Comments on: 7(ish) Things I’ve Always Wondered about: Back To The Future

By: Kyle Bown

Kyle Bown — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:28:01 +0000

“Sometime I’ve always wondered. If George prevented the rape in the altered (Lone Pine Mall) time line did he fail to do so in the original Twin Pines Mall time line?”

I don’t think it happened at all in the original timeline. In the original timeline, Lorraine’s dad hit George with the car. George stuck around (when Marty got out of there ASAP). Therefore Biff doesn’t run into Lorraine getting her dress and may not even show up to the dance. There’s too many unknowns and too many small things that wouldn’t have happened. So my take is, no, there is no rape (or attempted rape) in the original tiemline.

By: -Di.

-Di. — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:16:00 +0000

FYI: updated link to Chris’ letter: http://www.nerdist.com/2009/01/an-open-letter-from-doc-brown-to-marty-mcfly/

On a side note: I wonder if anyone enjoys anything just for its own sake. These are all valid points.

I still like the movie. Perhaps it is a guilty pleasure of mine?

@Aaron: I think people tend to forget things over time. It makes sense that they would not recognize Marty of 1955 in their son.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 06:30:42 +0000

I have always thought that if Lorraine and George go ahead and name their kid Marty (after all it is the name of the guy who helped them meet) there would ultimately be some point as he grew up that they would start to realize that their son looks exactly like a guy that they once knew and was a really important person in their lives as a couple.

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What is the best fictional portrayal of time travel? - Quora — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 23:21:49 +0000

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By: Gerwalk

Gerwalk — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 01:35:32 +0000

Something, not Sometime…yesh!

By: Gerwalk

Gerwalk — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 01:33:59 +0000

Sometime I’ve always wondered. If George prevented the rape in the altered (Lone Pine Mall) time line did he fail to do so in the original Twin Pines Mall time line?

By: Bandido

Bandido — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 20:38:54 +0000

Here’s another one : Why didn’t the Doc die when he was plugging the cables and the lightning threw him to the floor ?

By: Phill

Phill — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 01:37:24 +0000

I just now listened to Chris’s appearance on Comedy And Everything Else and came over here to read this article, which is great and I mostly agree with. My only quibble is that it is 100% possible to connect a 1955 television to a 1985 video camera.

By: matt

matt — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:07:05 +0000

in response to the final side note, i believe since Marty claims to be Darth Vader from planet Vulcan, giving George the mental push he needed and thus allowing him to write the SciFi novel he had always wanted to, featuring Marty’s “creation”, both Star Trek and Star Wars cease to exist in 1985 when Marty returns.

By: tony richard

tony richard — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:37:51 +0000

If you remeber the begining of the movie when Marty goes to Docs and sees the drasticly over filled dog bowl and papers for days….Then when he meets up with Doc at the mall Marty asked Doc where he had been…Well building a time machine of course. How long to you think it takes to build a time machine???