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From: jmd@rduxb.UUCP (Joseph M. Dakes)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: One more BTTF question
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Date: Thu, 5-Sep-85 17:07:20 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep  5 17:07:20 1985
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> Here is yet another BTTF question, and one that I consider the most obvious
> problem with the storyline: If Marty, during the revised progression of 
> history, is both the son of Mr. & Mrs. McFly AND the person who had such a
> profound impact on the revised progression of the lives of the parents &
> Biff, certainly he should look VERY familiar to the three of them (after the
> second go-around)! Yet at the end of the movie, there is NO indication that
> anyone (but myself) recognized him from their new pasts!

As one person on the net had pointed out earlier, Marty met his parents 30
years ago and he only spent a couple days with them.  It would be pretty 
hard to remember someone after all that time.

However, if Marty's parents did recognize him from 30 years ago then they
would have recognized him long before he came back to the future.  They
would have noticed the resemblence say when Marty was 12 years old or so
not just instantaneously because remember, Marty grew up with them he 
didn't just appear one day.  Hence no indication on that one day when 
Marty came home at the end of the movie.  They did buy Marty that 4X4 for
a present though, so he must have been a favorite for some reason or other.

												Joseph M. Dakes
												AT&T Bell Laboratories
												Reading, PA
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