2011
Okay, so I'm not seeing any other threads mentioning this, but I gotta throw in my speculation. Doc pretty much drops a big bombshell when he mentions he and his family are gonna visit Marty and Jennifer in 2011. This raises a number of questions;
1. Are we gonna see Doc's family? I wasn't much of a fan of the cartoon, but I'd still like to see them, being a somewhat bizarre time-traveling anomaly. Hell, Jules and Verne shouldn't even exist by any normal circumstances. It'd add some extra dimension to the story IMO.
2. Are we gonna see 2011? All I know is back to the future MUST have a future episode. What's the point of time traveling if all you do is go backwards in time?
3. Is this 2011 gonna be like our present, or similar to the movie's 2015? Because I'm certain by the time 2015 comes around, all the fans are gonna point out how completely off the movie's prediction will be. Unless we somehow get hoverboards and flying cars in the next four years. It'd be fun to see Marty's surprise out how different the future turned out. Going to the same future would be too predictable.
4. Now that I think about it, where is Doc's family? You'd think they'd come looking for Doc. I mean, they got their own time machine in the form of a flying train!
1. Are we gonna see Doc's family? I wasn't much of a fan of the cartoon, but I'd still like to see them, being a somewhat bizarre time-traveling anomaly. Hell, Jules and Verne shouldn't even exist by any normal circumstances. It'd add some extra dimension to the story IMO.
2. Are we gonna see 2011? All I know is back to the future MUST have a future episode. What's the point of time traveling if all you do is go backwards in time?
3. Is this 2011 gonna be like our present, or similar to the movie's 2015? Because I'm certain by the time 2015 comes around, all the fans are gonna point out how completely off the movie's prediction will be. Unless we somehow get hoverboards and flying cars in the next four years. It'd be fun to see Marty's surprise out how different the future turned out. Going to the same future would be too predictable.
4. Now that I think about it, where is Doc's family? You'd think they'd come looking for Doc. I mean, they got their own time machine in the form of a flying train!
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According to the description, the future will be seen in the last episode. No word on what year exactly, though.
BTTF's future is (and should be) "the future of 1985/1986" not "our present". It's an extrapolation of the events that will occur based on the exact point in time that you travel to the future. That's why Marty goes to a future where he does crash his car, etc. When he returns and doesn't crash his car, the future changes. Having Marty walking around our 2011 would just be...wrong, somehow.
"Just go to the time displayed on the read-out 'Last Time Departed'. Good luck."
^Doc DID leave a clue. He had no idea that the Last Time Departed display would glitch out.
Why would it be wrong? Then you'd have to explain away advanced technologies that are still decades into development. And you admit the future would be different anyway. And why wouldn't BTTF's 1986 lead to our 2011? All that's different is the invention of time travel, which, mind you, is still a very secret technology.
Okay, Marty affecting his own future wouldn't easily drastically alter the entire earth's future, but come on. How could you pass up an opportunity to make Marty bewildered all over again? He'll be expecting flying cars, and instead he'll see iPhones, a Black President, videogames outselling blockbuster movies, etc. Visiting the same future twice is just boring.
1. "Nothing ages faster than a view of the future" The 2015 we saw was a 2015 as the 80s saw it happening. Just like the year 2000 we saw in old sci fi movies is the 2000 the 40s and 50s saw happening. Keeping it in the present would be an accurate depiction of time, just like sending him to the old west or to 1955. (Even just to see him on Dec 31/Jan 1 of 1999/2000)
2. 2015 was a joke. Rob Zemeckis and Bob Gale didn't want to show the future, but as a result of how they ended the first one not knowing there would be a sequel they kind of put themselves in a corner.
So they agreed that instead of trying to show an "accurate" depiction of how they thought the future would be they just made the whole thing a joke. That's why you see things in 2015 like Jaws 14 and people wearing two ties.
Yeah, you could hand wave that away with 'wibbly-wobbly timey wimey,' but changing the BTTF future would just be pointless anyway. Why? For a brief laugh?
^x7 Yup, all that's different is time travel. And rocket powered bikes.