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Burning Questions after the series (spoilers duh)

posted 8 years ago by VanillaLimeCoke
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After watching the series and all I still have some questions that I'm sure many think of that are never answered in recent DVD releases (or maybe I missed them)

1) who's Biff's son? We see that Griff is the grandson but who is Biff's son?

2) what about any of Tannen's wives? We never even see a girl friend Biff. The only female Tannen that is present is the grandma and we only hear her.

3) what happened to Biff's parents?

4) what happened to Biff's friends? Besides 1955 we only see them in the 1985A. Even in the original 1985 where George is a wimp we still don't see them but yet Biff is still bullying George.

5) Who exactly is this Needles character??? He just seems to be a Marty bully. But we only see him in 2015 and then the end of Part 3.

6) at the start of part 1 Loraine is saying that girls chasing boys is unheard of. She never called a boy, never chased a boy, or never sat in a parked car with a boy before. She explains the corny story of how she met George and just felt sorry for him and decided to take him out to the dance. Marty then changes that and is acting all secretive and all but it seems like already Loraine has got a crush on Marty. She even follows him home. At the dance Marty asks if it is ok that they park and Loraine says of course she's almost 18 it's not like she's never parked before. At this point Marty has only been in her life for a week and this story now seems completely different than she told in the original 1985. Was she lying in original 1985????? Seems like a bit so because she cheats on math test (deleted scene and novel). Or did Marty's purple Calvin Klein underwear suddenly just turn her on????

7) why and how on God's Green Earth did Loraine marry Biff. Clearly she says back in 1955 she wouldn't marry him if he had a million dollars. Furthermore she looks very pi$$ed in the video. How did Biff bull$hit this through????

7b) biff says third time's a charm. Who were the previous two wives?????

8) why is 1985A Biff so nasty and mean??? Loraine clearly says they can afford it. So why is Biff so nasty and mean. He never has to worry about losing a bet he should be spoiling his kids like no tomorrow. He can afford it. What doesn't make sense is that he's very pi$$ed that his kids aren't doing well. He's a bad guy. Shouldn't he actually be proud that his kids are helliens???? I think he'd be disappointed if his kids were good guys. This totally didn't make sense.
8b) Loraine says they can afford it. Does this mean she knows about the book or is just taking it for granted that Biff is undefeated at betting for whatever reason????

not really a question but a huge mistake I just noticed. The time machine time display is way off at least for part 2. In part 1 after George clocks Biff the scene cuts to Doc by the clock tower and it is 9:30pm. Scene cuts back to where Marty is saying the band must continue, long before Earth Angel plays. In part 2 Marty gets the book and then runs into the gym whilst the band is playing Earth Angel. During this there's a cut scene where we see the time display displaying 9:28pm. Afterwards a lot of action follows until Marty burns the book 2 miles away from the school. Driving does occur here. Doc gets zapped by lightening at 9:44pm. Marty then has to run 2 miles back into town and arrives there by foot 20 minutes later. According to THE FUGITIVE a person can travel on foot 4-6 miles per hour (barring injury). Marty had to be going +6 miles per hour to do this because a few minutes pass between Doc getting zapped, Western Union arriving, and part of the letter being read. But that's only barring 9:44pm. In a side by side video it seems like the real time we saw for part 2 was about 7 minutes slow. Therefore Marty must have ran 2 miles in 10 minutes. Damn. Back in school it took me about 12 minutes at best to just run a mile.

[–] TxMike 8 years ago

Burning answer ... it is all fiction for fun, try not to take it so seriously and analyze it as if it were a NASA project.

Doc

[–] McFly_2015 8 years ago

1) it’s never stated. Griff could even be the product of Biff’s daughter but with the same last name (ie deadbeat dad). We only see Biff hang around the McFly residence but he’d have to have had Griffs’ parent by then

2) we don’t see much of Biff’s personal life in any version of 1985 except the biffhoric one. Again it’s never stated any details about Griffs parent but since Griff is roughly the same age as Marty Jr. and Biff similar age to George, presumably Griff’s parent is around Marty’s age. Marty was five when George was murdered in the alternate timeline so it’s likely that parent was already conceived or born by then. When Lorraine tells Biff they should make better lives for their children, his response was “lets get something straight, Marty is YOUR kid not MINE”. That kind of implies Biff has at least one child of his own

3) what happened to Biff's parents? Never stated in the film but in 2010 Bob Gale wrote a video game. Biff’s father Kid Tannen was prominent in it. He was a mobster and eventually goes to prison. It is stated Biff is an only child except for an alternate present in which Kid never gets arrested and Biff has two younger brothers.

4) original timeline we only see Biff for one scene. Even the ‘good timeline’ we only see him at the McFly residence working so they could still be his friends or maybe not

5) Marty’s not a wimp like his father and son so not exactly bullied but he seems like a colleague, maybe a musical rival. He clearly figured out his chicken flaw.

6) the creators talked about it. They wanted to explore how parents have done things their kids would never dream of and they wanted to answer the question every kid likely asks at some point “what were my parents like at my age?” The short answer is she was either lying in 1985 or forgot what she was like before she met George.

7) Biff murdered George in 1973 (she didn’t know Biff pulled the trigger) and they married the same year. Lorraine was likely desparate to provide for her children. In the original script for the second film, the McFly’s are not well off financially in 1967, George is off attending college and Lorraine still lives with her parents with Dave and Linda (marty is not born yet).

7b) Again we don’t know if Biff ever gets married in the original or good timelines so it’s possible he married the same woman before Lorraine. We see a picture of him with Marilyn Monroe, maybe he married her?

8) Biff is a jerk, he doesn’t care about Lorraines kids. Even Lorraine whom he supposedly always loved he seems to be cheating on with those girls in the hot tub and he does abuse her physcally.
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8b) Lorraine knows they have money. Biff has business ventures too. I can’t imagine he told her or anyone about the book, it would hurt his ego if it got out that he was not self made

[–] hurricanehorton 8 years ago

Questions 1,2 and 3 are hardly burning questions. Knowing who Biff's sons were, or who he marries in the future isn't necessary to the plot, so it's not reveleaed. You might as well ask what Biff's favourite breakfast cereal is. They don't have to tell you everything about a character, especially when that knowledge makes no difference to the plot of the film.

4) what happened to Biff's friends? Again, not essential to the plot. Apart from the alternate 1985, we don't see much of Biff's personal life in the present. Maybe they are still friends, maybe they lost touch after George decked him. Doesn't really matter either way.

5) Who exactly is this Needles character??? Probably just a class mate of Marty's. Marty spent most of the first move in 1955, so we don't really see any of his classmates other than Jennifer. In 2015, Jennifer recognises Needles, so we are supposed to understand he's just some jerk that they both know. Doesn't really need more explanation than that.

6) at the start of part 1 Loraine is saying that girls chasing boys is unheard of. She never called a boy, never chased a boy, or never sat in a parked car with a boy before. And? That was the whole point. She acted over protective of her own children, but you discover she wasn't so innocent when she was their age herself. That was the whole point of her character. You might as well ask why Doc was a scientist.

7) why and how on God's Green Earth did Loraine marry Biff. Clearly she says back in 1955 she wouldn't marry him if he had a million dollars. Furthermore she looks very pi$$ed in the video. How did Biff bull$hit this through???? Biff didn't just have money, he owned the police and managed to murder her husband without repercussion. He may have threatened or bullied her into marriage, she obviously didn't marry for love. The whole; "I wouldn't marry you if you had a million dollars" line was meant as dramatic irony, because the audience knew otherwise.

7b) biff says third time's a charm. Who were the previous two wives????? Does it matter?

8)why is 1985A Biff so nasty and mean??? Loraine clearly says they can afford it. So why is Biff so nasty and mean. He never has to worry about losing a bet he should be spoiling his kids like no tomorrow. He can afford it. What doesn't make sense is that he's very pi$$ed that his kids aren't doing well. He's a bad guy. Shouldn't he actually be proud that his kids are helliens???? I think he'd be disappointed if his kids were good guys. This totally didn't make sense. What doesn't make sense? You think everybody who is rich / financially stable is automatically a good person? Why would it make more sense for a bully and a cheat to suddenly become a saint, just because he won a lot of money?

8b) Loraine says they can afford it. Does this mean she knows about the book or is just taking it for granted that Biff is undefeated at betting for whatever reason???? Lorraine doesn't know about the book, but she knows her husband has won a lot of money at betting. Biff has become a celebrity due to his winnings, they even have a museum dedicated to his 'achievements' in their home town. How would she not know of his wealth?

[–] vwvoyager 8 years ago

6) Um she was making herself look good regardless of how she acted as a teenager. You think your mother is going to tell you 'I acted like a slut'?

[–] avortac4 (3505) 3 years ago

"1) who's Biff's son? We see that Griff is the grandson but who is Biff's son?
"

More likely.. "How can BIFF have a son?? Who's Biff's GF/WIFE/LOVER/HOOKER?"

Also, why are you so interested in the villain(s)??

Ah, you can't spell 'Lorraine' correctly, never mind, it's all clear now.