It's amazing two people can watch the same movie and have such a different experience from it. But that's how it goes:
4. Why is Stelline the child? I don't know, because she just was? How many clues would you have considered sufficient - 3 vs 1? It was pretty clear when she started crying with K that there was more to the story with that horse carving memory. It had me suspicious of something at least.
Yeah, that's lazy plotting. 3/4 of the way through the movie we pick someone to be the saviour of replicants for no clear reason. 'Because she just was' is a shitty explanation for anything.
I don't even know if she's the savior of the replicants, she certainly can't be some great leader since she can't even leave her bubble. She's a miracle or a symbol. I don't think it's lazy plotting. She is what she is because she was the offspring, that's the only reason that's needed. It's no different than Anakin Skywalker being the chosen one. There was no fancy backstory about how he became the chosen one, he just was.
ETA you basically saw the same thing in the latest Star Wars where the little kids were pretending to be Jedi cause they heard about what Luke Skywalker did before he died. Luke is a symbol at this point to inspire future Jedi.
5. What is Stelline? Obviously she's a replicant born of at least one replicant parent (maybe two) who grows and ages like a normal human being...which is what makes her such a miracle and why Wallace is obsessed with finding her.
Obviously. Except that none of that makes any sense in the Blade Runner universe. Again, you're just expected to accept this with no explanation or reasoning. Bad writing.
It makes perfect sense because Tyrell somehow figured out how to give replicants the gift of procreation (as was explained in the movie). She's the product of that. That's huge, man basically created a whole new intelligent species that can reproduce on its own.
6. Why is Stelline/Deckard's meeting important? They weren't supposed to meet. Recall that K was supposed to kill Deckard to keep him from going offworld to be tortured (and presumably risk revealing Stelline to Wallace). K went rogue with the meeting thing, it wasn't part of the revolution's agenda.
I know they weren't supposed to meet. But usually things happen in a movie for a reason. This didn't really seem to advance the plot, or happen for a reason.
It would have been rather shitty if K had just killed Decker and that was the end of the movie. K offered Decker the chance to meet his daughter, and Stelline was going to actually meet her biological father, who she probably didn't even know existed. Or maybe it was something set up to explore in a future movie, I don't know.
7. Replicant's don't want to bother fighting for freedom unless they can have babies...the revelation that replicants were basically the same as humans and able to reproduce on their own would have earthshaking implication and serve to galvanize replicants for freedom. Stelline is basically the equivalent of Jesus Christ...of course the broader knowledge of her existence would change the entire dynamic between humans and replicants.
Sure, assuming that she actually is a replicant. Which we've been told multiple times is impossible because she ages, and because replicants can't procreate. Hence the reason that an explanation for 5 is critically important missing info in the movie.
Still doesn't explain why the replicants are waiting to revolt though. "We're being treated like shit all the time, but there's no point doing anything about it 'cause I can't have a kid." - Makes no sense at all.
I don't understand what you don't get about this one. She's the offspring of a female replicant. And as I said in 5, Tyrell figured out how to get them to be able to procreate. That knowlege was lost in the blackout and Wallace is trying to figure it out. It doesn't violate anything in the blade runner universe. It was very clear in the original that Tyrell was trying to create more and more lifelike replicants. Reproduction is a natural next step. Tyrell basically created life - he became God. And Wallace wants that power since he clearly has a God complex.
All revolutions start somewhere, I assume the idea is that enough replicants are fed up with being slaves and treated like shit, they probably have a lot of sympathizers amongst humans as well. I assume the political system would be a lot more sympathetic to the cause of replicants if it found out they could create life (or could be born) just like humans (claire underwood hinted at this before she was killed). Now they're viewed more or less as biological robots with preprogrammed memories. If they can be born and have their own lives and memories then they're basically another species of human and deserve rights, really not any different than the civil rights movement. Something similar to refusing to sit on the back of the bus. THe whole movie boils down to man playing God, and at what point of sentiency do his creations deserve the same rights that he affords himself.
ETA - A lot of what I like about the movie is the music and the imagery as well. I think it's an introvert's movie. Pumping Iron is my favorite movie but that's because it more or less changed the course of my life, and is more documentary than movie. My favorite fiction movie is the original Conan the Barbarian. Arnold only has like ten lines in the entire movie, it's an introvert of a movie. But the music and imagery just do it for me. It's sort of like BR2049. BR2049 is like me, I can go a week without talking to a single person and be fine. BR2049 feels the same way.