We've all asked why they took Jennifer to the future with them (Doc has a lame reason).
But why did they carry her out of the car once they arrived?
Everything that happens, happens because of that.
Bales of laser discs are more comfortable than a Delorean car seat?
Lol I always thought it was odd. It really makes no sense.
Marty in 2015: "This alley where she goes."
Marty in 1885: "Man, I can't believe we just left her on her porch."
Why do they go to the future at all?
Why doesent Doc just say "Hey Marty, I've been to the future , got a couple of cool upgrades on the DeLorean, and by the way , your kids turn out to be assholes , try to bring em up a bit better"
Or just fix the problem himself.
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At the very least... why is Doc in such a hurry? And why did he need to time their arrival to right before Marty Jr's decision?
Hell, Doc could've explained the entire situation and hatched a plan with Marty (and Jennifer??) over as much time as they wanted...then if they really wanted, could've arrived to 2015 the day before, two days before, or even a week before to excuse the plan. Just seems unnecessarily rushed for no reason on Docs part.
exactly.
They say "idiotic decisions by characters are not plot holes"
But when the Professor who thinks " 4th dimensionally" does this!?
Rushing when you have a time machine is just . dumb.
Marty even says "I've got a time machine! as much time as I want!"
Marty could've said "Hey Doc, you're not thinking 4th dimensionally. Lets take jen home , have breakfast , you can tell me all about it. In fact , can you come back on monday ? We're taking the truck to the lake and I think I might get lucky"
It's because the ending of Back to the Future was originally only a gag. It wasn't a genuine set up for a sequel, so when they came to do the sequel they had to write themselves out of a hole -- they had no idea what to do with the Jennifer character, but they had to do something.
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I always thought that they could have totally rewritten that plan for the sequel with Doc actually using the premise of the kid's plight to convince Marty and Jennifer to travel to the future for a whole different reason.
Yeah. They could have. He could have been lying. They could have thought up an actual reason for Jennifer to need to be there. That might've been stronger.
After all, the reason they're in the future isn't all that important to the film, is it? They just get all that stuff out of the way, take a look around at 2015 and then get on with the main part of the plot. That stuff is literally only there because that's what they wrote in the first film, and they felt they had to follow through on it.