This is why the stupid, tacked-on ending doesn't make any sense. It's almost as if someone wanted to just 'tie loose ends in the happiest way possible' without considering the implications.
There's another Marty now, living the life where Doc is dead, he doesn't have a truck, Biff is a bully, his dad is a loser, his mom is alcoholic, his family is dysfunctional and they have the most cheap and tacky furniture and decorations possible.
But hey, at least they still live in that same, tiny house.
It wouldn't be too hard for Marty 1 to adjust to his 'better' family, I reckon' - after the initial shock and realization that they have 0.0 memories together, he would learn to cope and make new memories. So what if his memories get mixed in his mind, he knows what happened and why. Maybe he'll shed a tear for his old family he'll never see again, but the new family (really the same family in different mode/version) is similar enough and he's old enough to even 'leave the nest' soon, so it shouldn't be a big deal.
What's a bigger deal is how Jennifer can ever forgive Marty forgetting -everything- they've done together. Marty's friends, schoolmates, teachers.. no shared memories, completely different ones for both sides. Marty is going to be one that looks insane, though. There's no way Jennifer will stay with this 'memory-hole Marty'.
In any case, Marty might not actually GO insane, but because of his 'weird memory problems', he might have to go through 'psychiatric evaluations' and such, and have to start taking some medications, and it's probably downhill from there (no wonder this movie stopped where it did..)
Think how miserable Marty 2 is, though.. not only is everyone either dead or crazy, and he has lost his beloved truck in ADDITION to the same problem... It's Marty 2 I would worry about.
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gtmufc (46)
3 years ago
Huh? But there isn't a "Marty 2" in another timeline, living that life of misery you're talking about... as you can see near the end of the movie, when Marty sees Doc and "Marty 2" get confronted by the Libyans, "Marty 2" gets transported back to 1955, and basically is now wiped out of that 1985 timeline forever. Only one Marty exists from that point forward.
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BeenSavage (563)
3 years ago
OP is framing this in the context of a multiverse in which BTTF and it's rules of time travel are not based upon. There's only one timeline that's in constant flux.
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