813: Spiritual Sequel

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Tv & Film, Leisure, Arts

4.7 • 704 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2026

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

We complete our run through blades with “Blade Runner 2049,” a late sequel in which Ryan Gosling plays a replicant detective searching for an explosive secret that could change everything… and is unsurprisingly tied to characters from “Blade Runner.” We discuss why a replicant might need a holographic girlfriend, Jared Leto’s eyes, and once again, if Deckard is a replicant or not and why that really doesn’t matter....

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 813, April 2026.
0:09.8	Welcome back everybody to The Incomparable.
0:12.8	I am your host, Jason Snell, and we are concluding our three-episode block of revenge for not being told that we hadn't done Blade Runner on the incomparable
0:25.6	by doing Blade Runner twice. And then this episode, which is about the sequel Blade Runner, 2049.
0:35.6	Let me introduce my panelists who are here to talk about this 2017 film set in 2049 as opposed
0:43.2	to the 1982 film set in 2019.
0:47.5	Anyway, Dan Morin is the one who brought all of this up.
0:51.2	And here we are.
0:52.6	Hi, Dan.
0:54.1	Jason. Summer of Blade Runner. it's here early it's it's
0:57.0	it's like a it's summer weather in the spring i guess yeah i mean we could keep at this or we
1:03.0	could get a drink oh that's a good uh good reference there Monty Ashley is also here
1:08.3	hi Monty um I don't oh I did write down one line of dialogue from this movie, so I will say it now. Because we never lie. All right. I also wrote the next sentence, she says, which is, I'm going to tell Wallace you tried to shoot me first. Sorry, go ahead. All right. Eric An signs here. Hi. I'm not just like a real girl.
1:28.6	I want to assure you I am a real girl.
1:31.5	And John Syracuse.
1:33.0	Hello.
1:34.1	Who are at the grubs?
1:37.4	I'm kind of hungry.
1:39.0	I got to say, Jason, I did not really, I don't think I really clocked until you said it that this movie is from
1:47.7	2017, because to me, this movie is a movie that came out like a couple of years ago and I just
1:52.3	didn't get to yet.
1:53.7	Yeah, exactly.
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