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From: toddv@copper.UUCP (Todd Vierheller)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: One more BTTF question
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Date: Fri, 6-Sep-85 17:52:07 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep  6 17:52:07 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!

(Sorry about the weird mail.)

I wondered about this myself, and here's what I came up with.  Marty was only
part of their lives for one week.  Considering the limited exposure and the
passage of time, their is no reason they should recognize him.  In addition,
they watched him slowly grow into his present looks from his original state
as a newborn.  Subconciously they would probably resist the idea of
"recognizing" him.

                                   Todd Vierheller
                                   Software Development Products
                                   Tektronix, Inc.  (Aloha Oregon)
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