replicant n. 1

The big religious boys said that replicants, no matter how human, were objects, only God could make people.

The Captain of a supply ship…takes pity on the lonely man and on one of his trips leaves him a perfect replica robot woman….Corry is, at first, repulsed by the replicant but ultimately comes to love her.

He got into this crazy stuff about…replicants.

Like replicants for androids, the deathkiss word ‘superhero’ is avoided altogether for the techy euphemism ‘mutant,’ even though the one thing that all the homines superiores seem to have in common is really dumb comiesy superpowers that could only have been invented by a Marvel bullpensman on a bad caffeine high: controlling weather, doing ice sculptures, projecting something called ‘optic blasts’ (which have given generations of writers migraines of their own trying to rationalize).

The hero of the movie, a defense research scientist named Spencer Olham…is accused of not being who he believes himself to be by a ruthless security agent, Major Hathaway…. Hathaway claims that Olham is actually a replicant smart bomb.

‘We have one new replicant with us on the ship.’ ‘Welcome new replicant!’ we say, and there is more rejoicing.

As far as Strindberg was concerned they weren’t even human. These were just replicants. And like all lab rats, their feelings were not a matter for his concern.