When I first got really into Blade Runner, having first seen the original director's cut, I enjoyed the question as a puzzle to be solved. Really got into fan

When I first got really into Blade Runner, having first seen the original director's cut, I enjoyed the question as a puzzle to be solved. Really got into fan theories online and the unicorn dream was the smoking gun, and wasn't that so clever! So cool. Then I read a compelling essay online (that I can no longer find) that pointed out the entire film's thematic weight only exists if the opposite holds. I also saw the original theatrical cut and read interviews with the screenwriter and Harrison Ford and it became clear that the unicorn dream was basically a retcon by Ridley Scott and it really makes no sense for it to be there. So my version of Blade Runner is basically the final cut without the unicorn dream, that is a perfect film, ambiguous without that "smoking gun." (don't worry I read your essay...and now THAT is a fan theory)