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Maybe this is why it’s not brought up in the film, maybe Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale realized this and decided to sidestep trying to explain it (the franchise was pretty confusing at it was at this point.)Īll of this aside, I’ve always considered the first film in the franchise to be pretty tight and free of these pesky time travel loopholes. Take a part off of the version Marty brought back to fix the one Doc hid and you don’t get into this displacement effect. As soon as you removed the part, it wouldn’t be there in 1955 for Marty to find intact right? But, the opposite isn’t true. If you took a part off the one Doc hid in the cave to fix the one Marty brought back, it wouldn’t work. Just using the basic logic of time travel, though the two can co-exist in the same time, there are special rules for say using parts of one to fix the other. Time Travel is a fickle story element that is nearly impossible to “get right”. Over the years I’ve realized that this isn’t a huge revelation, if only because I’ve become more jaded as I age and would be the first person to point out that with all the twists and turns of the 2nd and third BTTF films there were bound to be plot-holes. The one that doc hid in the cave? It’s obviously still there (it would have to be for Marty to find it in 1955.) Thus two DeLoreans and no need to make some time traveling train. Doc hides the DeLorean in a cave for Marty to find while he’s stuck in 1955 (he gets that nifty telegram delivered moments after Doc is whisked away to alert him of this.) So Marty find the 1950’s Doc, they uncover the DeLorean and fix it up (because of the years worth of dry rot to the tires, etc.) Marty then takes this one back to 1885. So at the end of BTTF 2 Doc and the time machine get struck y lightning and sent back to 1885. I was sitting on the edge of my toilet reading a copy of Starlog, there was an entry in the letters column complaining about BTTF 3, I freaked out as my dad came into the bathroom, yelled at him to knock first, and when I went back to flipping through the magazine I had a revelation! A vision! A picture in my head! A picture of two DeLoreans existing in 1885 simultaneously! This is what makes time travel movies implausible: loopholes! In all seriousness, the events described previously actually happened, I was in the bathroom reading the letters column in an issue of Starlog when I had a moment of clarity and realized that there are actually two DeLoreans in BTTF 3 at a point in the story when they desperately need another time machine.
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Yes! Of course! November 10th, 1990! That was the day I discovered my first time travel loophole in the Back to the Future movie trilogy continuity.
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November 10th, 1990, a red-letter date in my personal fandom of the Back to the Future franchise.