When he was lying on the steps. I love the fact that the ending was understated and ambivalent. I don't "need" to know what he was thinking, I just want to know other people's ideas about it.
sharehe probably felt his whole life was a lie. Kinda echoing Deckard's feeling at the end of first blade runner.
shareI think he was feeling a sense of completion for once, 'mission accomplished' due to connecting Deckard with his daughter. Like his 'life' was worth something after all in the end.
shareNot knowing does the ending justice. I mean so much could’ve been going through his head in those last moments, including Joi and the love he and she had for one another.
That said, what I get from it is a sense of completion as well. For starters, he must’ve felt relieved that he proved to be human, or more like, better than human. Helping Deckard get connected with his daughter was obviously a meaningful thing to do, but it was a “tiny piece of the puzzle.” By questioning his purpose in life and putting himself at greater risk, he potentially helped his people be set free and so ultimately he saw that his “soulless” existence had meaning after all. At the same time, considering he spent his life hunting his own, he had to feel a sense of irony.
It’s a beautiful ending.
He thought my memories lost like tears in the snow.... given they pulled the same music from the original for that scene in particular I halfway expected him to say something like that.
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