-Reply-To: <SS.92Nov17083025@wpi.WPI.EDU>
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- In <SS.92Nov17083025@wpi.WPI.EDU>, ss@wpi.WPI.EDU (Scott Streeter) writes:
- >>>>>> On Tue, 17 Nov 1992 00:47:34 -0500 , "Kevin J. Chen"
- <kc2w+@andrew.cmu.edu> said:
- >
- >Kevin> Looks like the record for episodes of BTAS with "Heart of..."
- >Kevin> in the title is pretty good... :)
- >
- >So did anyone notice that Carl Rossen looked and sounded just like
- >J F Sebation (sp?) from Bladerunner. Thought that was cool...
- >
-
- I have to admit that I didn't like the show very much as BATMAN stuff.
- However, there are a *LOT* of sci-fi/robot inside jokes throughout the movie,
- so I think that the episode was meant more as a tribute to the great "robot"
- movies of sci-fi. The episode made references to:
-
- o 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Kevin mentioned in his post that HARDAC resembled HAL in appearance
- and vocal tone. I agree, especially when you note the single red
- lens that acts as HARDAC's "eye." (However, I don't think you can
- shift the letters in HARDAC to get "Informix" or anything like that
- :-)
- o The Terminator (1 & 2)
- The robot factory within HARDAC looked a lot like the terminator
- factory that you saw in the trailers to _T2_ -- assembling an arm,
- attaching the arm to an endoskeleton, and then putting the
- endoskeleton into this press-thingie to surround it in flesh. Also,
- in the next episode trailer, you saw the blonde with a
- half-torn up face revealing a metal skull and one red eye underneath.
- She was trying to press Batman underneath a big hydraulic press
- like the one Sarah Connor used to kill the terminator in the first
- movie. Give you three guesses how I think the blonde robot is gonna
- get it at the end of part II...
-
- o Blade Runner
- HARDAC calls his robot doubles "duplicants" -- echoing "replicants"
- from Blade Runner. Also, (to finally address the article quoted
- above), the voice for Rossen was done by William Sanderson, known for
- playing (surprise!) J.F. Sebastian in _Blade Runner_.
-
- Did anybody else catch any other sci-fi references in the episode?
-
- -- Ed
- Edward C. Liu | " 'Ed, are you hallucinating?'
- el24+@andrew.cmu.edu | 'Huh? Oh. Yeah, but not right now."
- (E-L, not E-One) | -- _Northern Exposure_, Nov 9 1992
-