I forget the name of the site, but there's a man who writes about "anomalies" in time travel movies, based on theories of how time works. There are terms like "infinity loop," "sawtooth snap," and "N-jump" that I was trying to understand. If you assume just ONE timeline that moves in a single dimension (always forwards, but only fast enough to stay in the "present"), then anything from the past that somehow got changed would have to cause "ripples" into future events for those time periods to make sense. I tend to think that the past doesn't change, but I'm not sure what that says about the future. The future might not exist yet, but it doesn't all have to be "scripted" or impossible to "change."
A clue to how time might work are the prophecies in the Bible. It can be strange how you'll be reading about something that hasn't happened yet, but if you trace every event that hadn't happened yet when it was originally written, those events still happened that exact way! To my limited mind, that doesn't really mean the future already exists, but that God lets people make choices, while also knowing which choice we'll make in that moment. That would make it possible to describe something before it happens, even if that event hasn't happened from the perspective of us living inside the timeline.
There's even a neat story about Alexander the Great that I've probably started to forget. It was predicted that he would ruin cities in Lebanon and possibly what's now Iraq. Pretty much, he'd do that, but not touch Jerusalem. The reason was that God caused Alexander to have a dream that a priest would come out to meet his army. The priest read those prophecies to him, and he either figured out or assumed that was what he should do next. It's a neat example of how people can know without any doubts that God interacts with history. It's not like a "higher organizing principle" made something explode and just waits to see what randomly evolves.
Getting to the actual movies, I only caught the last scene of part one, and then most of the second and third movies. Once you get to the second movie, there were really weird things happening. From what I can tell, it was the first and only time they made a future trip, other than returning back to the correct/present time/year (late 1985) from an earlier trip to a time in the past. Basically, if Doc went further than October 21, 2015 (did I get that date correct?), how did he know that Marty, Jr. had gone to jail? If you think about the one timeline theory, Marty, Sr. had already arrived in the future on 10/21/2015 and changed the events that were going to result in his son going to jail. Therefore, wouldn't that have rippled forward, meaning Doc couldn't have discovered the newspaper headline that motivated him to travel back to 1985?
It gets really messy when you figure Biff into the plot. If he had been in high school during the year 1955, without skipping or repeating any grades, he'd be in his 40s by 1985, which was when he saw the hovering DeLorean disappear. You mean to say that, thirty years later, in his 70s, he knew that seeing a modified DeLorean must mean that it was a time machine? I guess there were other things I'm not mentioning (seeing two of Marty, or Doc Brown talking about the almanac).
Once Biff steals the car and tries to change things about the past, does it make sense that he was able to arrive back in the same version of 2015 as when he left? Under that altered timeline, it seemed like Marty was in boarding school, and Doc was in a mental hospital. Therefore, how would there be a time machine, or Doc allowing it to be seen in 1985 by Biff, so that he would even know what was happening in 2015?
If the only thing 2015 Biff had to do was get the almanac to a younger version of himself, why did he travel to 1955? I'm not sure if the script answered that. I do remember how the almanac was dated 1950-2000. I also remember a subplot about how the time circuits were malfunctioning. If Biff wasn't smart enough to know how to set the calendar/clock, then it might've just gone back to a previous destination (like a GPS?), but wasn't the last destination from 1985? It seems like, the closer to 1950 that he gave the book to himself, the more valuable it would be for gambling (what about the years after 2000, though?). That just seemed like a convenient way to create drama and make it so that Doc and Marty had to avoid their "other selves" from 1955. Yet Biff talking to his younger self didn't cause a problem?
When you start to think about that newest version of 1955, who all was there at the same time? You'd have 1955 Biff, and 2015 Biff. You'd have 1985 "Calvin Klein" and 1985 Marty in the leather jacket. You had 1955 Doc and some version of Doc who had lived in the future and got plastic surgery plus a new spleen. Did 2015 Biff ever think of trying to sabotage something about the dance or prevent either version of Marty from getting back to 1985? I'm not sure if he was thinking about how those other things needed to happen a certain way for his 1985 self to see the time machine.
Based on the pages about time theories, it's hard to tell what might really happen if a version of time travel is possible. Would people want to go backward or forwards? Once you go backwards, does time continue without you? Is it arrogant to think that time couldn't move forward without you? Is it even possible to go forward again to the moment when you left? Would that create two of you? If you tried to arrive right at the moment of the move backwards, would that put you in a loop where you go right back to the past destination? The idea would be to get back in a way where you don't stop existing or create a gap in your timeline.
Overall, I just think that, if time travel movies were created in the first place, that people tend to want to be somewhere else (somewhen else?) than experiencing this moment and the next moment. You don't really HAVE to erase something from the past, because I think there's usually a way to heal from the present. Traveling to the future would just make me MORE anxious, because obviously, things have to happen for me to be ready for the future. If I just showed up there, I wouldn't have the benefit of that other life experience.
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