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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
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Subject: Re: Back to the Future (spoiler)
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Date: Tue, 30-Jul-85 18:48:26 EDT
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Summary: It isn't multiple timelines



A number of articles have appeared recently trying to explain BttF
in terms of multiple timelines.  THIS DOESN'T WORK.  When Marty starts
changing the past, the effect is immediate (although slow) on what
has been brought back -- initially the picture, and eventually Marty
himself.

The only way I can see to reconcile this with the ending is to assume
that the Marty who remembers his father being a wimp, etc., will fade
into the one who is the result of his intervention.  This process
simply hasn't become noticeable yet at the end of the movie.