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ElMaruecan82 — 10 years ago(November 05, 2015 04:00 AM)
Marty:
You know Doc, it's gonna be a hell of long walk back to Hill Valley from here.
Doc:
It's still the safest plan. After all, we can't risk sending you back to a populated area, or to a spot that's geographically unknown.
You don't want to crash into some trees that once existed in the past.
This is all completely open country! So you'll have plenty of run-out space when you arrive.
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Doc:
The bridge will exist in 1985. It's safe and still in use. Therefore, as long as we get the DeLorean up to 88 miles per hour before we hit the edge of the ravine, we'll instantaneously arrive at a point in time where the bridge is completed. We'll have track under us and coast safely across the ravine!
But is theren't a huge risk to arrive at a point in time where a train will come or crash into a train that would exist at the very spot spot the De Lorean will appear? Which almost happened surely, the Doc should have anticipated this risk.
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Joc Spader — 1 year ago(March 05, 2025 12:46 AM)
Doc's crazy. He would have antipicated it because he almost crashed himself in part 2 when he first arrived in 2015.
He had Marty travel at 88mph in a 20mph zone on Main Street giving him no time to slam on the breaks crashing into the movie theater at the end of the block.
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crissttigaldames — 10 years ago(January 05, 2016 11:46 AM)
It's indeed a risk they continuosly take, especially when travelling to the future. He can't know what's going to be there. Hell, he could arrive in the middle of a nuclear war for all he knows.
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Son_Of_A_Bitch_Must_Pay — 9 years ago(September 07, 2016 02:15 AM)
Just think about the idea that Doc had it all planned/calculated out to send Marty back with just enough time to get out of the car safely before the train in 1985 would be coming through, not leaving Marty enough time to save it an insuring it gets destroyed like he wanted.
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mikeyg24 — 9 years ago(September 08, 2016 10:27 AM)
I think with the latter example you quoted they simply didn't have a choice. Even though it was a risk the only viable way to get the DL up to 88mph was to use the train.
Although it does make me think about the end of BTTF1. When Doc drops Marty off he goes straight to the future. How did he know Lyon Estates still existed in 2015? For all he knew it could have been knocked and apartments or a mall now stands where the street used to be. In fact how did Doc know 2015 was in the middle of WWIII? Guess you just gotta take the chance.
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strntz — 9 years ago(September 16, 2016 09:52 AM)
We can't overthink these fantasy tales.
I'm an engineer, and if I allowed myself to sweat these details, I could never enjoy these types of movies.
For example (using the scene you mentioned) it would be impossible for 1985 train track to be in precisely the same place as it was in 1885. A fraction of an inch off and the DeLorean derails in a spectacular 88 plus mph fireball when it arrives back in the future.
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