Timeline for Why does Roy Batty die in 2019?
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| Nov 14, 2023 at 18:09 | comment | added | user66063 | @mzywiol I understand "A star that shines twice as bright shines half as long" as a poetic description of the current situation (the fact that Nexus 6 have a four-year lifespan) that Tyrell says to placate Roy, rather than causally "because it shines twice as bright". They discuss getting more life than the limited lifespan, not the small difference between November 2019 and 8 January 2020. The replicants are risking a lot, surely they want more than just a few additional weeks. I agree that lifestyle might have shortened Roy's lifespan, but I doubt that that's what Tyrell is getting at. | |
| Nov 14, 2023 at 17:42 | comment | added | user66063 | @Tom Tyrell's priority is to survive rather than to not extend Roy's life. (I'm ignoring here the alternative script where Tyrell is a clone.) Tyrell recognizes the danger, so if he had somehting to offer to Roy, he'd have offered it instead of just refusing to help and thus risking to get killed. I think that he's telling the truth that he has no way of extending Roy's life at this point. On the other hand, I think that "as well as we could make you" is a lie because Bryant says that the designers built in the four-year lifespan. | |
| Feb 21, 2022 at 8:34 | comment | added | Tom | I assume 100% of what Tyrell says to Roy is a lie. Tyrell is an excellent strategist, as evidenced by his chess prowess in the same scene. He immediately recognizes the danger when Roy appears as JF's uninvited guest, and tries to pacify this military super-bot whose team has murdered its way across space to Tyrell's bedroom. It's impossible to be sure whether the genetics discussion is supposed to be true or false since genetic engineering at that level is still fiction, but it stands to reason he would resist a killer robot's attempts to circumvent it's own (badly-needed) security features. | |
| Nov 23, 2017 at 15:38 | comment | added | mzywiol | Tyrell also says something like "A star that shines twice as bright shines half as long, and you shone so very very bright, Roy", meaning that the intense life of Roy might have shortened his lifespan and made him die a little sooner. | |
| Oct 14, 2017 at 22:20 | comment | added | PlasmaHH | @ToddWilcox: I always saw that as good marketing. They were able to do it that way, and thought of a way to sell it to people of being a good thing. | |
| S Oct 14, 2017 at 19:01 | history | suggested | Giacomo1968 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 14, 2017 at 17:43 | comment | added | Rapid Readers | Tying that into @JakeGould's answer, it's not even +/-1 year. It's more like +/- 1 month. | |
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| Oct 14, 2017 at 12:49 | comment | added | John Smith Optional | they could both be correct; they could have been instructed to keep the lifespan short, and 3-4 years was the best they could manage with a genetically built in cellular atrophy... | |
| Oct 14, 2017 at 12:30 | comment | added | Todd Wilcox | I never noticed before that Tyrell's words about not being able to lengthen the lifespan contradict Deckard's boss/coworker describing the lifespan as a built-in "failsafe". | |
| Oct 14, 2017 at 7:39 | history | answered | John Smith Optional | CC BY-SA 3.0 |