In Terminator: Genisys Pops is called "skin job" by Kyle R. IT is obviously a term from Blade Runner, I am guessing this is not incidental but can find little about it online.
Is this a reference to Blade Runner? Is there anything more to it?
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Sign up to join this communityIn Terminator: Genisys Pops is called "skin job" by Kyle R. IT is obviously a term from Blade Runner, I am guessing this is not incidental but can find little about it online.
Is this a reference to Blade Runner? Is there anything more to it?
The IMDb trivia page for the film says it is an allusion to Blade Runner, with one extra titbit of information added:
In one scene, Kyle Reese calls the T-800 (Arnold Schwarzenegger) a "skin job". This is a nod to Blade Runner (1982), where Rick Deckard's (Harrison Ford's) boss, Bryant (M. Emmet Walsh), refers to the Nexus 6 cyborgs as skin jobs. Schwarzenegger was considered to play Deckard before Ford landed the role.
The term "skin job" was also used in the Battlestar Galactica reboot, again as a reference to Blade Runner. In a science fiction work, it is a pretty easily recognized allusion.