#i also like to think in this version marty first meets doc when he's 13 instead of 14 (which i think is the most widely accepted age)
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Hi! I just wanted to say that I love your BTTF art and your weredoc AU! It's so whimsical and engaging!
I wanted to know--if you ever thought about it--how did Doc and Marty meet? I've always imagined it as somewhat of a random meeting where little Marty is like 'you blow stuff up? Cool, I'm in!' And then Doc is suddenly a father figure, hehe I want to know what you think! :)
oh thank you! i'm glad you think so :D
how i think doc and marty met is probably the most accepted one of marty breaking into his garage one day bc i think it's funny hahaha. specifically the version where needles and co dare him to break in and steal something bc i don't think marty would just break into a guy's house out of pure curiosity, even if said guy is the town mad scientist. i like to think that they waited until doc left the house to walk einie and needles and co told marty that they'll tell him to get out if they see him coming back, but when he actually came back they all chickened out and left marty to dry LMAO. so doc comes back, sees a gaggle of middle schoolers very inconspicuously hightail it off his property, and walks in thinking he's done with trespassers for the day only to find another one hiding in his closet afraid that he's going to get dissected or something, and usually when kids break into his house (a non-zero occurence, unfortunately) he plays into the mad scientist bit and yes-ands the rumors about him until they leave, but marty immediately started apologizing and explaining that it wasn't even his idea and looked to be on the verge of tears so doc just ended up feeling bad for the kid and offered him a job walking einie instead. and they've been hanging out ever since :D
#back to the future#bttf#the comics have a variation of the “breaking and entering” thing so it's semi-supported in dubious canon BUT i dislike it#it's a tad too convoluted for my tastes#plus in it it's doc who tells marty to call him that whereas i (and many others) believe that he just came to that nickname one day himself#obviously a superior vision#but i do agree w the comic that einstein liked him immediately! in my version of events einstein was never hostile to him he just beelined#for the closet bc he smelled new friend#also in this version marty's still a girl bc he hasn't figured out that bit yet. the transgender beam will come later for him#i also like to think in this version marty first meets doc when he's 13 instead of 14 (which i think is the most widely accepted age)#if only so that they have an extra year or so of being friends#kit yap session
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Did the Risk pay off?
Did you enjoy my little April Fool’s Joke? Did anyone even notice it??
Sorry about that. It’s not usually like me to joke like that, but the reason I did so was because its probably the last time I’d have the opportunity to ever pull an April Fool’s Prank about this project again. That is to say, I am very confident that by next April Fool’s Day - 2022, I’ll be long done with Season VI.
It’s a little sad to say that, but mostly triumphant on my end. There was a little truth in that 4/1 post. I Did go on a Marvel bend and rewatch the entire MCU for funzies, and I was taking a long ass time on getting out Ep. 13, but believe me. I wasn’t over or burnt out from X at all. I just needed a little time to figure out how to execute what I wanted to do properly. I’m mostly satisfied with the turnout. =D
For those of you who haven’t read S. VI - Ep. 13 yet, I highly suggest you do so, because there will be Massive Spoilers ahead. Since the tail end of Ep. 11, I set X up for a risky fanficky side-adventure. And now that I’ve committed to it and it’s officially out there, the only question that’s left to ask is... Did the risk pay off??
First, I guess I should admit that my planning for the 2nd Arc was always hazy, even after finishing up Ep. 7, when X defeated the Nightmare Zero.
I knew in Ep. 8, we were going to have a lot of Zero getting reacquainted with the gang and that I was going to have to resolve the plot hole of X5′s Bad Ending, lining up with the way he acts in X6 - as a Zero fanboy. So the returning Memory thing factored in big time.
Ep. 9 was Zero’s first mission out while X recovered. My plan was to always have X get in that portal and face Dynamo. But what would come after was a giant mystery to me.
I didn’t want X to keep bumping into to Dynamo every time he got in a portal. And I also didn’t want him to keep bumping into High Max either. All of High Max’s dialogue and interactions thus far indicated that he wants X dead, and based off of the rules I set up for the Portal Dimensions, X couldn’t just leave in the middle of a fight. That’s also not his style.
So in a way, I kind of wrote myself into a hole. I’d either have to end High Max early, (which I didn’t want to do), or I’d have to get creative.
Then something clicked out of nowhere. Something that could be very Nostalgic and Special, but would it work?? When X gets to the Fire Portal, he could face a Nightmare Vile from X1. Then in the next portals, he could face Nightmare versions of his other bullies from the rest of the games. X2 - Violen & Agile, X3 - Bit & Byte, X4 - Double... It could be great! But what purpose would it serve other than Fan Service?
It’s a great question that I’m still asking, but ultimately - my alternative was to have X face High Max prematurely and lose [where it would be very hard to have High Max spare him.] Or to have X prematurely defeat High Max, which again I really didn’t want to do. And Dynamo was way too injured to just keep taking beatings from X. That’d get very boring and annoying very fast.
So I went for it. It took 2 episodes to get there, but in Ep. 11 X took on Nightmare Vile... And honestly, I thought it was great! While he was doing that, Zero was facing Blaze Phoenix, which was equally exciting to me.
Honestly, in Ep. 12, I wanted to get right to it and call that one Nightmare Lane, but X & Zero needed to recover and I already had planned on them talking everything out, which I was putting off again and again. That episode named itself once their conversation about X5′s encounter in Antarctica really got going. I also really kinda loved that ending with X’s failure in the Inami Temple portal.
This set us up for Ep. 13, which I wanted to be an Action-Packed showstopper. So that was the plan all along for this episode, once I committed to the Nostalgic Nightmare idea. My goal was for X to get to Double, and I made it there. It worked out. But this is admittedly a very dense chapter.
Part of the point of these Nostalgic Nightmares is to show X’s growth after all this time. He’s been whining and complaining this whole time about how the Nightmare is too tough, but guess what? He’s already so much stronger than he ever was to previous threats like Vile, the X-Hunters, the Nightmare Police & Double. I felt like this could be a much-needed confidence booster for him, but also serve as a dual purpose for the bad guys to wear him down, psychologically. Any excuse I can have to make the villains banter, I’ll also take. I really like how this is all build up to Metal Shark, but will it pay off is the question? Will I be able to stick that landing? Time will tell.
I'm looking forward to writing Ep. 14. Honestly, I wanted to have a whole fight with Double and then some aftermath planned as the true closer to Ep. 13, but upon rereading, it was already dense enough. [Frankly, it probably could’ve ended when Zero was about to set off to the North Pole Area, but that’s fine.]
Also, I really surprised myself with how good X’s meet up with Phantom was. [His Rescue Reploid name in the game was the ONLY reason for these MMZ Easter eggs.] But now I’m so happy that I’ve been including them, because I’m feeling a bigger picture coming about for when I end this Season.
Levy was just this flirty inclusion to spice up the Alia & X dialogue at first. Anything else with her would be a bonus. Fef became a very necessary device to keep Hal & Kassy safe, while they’ve been stranded in the Magma Area for so long. Making him a junkie derelict was an interesting choice too. And of course, Phantom was in the Portal at the Central Museum revisit. I always had this vague sense in my mind that X was going to have a very harrowing rescue mission that kept failing at every revisit, but then he’d bump into Phantom who was holding his own and he’d get this giant sense of hope. Boom. Grainy Effect. Episode ending right there on Phantom.
But of course, in execution that couldn’t happen with the rest that I had planned and that’s fine. Still, I was surprised at their dialogue with each other. Phantom was really impressive and cool. Just the premise of this exhausted warrior, whose resigned himself to protecting himself for days, only to bump into X and consider him a fool for getting stuck here with him.
But no. Now, Double has entered the Portal. And X knows there’s a way out.
[I also never thought about the fact that Phantom would be stuck in the room with him during the fight, so now I’ve got some thinking to do.] lol
Harpy’s save will be next and I don’t mind spoiling that he’ll be in the Recycle Area. [I did my best to keep to their elements, but the X6 stages didn’t really lend for that.]
Phantom was always gonna be in the Central Museum, because that is game-dictated. Levy could’ve been in the North Pole, I suppose, but the Inami Temple is ridden with females, so it made the most sense to me to make that her domain. Fef being in the Magma Area was spot on. I love that it was his old hangout spot - Dark Haven. So teen-angsty/broody.
Harpy being in the Recycle Lab is kind of just a circumstance thing, but we’ll talk about it when we get there.
I wanted to go over the writing process to this one, but this is already getting quite lengthy. I guess I can say that it was straight forward, writing through X’s battle against Violen & Agile. I always wanted Isoc to come in right after, to give us the hint that he’s Serges 2.0. But then, that revisit to the Amazon Area got draggy... I did my best, but I had to make cuts. I liked what I did once he got in the portal. His refight with Bit & Byte was pretty cool. Bringing Marty into it was a fun choice. I did like, how X got his moment of catharsis after all. [I know there’s a real lost-opportunity with not including iX, but honestly that’d be too much. If I ever write iX again, I think it’s best if I save him for the Mega Missions series.]
This thing fell apart when I got to the Central Museum revisit. I didn’t want to write that at all... In my script, I had marks at the bottom of the doc for what he’d say in the other totems IF he revisited. And here we weeeeere. Yet again, I was in the same position as last year at this time, when I wrote out Ep. 3. I handled it better, then! Playing over and over again to find right parts of the stage I wanted to write was annoying. I bet I missed out on Rescue Reploids too, or Zombie Reploids at this point, but it’s fine. It’s been so long, they probably just died. I could always edit that in post, that X passes a bunch of dead bodies. That’d make for some spooky atmosphere.
At this point, I re-analyzed the entire chapter and decided it was high-time for Zero to wake up and go about his original directives. Time to add to the layers. It brought parts to life, for sure. It even cemented other transitions, which was really cool. I liked that I gave Douglas something else to do other than just, be there...
Once I was actually writing Zero’s stage, it did start to feel like a different episode, but I had a goal to reach and damn it, I was gonna get there! lol What’s good about this is that it moves Zero along in the stage without it being a real pain in the ass.
And that basically takes us to where the episode left off.
For the broken Central Museum part, I wrote X’s interactions with Phantom first. Then, with every Totem, I caught up to it as I could. Once the Zero layering came about, things pieced together. Same goes for any extra Villain narrations. The episode definitely started a certain way, and I wanted to keep that up as much as possible. While also having Alia commentary, when appropriate and necessary.
I like this one. There’s a decent balance amidst all the nonsense I set up for myself. And I definitely think that all these Portal Revisits are more interesting for X’s Nostalgic Nightmare encounters. It spins the premise around that they didn’t just create a Nightmare Zero, but also a Nightmare Vile, a Nightmare Violen, a Nightmare Bit, a Nightmare Byte and now a Nightmare Double. The possibilities are endless.
Yes, X’s mission is a complete side-quest, but guess what? It makes you think that if he didn’t do this, the Nightmare would be that much worse for everyone later, down the road. It’s Preventative Action. It’s pretty neat.
Also, again - every Investigator thus far has been relatively good, but mislead in thinking that X was the enemy. So once he’d explain it to them, they'd be at a standstill, and pretty much at a loss for motivation. Go figure that Zero actually battles the evil ones with Infinity Flea and Blaze Phoenix. But he’ll get a real taste for the good/mislead dilemma soon enough with Blizzard Wolfang.
Then we’ll see how I handle Metal Shark when I get there. I’m looking forward to it. I can’t believe I’m almost up to the 3rd Arc already!
But that’s exactly what I was getting at at the beginning of this rant. This is definitely gonna be my last Season. [Unless we get an X9 that suddenly ends all cliffhangers.] So with that said, I think the Nostalgic throwback was the right thing to do. Show us that growth and remind us of where he’s been in a short time span, before we end things proper in MMX’s final season.
I’m getting misty eyed thinking about it already. =P
I’ll see you next time for Episode 14.
#MMX Fanfics#Season VI Diaries#Did the Risk Pay Off?#Nightmare Revivals#2nd Arc talk#MMZ characters#Writing rant#It's almost over
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Epic Movie (Re)Watch #123 - Back to the Future Part III
Spoilers below.
Have I seen it before: Yes
Did I like it then: Yes!
Do I remember it: Yes.
Did I see it in theaters: Yes.
Was it a movie I saw since August 22nd, 2009: Yes. #385.
Format: Blu-ray
1) I like really enjoy this film and I don’t know why. In some ways it is my favorite of the trilogy (but not really, the first one is my favorite). There are just so many things I love about it. The Western genre, the greater emphasis we get on Doc, Thomas F. Wilson as Mad Dog, there are just a lot of things about this film that really work for me on a base level. Outside of the original, this is the one I watch most of the trilogy.
2) Universal decided to unveil a new logo at the start of this film because 1) it was the studio’s 75th anniversary and 2) this was their most popular series at the time. It is the rare occasion when a logo actually adds to the weight of a film, as it feels more magical and we have a greater sense of time than we did with past logos.
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3) Because the last film ended with the climax of the first film, and because this film’s opening scene was the ending of the last film (kudos if any of that made sense to you), this means that the end of the clock tower scene is the only sequence to appear in all three Back to the Future films.
4) The film’s opening theme actually introduces a new love theme from composer Alan Silvestri. A lighter melody which reoccurs throughout the film which I always tied to Doc and Clara’s relationship. But in hindsight it could just as easily be used to relate Doc and Marty’s friendship.
5) I mentioned in my post about Back to the Future Part II that the sequels play with the idea of history repeating itself by recreating scenes from the original in new circumstances. This trend continues in Part III immediately when Doc doesn’t believe that Marty actually came back FROM the future and refers to him as, “future boy,” only for Marty to talk to Doc through a locked door and convince him otherwise.
6) Doc reading the letter his future self wrote to Marty from 1885 is great. We get to see a lot of fun from 1955 Doc in reacting to ideas like the flying Delorean and briefly thinking that, “Einstein,” was someone other than his own future dog. Also it makes both Doc & Marty tear up. I’m all for tearful bromances.
7) As I mentioned before, this film does succeed in some nice emphasis on Doc’s character. Before he was a funny enthusiastic scientist and we didn’t get MUCH of his backstory, but here we get nice little details which flesh out his character more. Notably, his love for Jules Verne inspiring his desires to be a scientist. We also learn that he LOVED the Old West and as a kid he wanted to be a cowboy. That’s such a fun idea!
8)
Marty [after finding a picture of his great-great-grandfather Seamus McFly, also played by Michael J. Fox]: “That’s him. Good looking guy.”
9) So Doc is about to send Marty into the old west dressed as a “cowboy” and Marty points out he never saw Clint Eastwood dress like this.
Doc: “Clint who?”
Marty [looking at the movie posters]: “That’s right. You haven’t heard of him yet.”
The movies featured at the drive-in - Revenge of the Creature and Tarantula -both actually feature a young Clint Eastwood in them!
10) According to IMDb:
The drive-in theater was constructed specifically for this film. It was built in Monument Valley, and demolished immediately after filming. No films were ever screened there.
I would have LOVED to go to that drive in. Like that would be a must see destination for sure.

11) This is a nice callback to the original:
1955 Doc (telling Marty about how he’ll have to drive through the desert): “Remember where you’re going there are no roads!”
12) The gag with the Native Americans is pretty clever. For those of you who haven’t seen the film: Marty is concerned about running into the drive in wall with the Native Americans on it but is concerned he’ll hit them, but Doc points out he’ll travel back in time when there was no wall. Except when he travels back in time, there’s a group of (possibly stereotypical) Native Americans charging right at him (because they’re being chased by the cavalry).
13) Michael J. Fox as William McFly.
Fox continues his excellence of acting out multiple characters from the first film with his performance as Marty’s ancestor Seamus. He plays it totally different than he does Marty. Quieter, kinder, a little less brash, and with a killer Irish accent. Like his acting in the previous film, you never feel like you’re watching Fox play against Fox. They’re two totally different characters and he does well to show that.
14) Not only does this film play well with preexisting gags, but it also adds to them.
Marty: I had this horrible nightmare. Dreamed I w-... dreamed I was in a western. And I was being chased by all these Indians... and a bear.
Maggie McFly: Well... you're safe and sound here, now, at the McFly farm.
Marty: McFly farm? (Marty jolts out of bed to see Maggie) Why, you're my, you're my, my...(realizes he’s never actually met this woman in his whole life, as opposed to all the times he’s done this with his mom.) Who are you?
15) Just as Fox plays Seamus well, Lea Thompson does a great job as Maggie McFly.
Maggie is so different from Lorraine or...huh, I guess she’s only played different versions of Lorraine before. But she’s a little fiercer, being an immigrant at all, is able to hold her own with her husband, and again the Irish accent is great! I very much enjoy Maggie.
16) Robert Zemeckis directed Who Framed Roger Rabbit before the two Back to the Future sequels...
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17) Think about this: we have seen seven full generations of Marty’s family.
His great great grandparents, Seamus and Maggie.
His great grandfather, William (as a baby).
His grandparents, Sam and Stella (in the original film)
His parents and his mother’s siblings (in the original film)
His parents.
Him and his siblings.
His children.
That gets to an excellent point about this series: it’s not about random time travel, it’s very much about family and the relationships we form between blood and friends. The fact that we meet seven generations of one kid’s family I think illustrates that perfectly.
18) Marty wandering through town illustrates how he wanders through town in the earlier films, giving us some nice throwbacks/foreshadowing (I don’t know which it is in a time travel movie) when we see A. Jones Manure Company.
19) The three bar patrons:

Dub Taylor, Harrey Carey. Jr., and Pat Buttram made careers out of playing sidekicks, town drunks, and colorful townsfolk in hundreds of westerns and television shows. Buttram in particular provided memorable voice over work in The Fox & The Hound as Chief and Disney’s Robin Hood as the Sheriff of Nottingham.
20) Bufford ‘Mad Dog’ Tannen.
This was Thomas F. Wilson’s favorite film to shoot out of the Back to the Future trilogy because he got to be a cowboy pretty much. Wilson is truly underrated throughout this film. In so many ways Mad Dog is a wildly different character from Biff and Griff. He’s more of a classic thug, he feels like he’s straight out of an old western and Wilson is chameleonic in the part. You don’t see Biff or Griff or any of other Wilson’s work, you just see Mad Dog and I will forever shout to the heavens that Thomas F. Wilson does not get enough credit for his work in this film.
21) These films really lucked out in their pop culture references. From the original we’ve had references to films, TV and music which have stood the test of time. These include Star Wars, “Star Trek”, Jaws, and - in this film - Clint Eastwood and Michael Jackson. Marty’s Michael Jackson dance when Mad Dog asks him to Dance is great!
22) In each film Marty pisses off a Tannen family member in a place to drink and is chased through town by him and his gang. This film is a bit more serious with that idea, as Mad Dog and his crew ride their horses and practically hogtie and lynch Marty. It’s the one time the town chase has not ended with Marty coming up on top, needing Doc’s sharpshooting to save his life. According to IMDb:
Thomas F. Wilson who plays Buford Tannen, performed all his horse riding stunts himself. He also did the trick where he lassoes Marty just before we meet the 1885 Doc.
When "Mad Dog" tried to lynch Marty, Michael J. Fox was accidentally hanged, rendering him unconscious for a short time. He records this in his autobiography "Lucky Man" (2002).
23) I never knew how amazing Doc Brown as a badass gunslinger would be until I saw this film.

24) It’s interesting to note that Doc does not remember helping Marty get to the Old West when he did so thirty years earlier. My working theory is this: we know that Doc hit his head a lot, so I’m guessing at some point he just banged himself up so much he forgot his own future in the Old West.
25) The Mayor in Part III was a part which was offered to Ronald Reagan after his presidency, as he was a fan of the original film. He ended up turning it down.
26) The whole idea of an act committed by Marty and Doc changes the name of Clayton Ravine to Shonash Ravine then to Eastwood Ravine is basically a more obvious version of the Twin Pines/Lone Pine Mall joke in the first film.
27) Clara Clayton.
With the exception of Lorraine, the Back to the Future films don’t exactly excel at representing female characters (they literally left Jennifer on the porch in the middle of the last film and she won’t show up again until the end of this film). Mary Steenburgen as Clara Clayton is a nice change of pace for that. Although largely introduced as a love interest for Doc Brown, she is developed into an interesting character to match Doc’s. She has the same love for Jules Verne and science as he does (a rarity in the Old West), she’s able to fend for herself around Bufford Tannen, but she and Doc also connect on a really fascinating level. Even though they just met, the chemistry between Lloyd and Steenburgen make you really believe that these two love each other (the scene where Doc agrees to fix her telescope is so cute!). I love Mary Steenburgen in this film, and she’s a worthy addition to the trilogy.
28) With the extension of the story to a trilogy, we get to see when the famous Hill Valley clock starts clicking in 1885 (in Part III) and when it stops clicking in 1955 (in the original film). Thinking it through, you can figure out exactly how long the clock ran. The clock in the clock tower started running at 8:00 p.m. on September 5, 1885 (the date is provided by the caption on the photograph Doc gives Marty at the end of the movie). The lightning strikes the clock tower at 10:04 p.m. on November 12, 1955. This means that the clock tower operated for exactly 70 years, 2 months, 7 days, 2 hours, and 4 minutes.

29) Much like how Huey Lewis made a cameo in the original film, ZZ Top (who sings the song “Doubleback” which plays during the credits) cameos as the 1885 town bad during the dance.
According to IMDb:
According to the book "Billy Gibbons: Rock & Roll Gearhead", ZZ Top was hanging around the set and was asked to be the town band. During one take, the camera broke. While waiting for the camera to be repaired, Michael J. Fox asked if they would play "Hey Good Lookin'" which they did. Afterwards, more requests were played. Two hours later, someone inquired if the camera had been repaired. Robert Zemeckis replied that it had been fixed for quite a while, he just didn't want to stop the party that had evolved.
Also the song they’re playing is an acoustic version of “Doubleback” from the film.
30) I’m sharing this largely for the first 22 seconds.
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After watching the modern “Doctor Who” series I immediately think of this:
You Whovians get me.
31) I’ve seen this film probably around ten times (maybe eleven now) but this was the first time that the actor playing the Colt salesman looked familiar to me.

Well that’s because the last time I watched this film and my most recent viewing I’d see Blazing Saddles twice and, well...
32) And of course this has to continue because it wasn’t resolved in Part II:
Mad Dog [to Marty]: “You yella?”
Again, I don’t have an issue with this as much as other people do, but it’s hardly my favorite aspect of the trilogy.
33) This part makes me laugh every time:
Mad Dog: Then let's finish it, right now!
Gang Member #1: Uh, not now, Buford. Uh, Marshal's got our guns.
Mad Dog: Like I said, we'll finish this tomorrow.
Gang Member #2: Tomorrow, we're robbin' the Pine City Stage.
Mad Dog: What about Monday? Are we doin' anything Monday?
Gang Member #1: Uh, no, Monday'd be fine. You can kill him on Monday.
Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen: I'll be back this way on Monday!
34) Doc and Clara stargazing melts my cynical heart.
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35) The only time in the entire trilogy when the catchphrases are flipped!
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And I laugh every time.
36) It is a truly fascinating scene to watch when Doc tells Marty he wants to stay in 1885, but Marty knows Doc so well he is able to pretty easily convince him otherwise (mainly by appealing to the scientist in him). It shows just how great a friendship these two have.
37) You know what I never got: why does Doc not want to take Clara with them to 1985?
SHE’S SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD ANYWAY!!!!
38) My heart breaks every time Doc tries to tell Clara the truth about himself, and each time I watch this film there’s a part of me that thinks it won’t happen this time. I’m always wrong.
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39) This fucking scene:
Doc [after a traveling salesman tells him you never know what the future holds]: “Oh...the future. I can tell you about the future.”
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(Feel free to stop watching after 1:44)
40) I’m starting to realize this film has some of my favorite gags in the whole trilogy.
Marty [after Doc faints after taking a shot]: “How many did he have?”
Bartender: “Just one.”
Marty: “‘Just one’?”
Bartender: “Now there’s a man who can’t hold his liquor.”
41) Marty realizing what we all should when dealing with someone like Tannen:
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42) If I didn’t ship these two enough, just listen to how Clara describes Doc:
Clara [asking about Doc]: “Was this man tall, with great big brown puppy dog eyes and long silvery flowing hair?”
I love it!
43) Originally Mad Dog Tannen (after falling in manure) was arrested for killing Marshal Strickland and this was said by the deputy. However, this scene was deleted as the filmmaker decided it was too dark. They pointed out the fact that no one dies and stays dead in the Back to the Future films. Hence the re-dub.
44) When Doc blows the train whistle he gleefully exclaims, “I’ve wanted to do that all my life!” This sentiment would be repeated by the main character in 2004′s The Polar Express, also directed by Robert Zemeckis.
45) The entire climax with the train - while no Clock Tower scene from the original - is a great ride! It keeps the film’s standard for exciting and well done action in check while also feeding in incredibly into the western genre. It’s just a lot of fun!
46) This moment:
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HIS FACE! HE’S JUST SO HAPPY AND I LOVE IT! YES!!!!
47) It’s so sad when we think that Marty will never see Doc again because the Delorean is destroyed. Thank god for time travel.
48) Needles looks like a moron. Did people really dress this way in 1985?
49) In the last film it was established that Marty got into a car accident with a Rolls Royce after being called chicken, a decision which sent his life spinning down the toilet. This time we see the scene itself and while Marty decides not to race Needles (and in doing so he avoids the accident), because of time travel something is different this time:
JENNIFER IS IN THE PASSENGER SEAT OF THE CAR! JENNIFER WOULD’VE FREAKING DIED!
That could’ve been very bad for Marty.
50) I have a lot of fan theories in my head that fill up a lot of plot holes, but one thing I can’t figure out is how did Doc get the barriers to the railroad to drop before he traveled back in the time train to meet Marty & Jennifer?
51) Jules & Verne.

If you watch carefully, you can see the younger of the two - Verne - doing random stuff with his hands during the wide-shot. That’s because a crew member was in charge of doing things with his hands that the child actor would mirror, mainly with petting the dog. But when the crew member started gesturing for someone to come by them Verne continued mirroring him. And it’s in the final film.
52) This is a great closing message for the entire trilogy.
I love Back to the Future Part III. I love all the Back to the Future movies honestly, but something about Part III just really does it for me. I love the Western setting, I love the emphasis on Doc, I think Lloyd and Wilson get to really shine, and Clara is such a wonderful addition to the story. It’s just a really great way to close out one of the best film trilogies in movie history! So go watch it! Not just this film, the whole trilogy. You won’t be sorry.
#Back to the Future#Back to the Future Part III#Christopher Lloyd#Michael J Fox#Mary Steenburgen#Thomas F Wilson#Lea Thompson#Robert Zemeckis#Epic Movie (Re)Watch#Movie#Film#GIF
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I love this so much!
Hi! I just wanted to say that I love your BTTF art and your weredoc AU! It's so whimsical and engaging!
I wanted to know--if you ever thought about it--how did Doc and Marty meet? I've always imagined it as somewhat of a random meeting where little Marty is like 'you blow stuff up? Cool, I'm in!' And then Doc is suddenly a father figure, hehe I want to know what you think! :)
oh thank you! i'm glad you think so :D
how i think doc and marty met is probably the most accepted one of marty breaking into his garage one day bc i think it's funny hahaha. specifically the version where needles and co dare him to break in and steal something bc i don't think marty would just break into a guy's house out of pure curiosity, even if said guy is the town mad scientist. i like to think that they waited until doc left the house to walk einie and needles and co told marty that they'll tell him to get out if they see him coming back, but when he actually came back they all chickened out and left marty to dry LMAO. so doc comes back, sees a gaggle of middle schoolers very inconspicuously hightail it off his property, and walks in thinking he's done with trespassers for the day only to find another one hiding in his closet afraid that he's going to get dissected or something, and usually when kids break into his house (a non-zero occurence, unfortunately) he plays into the mad scientist bit and yes-ands the rumors about him until they leave, but marty immediately started apologizing and explaining that it wasn't even his idea and looked to be on the verge of tears so doc just ended up feeling bad for the kid and offered him a job walking einie instead. and they've been hanging out ever since :D
#back to the future#the comics have a variation of the “breaking and entering” thing so it's semi-supported in dubious canon BUT i dislike it#bttf#it's a tad too convoluted for my tastes#plus in it it's doc who tells marty to call him that whereas i (and many others) believe that he just came to that nickname one day himself#obviously a superior vision#but i do agree w the comic that einstein liked him immediately! in my version of events einstein was never hostile to him he just beelined#for the closet bc he smelled new friend#also in this version marty's still a girl bc he hasn't figured out that bit yet. the transgender beam will come later for him#i also like to think in this version marty first meets doc when he's 13 instead of 14 (which i think is the most widely accepted age)#if only so that they have an extra year or so of being friends#kit yap session
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