This week on Six Pack and a Song's Parking Lot Critiques, Jeffrey and Andy tackle "The Final Cut" of Ridley Scott's 1982 film, Blade Runner. The theatrical release Blade Runner was notoriously fraught with heavy studio interference, and thus the film exists in several different versions. In 2007, an extensive restoration/revision project was completed, resulting in "The Final Cut," which Ridley Scott and many fans consider the definitive version. For this episode, the two hosts discuss the various themes and competing readings of this film, including the central question of whether or not its protagonist, Rick Deckard, is a "replicant" (in other words, a "synthetic human"). Andy digs a little deeper into the history of this film's numerous cuts, and Jeffrey offers insightful context gathered from its sequel, the 2017 film Blade Runner 2049.

NOTE: This episode features the piece "Night on the Docks" by Kevin MacLeod, edited very lightly to fit the podcast, free to use under the license CC BY 3.0.