"HammerheadFistpunch" (hammerheadfistpunch)
02/04/2020 at 20:27 • Filed to: CMON DOC
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"HammerheadFistpunch" (hammerheadfistpunch)
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watching BTTF 3 again (I know, I know) and I am bothered by a few things but the biggest is this
Doc brown built an ice machine, made his own super hot burning logs, has electricity in his shop in 1885 somehow...but he can’t distill enough ethanol to run a gas powered car for 5 minutes? Can’t capture enough methane and a basic pump to compress and store it and use it? HAS A GIGAWATT CLASS FUSION REACTOR , KNOWS HOW TO MAKE ELECTRIC MOTORS (shown in the film) AND CAN’T GET MARTY HOME?!?! Let’s not mention that Marty comes back to get him because they won’t have the required components to REPAIR the time machine he has but within 2 decades he builds another one out of a train...that FLIES?! p.s. it has no mr fusion, or plutonium...
Tekamul
> HammerheadFistpunch
02/04/2020 at 20:47 |
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Y eah, but he was hanging a clock when he slipped and hit his head on the toilet. CTE is a selective bitch.
Nothing
> HammerheadFistpunch
02/04/2020 at 20:52 |
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That’s quite funny, we watched 1 and 2 over the past couple of days. Oddly enough, my son hasn’t mentioned wanting to watch 3.
SBA Thanks You For All The Fish
> Tekamul
02/04/2020 at 21:07 |
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Have you ever seen that video of “the Dark Side of Doc Brown”? These films have a lot of “evil Doc Brown” hints including some suggestion that he torched his grand home of the 1955 time frame in an arson-insurance scam.
CTE indeed.
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SBA Thanks You For All The Fish
> HammerheadFistpunch
02/04/2020 at 21:19 |
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You do raise a good point that, with his extensive knowledge base-and-expertise, being stuck in 1885 shouldn’t have been an insurmountable obstacle.
Given his knowledge of that lame-ass PRV v6 in the Delorean, he actually had other fuels the terrible low compression ratio of that motor could have run on. (8 to 1 or so...) Coal gas had been used commercial in lighting and heating for 70 years by then, Hill Valley was later found to be oil producing, so he should have had any number of flammable hydrocarbon gases at his disposal... none of which would have needed a locomotive, a set of tracks or a missing bridge to add dramatic tension.
Maybe he wanted to fail? He was a known arsonist, after all?
shop-teacher
> SBA Thanks You For All The Fish
02/04/2020 at 21:23 |
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I always assumed Doc swapped a small block Chevy in place of the PRV.
Noodles
> HammerheadFistpunch
02/04/2020 at 21:32 |
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But it all came from this. https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=robot+chicken+doc+brown+jiggawatt&&view=detail&mid=D6088D568EB3295B5850D6088D568EB3295B5850&&FORM=VRDGAR
ranwhenparked
> SBA Thanks You For All The Fish
02/04/2020 at 21:43 |
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The trouble was he was in a little desert frontier town in 1885, you wouldn’t have found electricity, central heating, municipal gas service, or telephones in a place like that. They all existed, just in the larger cities (and rural mansions built by the very wealthy who could afford things like their own power plants and switchboards).
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SBA Thanks You For All The Fish
> ranwhenparked
02/04/2020 at 21:46 |
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I need to go back and re-watch to see (again) what he had to work with. IIRC mostly he needed to get the DMC-12 up to 88MPH, so it sounds like all he really needed was a hill....
I’m assuming Hill Valley had at least one...
ttyymmnn
> HammerheadFistpunch
02/04/2020 at 22:47 |
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It’s not a documentary.....
Chariotoflove
> HammerheadFistpunch
02/04/2020 at 23:46 |
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I just finished watching all of Flash season 5. If you wanna talk about time inconsistency, open the liquor cabinet and we’ll get into it.
RallyWrench
> HammerheadFistpunch
02/05/2020 at 00:08 |
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I can only assume you’ve seen John Mulaney’s bit on BTTF? Worth looking up.
son of a motherless goat (PSA: wash your hooves)
> ttyymmnn
02/05/2020 at 00:17 |
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Well no.
Not in this timeline.
SpecsGTP
> HammerheadFistpunch
02/05/2020 at 07:02 |
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As probably the biggest fan of BTTF all I can say is that suspending your disbelief for a little bit is definitely needed for the third movie. It is fun with a choo-choo in the Old West and all, but the biggest inconsistency/inaccuracy in the movie you ask? A vehicle to locomotive accident ( time machine being destroyed) and the engineer didn’t stop, contact authorities, or otherwise interrupt operations.
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SpecsGTP
> shop-teacher
02/05/2020 at 07:04 |
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Unfortunately when the octopus fuel injection manifold gets blown off (yes from under the car) it would dispel the small block idea. Although Doc drove a '48 Packard, he sadly is not much of a car guy.
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shop-teacher
> SpecsGTP
02/05/2020 at 07:07 |
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Only real weirdos drive '48 Packards.
DipodomysDeserti
> HammerheadFistpunch
02/05/2020 at 08:20 |
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As someone with experince teaching kids with autism, it’s a scary accurate depiction.