{"id":2884,"date":"2011-03-03T18:44:19","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T18:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2884"},"modified":"2011-03-03T18:44:19","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T18:44:19","slug":"will_the_unicor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2884","title":{"rendered":"Will The Unicorn Make A Cameo?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like most geeks, I&#8217;ve watched <i>Blade Runner<\/i> more times than I care to count. And not once in the course of those innumerable viewings did I ever think &#8220;What this movie really needs is a sequel. Or maybe a prequel.&#8221; But that&#8217;s the difference between me and the <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/#%215775760\/what-can-we-expect-from-the-new-blade-runner-movie-we-asked-the-producers\">Hollywood producers who are planning on turning <i>Blade Runner<\/i> into a franchise<\/a>. I have no interest in watching <i>Blade Runner: The Early Years<\/i>. I have no interest in watching <i>Blade Runner II: The Wrath of Deckard<\/i>, in which our grizzled protagonist takes on a whole fleet of attack ships off the shoulder of Orion. Actually, that might be a fun movie, but it wouldn&#8217;t be <i>Blade Runner<\/i>. <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have anything against franchises. I&#8217;ll gladly pay money for the next <i>Star Trek<\/i> sequel. But Blade Runner works well as a self-contained story. It doesn&#8217;t need a continuation or a prelude. <\/p>\n<p>Now, <i>Galaxy Quest<\/i>, on the other hand&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like most geeks, I&#8217;ve watched Blade Runner more times than I care to count. And not once in the course of those innumerable viewings did I ever think &#8220;What this movie really needs is a sequel. Or maybe a prequel.&#8221; But that&#8217;s the difference between me and the Hollywood producers who are planning on turning <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2884' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-Kw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}