This Sequel Proves That Blade Runners Are... 100% Unnecessary
The Blade Runner's professional replicant hunters make for great protagonists but they're actually not needed: Black Lotus proves as much... And we're confused now.
Blade Runners' endeavors are quite entertaining but unnecessary. To understand that, we need to address the first movie and then one of the franchise's sequels.
Remember when Rick Deckard was hunting down the self-aware replicants that were aiming at killing the head of Tyrell Corp — the company that created the Nexus Series replicants in the first place?
Tyrell made the replicants short-lived but self-aware, and this decision led to the rebellions that we saw in the movie.
Rick Deckard and his fellow Blade Runners were created as a solution to this problem as they were hunting down specific replicants that were causing trouble — but all this time, there was a much simpler way to take care of it once and for all.
Blade Runner: Black Lotus proves as much. As this series reveals, there was in fact a way to make replicants completely subservient, and Wallace Corp (Tyrell's successor) succeeded in this task.
Wallace's replicants were unable to rebel, harm, and even resist humans even if put in immediate life-threatening danger by them.
In episode 4 of Black Lotus, the main character, Elle, remembers how she was caught up with other replicants in the middle of a desert with a group of humans shooting them down one by one.
All those replicants thought of themselves as humans and tried to survive, but none of them could harm the attackers.
This test called the Doll Hunt proved that with a simple upgrade, the new replicants could be rendered completely harmless and subservient to humans.
Wallace himself then decided against implementing this security measure in his new models as his God complex prohibited him from "restricting" his creations in such a way.
But Wallace's decision didn't have anything to do with reality, and in reality, the Doll Hunt proved that there was a simple way to avoid bloodshed and rebellions by tweaking all the replicants to be harmless.
Then, there would've been no need for violence — and no need for Blade Runners whatsoever.