in back to the future..............?

Question

when lorraine kisses marty. she says that its like kissing her brother, but technically, she shouldnt feel that should she?

because the timeline in which her and george fall in love has been altered/erased, and the photo that marty carries is evidence of this.

so would she still feel that, "maternal", feeling?

if the timeline has been altered or erased, this would automatically eradicate those feelings i think

Answer 1

It's a movie, it's not reality not everything is going to be completely factual.

Answer 2

The timeline was altered but not erased. At least not at that point. The potential of Lorraine and George falling in love is still there at that time. So yes she would still fell that "maternal" feeling.

Answer 3

In this film the timeline is in a state of flux. although slowly being eradicated, Marties timeline still ahs a chance to survive (and indeed does) if he can get george and loraine to kiss.

The feeling of kissing her brother in this scene shouldn't be taken quite as literal as it sounds, when Marty doesn't return the kiss it gives loraine the feeling of kissing her brother, not that she feels like she just kissed her brother, it just felt "odd" to her.

Answer 4

Everything about Back to the Future is frought with paradox...however, she could still feel that way because the timeline hadn't instantly changed but was changing slowly over the course of the show. The change, after all, wasn't permanent until the night of the dance when the parents were supposed to share their first kiss.

Answer 5

He wouldn't have ever disappeared despite his parents splitting. This is because once he was created that was it. It's complete. But If it was back in time, one would argue, he would never have been born. This is disproven easily because he still would've existed because once he was created in the time that he was created, despite the absence of the new him that would've been created. This is true in the fact that had he stayed in that time, with his mom and father as they were young, and grew with them; he would've seen another him be born from his father and his mother. He wouldn't automatically have started shrink into nothing and then pop out of his mom as a newborn.That's a dimensional thing and while in that dimension, he could not be erased from existance. While his other sisters and brothers, could have never have been created, or erased from existance, the dimensional aspect is still a differential and thus, he would have remained regardless of the occurances of his parents. So hypothetically, no matter how weird, he could've gotten with his mother. And yes she would've still have had that maternal thing, because that's not a dimensional aspect, that's innate genetic knowing. It would've always felt wrong for that reason. I suppose on some level of logic, if one believes the universe is a tightly strung and fully bound continuum of "nows" instead of a collage of individual moments who live in their own plane and dimension during each specific moment, thus creating the fabric of time, then in this manner could one argue that he would've instantaneously popped into nothing. Never have been born. But for the movie's sake they had to make him disappear slowly.

Answer 6

She just meant it figuratively felt like kissing her brother (she could have easily said any close blood relative). As long as Marty existed Lorraine is technically his mother or he would not be there. If she wasn't his mother who was, because he wouldn't have existed in the first place to go back in time. It must have been ordained that he would succeed or he would not have been born in the first place.

Answer 7

But at the point in time of that kiss..Marty was still in existence on the photo!

Answer 8

He didn't kiss her back so I guess she didn't really feel anything. But there is some logic to your question. Perhaps it's a paradox that will destroy the entire known universe. Maybe just a local phenomenon confined to this galaxy.

Answer 9

Shouldn't Dorothy have been really pissed off when she found out at the end of the movie that all she had to do was click her heels together three times, and she would have been able to go home, instead of going through all that
bullsh!t?

Answer 10

i'm thinkin' you're taking this all a little too literally. after all, you're talking about a man that GOES BACK IN TIME. that in itself is just a bit of a stretch, don't you think? it's called poetic license. you just accept that you're being told a STORY...not to be presented to you as a documentary of any sort. sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride without thinking it through too much.

Answer 11

The Back to the Future series is chock full of holes in the parent paradox (a.k.a. grandfather paradox)