Nerd Rage at The End Of The World
Mar. 21st, 2012 07:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
captain_slinkyI'm getting tired of this.
Why? Not because I believe in the 2012 "End Of The World" thing, but because it wasn't Marty McFly who went to 2015, it was *A* Marty McFly. And just because THAT Marty McFly visited *A* 2015 doesn't mean that OUR timeline will make it all the way to OUR 2015.
Follow me down the rabbit hole here...
The original Back To The Future is *our* world. It's a world where George McFly is a dweeb, Biff Tannen is a jerk, and Marty dreams of taking his teenage girlfriend up to the mountains in a brand new truck so they can zip their sleeping bags together because THAT'S the power of love.
But when Marty got in that time machine and traveled back to 1955, he created TWO different Marty McFly's... possibly even more!
Because now there's ALSO a Marty McFLy that grew up as the son of a well-respected and presumably wealthy Sci-Fi novelist! His family has Biff Tannen as some sort of butler/errand-boy doing auto detailing! A completely different Marty McFly who, for some unknown reason, was helping a crazy scientist in the middle of the night at the Lone Pine Mall and jumped in to a time machine for an unknown destination (we can only assume it was 1955, but that's a conversation for another time*).
All we know from the Back To The Future trilogy is that *A* Marty McFly traveled to an alternate timeline where Earth has survived the Apocalypse of 2012**, which is kind of like saying "I know that all jellybeans are red because I just picked one out of this giant bag of assorted jelly beans and IT was red".
*Maybe in the Rich Marty McFly's timeline, Doc Brown never got nostalgic and typed in November 1955 and instead kept the original setting for October 2015.
**Maybe one of the many Marty McFly's created by all this timeline tinkering went back and created the Mayan Calendar as a warning to future generations regarding the Apocalypse of 2012, thus ensuring that OUR Marty was able to travel to an unapocalypsed 2015
Why? Not because I believe in the 2012 "End Of The World" thing, but because it wasn't Marty McFly who went to 2015, it was *A* Marty McFly. And just because THAT Marty McFly visited *A* 2015 doesn't mean that OUR timeline will make it all the way to OUR 2015.
Follow me down the rabbit hole here...
The original Back To The Future is *our* world. It's a world where George McFly is a dweeb, Biff Tannen is a jerk, and Marty dreams of taking his teenage girlfriend up to the mountains in a brand new truck so they can zip their sleeping bags together because THAT'S the power of love.
But when Marty got in that time machine and traveled back to 1955, he created TWO different Marty McFly's... possibly even more!
Because now there's ALSO a Marty McFLy that grew up as the son of a well-respected and presumably wealthy Sci-Fi novelist! His family has Biff Tannen as some sort of butler/errand-boy doing auto detailing! A completely different Marty McFly who, for some unknown reason, was helping a crazy scientist in the middle of the night at the Lone Pine Mall and jumped in to a time machine for an unknown destination (we can only assume it was 1955, but that's a conversation for another time*).
All we know from the Back To The Future trilogy is that *A* Marty McFly traveled to an alternate timeline where Earth has survived the Apocalypse of 2012**, which is kind of like saying "I know that all jellybeans are red because I just picked one out of this giant bag of assorted jelly beans and IT was red".
*Maybe in the Rich Marty McFly's timeline, Doc Brown never got nostalgic and typed in November 1955 and instead kept the original setting for October 2015.
**Maybe one of the many Marty McFly's created by all this timeline tinkering went back and created the Mayan Calendar as a warning to future generations regarding the Apocalypse of 2012, thus ensuring that OUR Marty was able to travel to an unapocalypsed 2015
