THE FOLLOWING IS A SPECIAL GUEST BLOG FROM "BIG" DAVE FRIEDMAN:
I first saw Back to the Future in 1986 at a friend’s house. I loved the movie, but for over 20 years something has bothered me about the film. No, I am not talking about how Marty McFly's girlfriend Jennifer was portrayed by Claudia Wells in BTTF 1 and Elisabeth Shue in BTTF 2-3. I want answers as to how the friendship of Marty and Doc came to be. No explanation was ever given. What could a high school senior and a wacky 50 year old scientist have in common? I have thought about this for quite some time and have come up with a few possible explanations.
1. Marty met Doc at a musical instrument shop when Doc bought the giant amplifier. Marty and Doc starting talking and Doc agreed to let Marty use the amp in exchange for help on some science experiments.
2. Perhaps Doc was once a science teacher at Marty’s school. How else would Principal Strickland know about him? (In case you forgot, he mentions Doc Brown when Marty and Jennifer arrive late at school)
3. We all know that near the end of the movie Marty writes Doc a letter explaining that Libyan terrorists will kill him the night that he sends Marty back in time. Doc shreds the letter, but tapes it back together as we see when Marty returns from 1955. Because Marty was in 1955, he altered history so Doc would seek him out in the 80s. This is a simple explanation and makes sense. But wait!!!! Marty went back in time and since he altered history, many things would have changed – including his own life!!! Marty arrives back in 1985 about ten minutes early, witnessing Doc being shot and another Marty driving the DeLorean back into time. Here comes the big WTF moment. What the hell happens to the SECOND Marty who goes back in time near the end of the movie? Marty 2’s life is drastically different than Marty 1’s life. When Marty 1 left his father George was Biff’s personal bitch, his mother Lorraine was an alcoholic, and his siblings were losers. Now in the new 1985 they’re all successful. Biff is even washing George’s car! Marty 1 is confused and even asks his brother, now wearing a suit instead of a Burger King uniform, what’s going on. Marty obviously has no memory of anything Marty 2 did. Won’t his family and friends find it odd that Marty 1 will have no memory of any events that have taken place? Not to mention, does Marty 2 just evaporate? Does he go back to 1955? With Doc knowing the consequences of the time machine, does he deliberately make Marty 2’s DeLorean a fake and stash the plutonium somewhere else, knowing full well that Marty 1 will return in 1985 with a working time machine? The thought of this makes my head hurt, so perhaps it is a question better left unanswered. Chop, let’s go watch Cash Cab.
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