Line #28 Recap/FilmRerollBladeRunner


1	-> Film/BladeRunner continues! Courtney gets a hat! Carolyn gets a wig! Lisa drinks Champagne! Pitr drinks Zima! Paulo pets a cat!
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3	Episodes 74-76 of Podcast/FilmReroll. Based on [[Film/BladeRunner the 1982 science-fiction film.]]
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5	In the far off future of... TheNewTens, four offworld fugitives -- Roy, Leon, Zhora and Pris -- [[YourDaysAreNumbered who don't have much time left on this or any planet,]] land in Los Angeles to find their "father" and search for a cure for their conditions, all without being caught in the act.
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7	Meanwhile, Rachel -- a high-ranking employee at the Tyrrel Corporation MegaCorp -- is visited by a strange man who has shown a particular interest in her, and decides to investigate what his deal is.
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9	The first episode was released on November 22 2019, [[MeaningfulReleaseDate only a few days after the opening of the film is set, and possibly within its' timespan.]]
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11	Starring Paulo Quiros as Roy, Courtney Alana Ward (FirstAppearance) as Rachel, Kara Strait[[note]] credited as “Pitr Strait” [[/note]] as Leon, Lisa Kopitsky as Zhora, Carolyn Faye Kramer as Pris[[note]]starting in Part 2[[/note]], and Jocelyn "Joz" Vammer as the Dungeon Master.
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13	Followed by [[Recap/FilmRerollButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.]]
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16	!!Tropes:
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18	* AdaptationalBadass: Zhora puts up more of a fight against Deckard before he kills her, whereas in the film, she simply ran away while he shot her in the back.
19	* AdaptationalHeroism: Deckard is now helpful and supportive towards Rachel from the beginning, whereas in the film, he first had to overcome some of his own [[FantasticRacism bigotry]] and [[JerkassRealization general douchiness.]]
20	* AdaptationalIntelligence: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]], but in the film, Leon had traits of a DumbMuscle. Here, Kara plays him as a man of average intelligence, while drawing attention to his skills as a mechanic.
21	* AdaptedOut: J.F. Sebastian never appears, as the replicants find other means of reaching Tyrell. Presumably, he's also SparedByTheAdaptation.
22	* AmbiguouslyBi: When Leon winds up fixing the car of an employee of the Tyrrel Corporation, Joz mentions that his mind is blown seeing Leon work, prompting Kara to joke that they then have sex. Shortly thereafter, she decides to roll on the Kinsey Scale to see if Leon's gay, only for the roll to state he's straight. But then later on, when Leon unintentionally hits on the man[[note]]upon noticing the lights in the hallway they're walking down go out after they pass, Leon remarks that [[DeadlyEuphemism has seen the lights in a man's eyes go out in a similar manner]][[/note]], he remarks "Maybe I ''am'' gay...", prompting Paulo to add his two cents:
23	-->'''Paulo''': [K-Kara] rolls for every episode for Kinsey, and then if it's "Straight", [she] rejects the result!
24	* AllPartOfTheShow:
25	** When Rachel is put under the Voight-Kampff test, the players suggest that maybe they're actually testing ''Courtney'' to see if ''she'' is a replicant!
26	** InUniverse, the club audience thinks the brawl between Pris and the actual performer is a scripted part of the act.
27	* AmateurSleuth: Rachel, who tries to learn more about Deckard and why he seems so fascinated by her.
28	* AmbiguouslyHuman: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] with Deckard. The old lady knows that there's something special about him, but she can't tell whether or not he's a replicant.
29	* AnotherSideAnotherStory: Much like [[Recap/FilmRerollJohnWick John Wick]], the campaign is told from the point of view of the antagonists of the original film. Of course, whether or not it's ''actually'' a case of {{Villain Protagonist}}s versus a HeroAntagonist is [[GreyAndGrayMorality far less certain here.]]
30	* ApologeticAttacker: Deckard says "I'm sorry" to both Zhora and Pris before executing them.
31	* BavarianFireDrill: Zhora manages to walk right up to a random rich guy -- nicknamed "Mr. Deep Pockets" by the players -- and do ''such'' a good acting roll that he becomes convinced that they have already been sleeping together. She also manages to have some success strutting through the strip club like she owns the place, immediately landing a star position.
32	* BoundAndGagged: Rachel leaves a guard like this in the bathroom after seducing him and stealing his keys.
33	* BittersweetEnding: Roy and his crew are all dead and so is Tyrell. Meanwhile, Decard and Rachel have the closest thing to a HappilyEverAfter ending the setting allows for.
34	* ButNowIMustGo: Just like how she abruptly entered the campaign, once Pris dies in Part 3, Carolyn leaves the apartment.
35	* CallingTheOldManOut: Roy and Leon both call out Tyrell for selling them into slavery and supposedly reducing their lifespans. Tyrell, for his part, calmly claims that they were actually stolen from him, and that he was simply unable to make them live longer.
36	* ContrivedCoincidence:
37	** The nightclub dancer Pris unwittingly impersonated just happens to also be a replicant. She uses this to her advantage by exposing it and then running away in the ensuing chaos.
38	** Unbeknownst to both the players and the characters, Roy has spent the night in the same building where Deckard has his apartment. They only realize this when the two characters run into each other on the stairway.
39	* ConvenientReplacementCharacter: After Zhora dies, Lisa instead gets to play Dr. Meredith Sprince, one of Tyrell's scientists.
40	* CostumePorn: At Carolyn's insistance, Joz describes ''all of'' the (quite skimpy) outfits worn by the girls in the line to the club toilet.
41	* CrazyCatLady: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted.]] Roy spends the night in an apartment belonging to a seemingly senile woman who owns "an approximation of a cat," then it turns out that she's not ''nearly'' as crazy after all...
42	* DeathSeeker: PlayedForLaughs. Kara assumes that while her friends may want to extend their lives, her character probably just wants to die, so she decides to find work as a mechanic.
43	* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: Leon now manages to avoid Deckard and instead die of his RapidAging in Tyrell's office, along with Roy. (Zhora and Pris also die under slightly different circumstances, but still during face-offs with the eponymous Blade Runner.)
44	* EarthAllAlong: Weirdly [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]. Joz mentions briefly in the first episode that the story is only ''supposedly'' set on Earth. [[AbortedArc This is never mentioned again.]]
45	* FaceDeathWithDignity: Tyrell offers his dying creations a glass of champagne, encouraging them to appreciate their lives regardless of how lengthy or brief they end up being. When Roy then kills him he seems surprised, but ultimately accepting of his fate. Roy and Leon succumb to their CloneDegeneration shortly thereafter, passing away quietly.
46	* GoodAngelBadAngel: Roy gets a pair of these while debating whether or not to steal a gun from a weapons store. He ends up listening to the devil, overestimating his own strength and failing to get it through the safety glass, forcing him to bluff his way through the rest of the purchase.
47	* GreyAndGrayMorality: Very much in place. Most of our protagonists are relentless criminals, but they are, ultimately, escaped slaves desperately trying to stay alive. Meanwhile, Tyrell is the BigBad responsible for the whole mess, but he shows signs of regret and claims that he never wanted any of it to happen. Then there's Deckard, who is a ProfessionalKiller, but only because his superiors force him to, and serves as both the antagonist of the escapee plot ''and'' the love interest of Rachel, who is arguably the only truly innocent character in the campaign.
48	* GroinAttack: Before shooting her dead, Deckard manages to hit Pris with a bullet in the groin.
49	* HeadTiltinglyKinky: Kara is apparently scared of ass-eating, feeling that it may be a slippery slope towards being turned on by murder.
50	* HumanShield: Roy runs into a crowd to avoid getting shot by Deckard.
51	* JanitorImpersonationInfiltration: Rachel disguises herself as first a worker and then a guard to sneak back into Tyrell's headquarters.
52	* JokeAndReceive: [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor A borderline horrifying example]]: When Pris tries to take the dress from one of the clubgoers, she states she feels like she’s about to puke, prompting Pris to immediately turn her towards a toilet. Courtney then jokingly claims Pris gets ''pooped'' on, causing Carolyn to yell at her... only for Joz to reveal she rolled for it, and that it is now canon.
53	* JumpingOffOfTheSlipperySlope: When discussing how she's convinced that she'll eventually be into everything given enough time, Kara voices a concern that she'll wind up being into '''''cannibalism''''' if she were to befriend someone who was.
54	* LittleBitBeastly: Due to "high-tailing" becoming a mild AuthorCatchphrase for Joz, the Rerollers speculate that maybe the Replicants have animal tails... and [[VoodooShark proceed to question why the Blade Runners would then even bother with the elaborate empathy test.]]
55	* MasterActor: Racel has higher actings stats than the other replicants, due to being a more advanced model who can more easily pass as human.
56	* MayflyDecemberRomance: This becomes the case every time Zhora or Pris flirts with a human. [[AvertedTrope Averted]] with Rachel and Deckard, though. Not only are both of them replicants, but they're revealed in the end to ''not'' suffer from the RapidAging which affects most of their brethren.
57	* MindScrewDriver: Unlike the film, the campaign ultimately foregoes any ambiguity and has Rachel finding documents confirming Deckard to be a replicant.
58	* MistakenForSpecialGuest: Pris is mistaken for a stripper and pushed onstage, which becomes an issue when the ''real'' stripper shows up mid-show...
59	* MrFixit: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted.]] Leon manages to fix an assembly line, but doesn't have much luck when his employers actually ''appoint'' him to fix other things.
60	* NoOSHACompliance: Pris and Deckard have a shoot-out on a fire escape which literally falls apart as it's hit by their stray bullets.
61	* OutsideContextVillain: The old lady Roy speaks to turns out to be some kind of ancient vampire, which is certainly a new addition to the world of Blade Runner. She ends up offering him some information in exchange for some blood.
62	* RunningGag: Kara reminding everyone that her character is a mechanic.
63	* SixthRanger: A meta example. Carolyn literally walks into the session early on in the second episode and takes up the role of Pris, who was previously a NonPlayerCharacter, actually becoming the campaign's sixth player in the process.
64	* SoProudOfYou: Tyrell praises Roy and Leon for managing to find him, even though they're wanted criminals who have just broken into his suite.
65	* TakeOffYourClothes: Pris does this twice in the club, first to get a dress from some girl, (with, ahem... [[ExcrementStatement mixed results]]) and then to get shoes from a guy with tiny feet, (which goes better, and ends up giving him a newfound appreciation for dominant ladies.)
66	* TapOnTheHead: Leon knocks out Dr. Meredith by driving her face into a wall before she has time to call security.
67	* TemptingFate: When it finally comes time for Kara's turn in the first episode, she decides to bring up the fact that up until that point, ''no one'' had Crit Failed a roll. [[OhCrap So naturally, things get slightly tense when Leon needs to roll for Street Wise.]][[note]][[NotSoDire Granted, it wasn't a failed roll.]][[/note]]
68	* ToiletHumor: Pris leads a girl into a club toilet with the intention of stealing her outfit, under the pretense of offering her drugs. However, said girl ends up having some stomach issues and poops all over Pris, while trying to throw up in the toilet. [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere Pris leaves the stall immediately.]]
69	* {{Tuckerization}}: At the club Zhora gets employed at, there is -- along with your standard sword swallovers -- also somebody named Pitr unsuccessfully trying to swallow a whole couch, which is apparently just something their real namesake was attempting at that very moment. (Of course, this was later somewhat [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] when said namesake [[MeaningfulRename eventually changed her name to Kara.]])
70	* VocalDissonance: Lisa mentions that before actually joining the podcast, she pictured Kara Strait — who was still presenting as male at the time — with more of a [[TheTwink twink]] look, something akin to an older Jack Frost from WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians. (Kara ''does'' admit to liking the design.) The other Rerollers bring up the fan comments that she apparently didn’t sound bald.
71	** This later became something of a BrickJoke where — while [[UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} coming out as trans]] one and a half years later — Kara Strait revealed that she now sported a full head of hair, and that the listeners had — in a sense — been right all along.
72	* {{Zeerust}}:
73	** [[DiscussedTrope Discussed.]] The players point out how surreal it is that a film has a VideoPhone, (which is very much real technology today) but depicts it as a stationary ''pay phone'', as these have been all but phased out in favour of mobile devices. They conclude that science-fiction writers are often more capable and interested in predicting future techology than the society-changing ''applications'' of said technology.

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