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- From: wntrmute@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (August Paul Yang)
- Subject: Re: Bladerunner charector in BTAS (was BTAS 11/16: Heart of Steel)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.232116.29260@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>
- Organization: HAC - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
- References: <Af28RqG00awAQ4o1MV@andrew.cmu.edu> <SS.92Nov17083025@wpi.WPI.EDU> <wf2Ex4e00ioCI4ukl9@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 23:21:16 GMT
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- In article <wf2Ex4e00ioCI4ukl9@andrew.cmu.edu> Edward Liu <el24+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
- >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 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.
- Especially since Cybertron is the name of the company that made the robots
- and Cyberdyne is the company that made the Terminators. Hey! We had a
- Batman vs. the Terminator story (kinda)! Wonder what Dark Horse would say
- about this.
-
- > Did anybody else catch any other sci-fi references in the episode?
- Well, the replacement of people with "clones" reminds me of the Stepford(sp?)
- Wives and The Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
-
- August Paul Yang talks too much and says too little.
- wntrmute@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu
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