Possible BTTF Season 2 ideas/speculation/suggestion

[hscitpe]

I'm not sure what you mean. The DeLorean could go back to 0000, but would still stay in Hill Valley. It's not like just because Doc typed 12/25/0000 into the Time Circuits that the DeLorean would suddenly end up wherever Christ was born at.

[Milosuperspesh]

well of course he'd still be in hill valley but in theory he could drive there might take a while and he'd need alot of fuel or wait till he had the hover conversion done and fly over lol

course that would mean they'd be seen and people would go crazy thinking aliens had landed.

[Jennifer]

It's true that Doc does say that you can go back to "witness the birth of Christ", which does seem to mean that Doc is inferring that you can use the DeLorean to travel to Israel on December 25, 0000 (since if you're just in the site of the future Hill Valley on that day you really couldn't witness Christ's birth).

Though, the way Doc's mind wanders he could have been thinking of additional modifications needed to be added to the DeLorean when he said that statement, or he could have just been talking about time travel in general and not specifically talking about what the DeLorean could and could not do.

[Shadowknight1]

Originally Posted by Jennifer

It's true that Doc does say that you can go back to "witness the birth of Christ", which does seem to mean that Doc is inferring that you can use the DeLorean to travel to Israel on December 25, 0000 (since if you're just in the site of the future Hill Valley on that day you really couldn't witness Christ's birth).

Though, the way Doc's mind wanders he could have been thinking of additional modifications needed to be added to the DeLorean when he said that statement, or he could have just been talking about time travel in general and not specifically talking about what the DeLorean could and could not do.

Or it could be all of those. As many say, his brain runs a mile a second, coming up with all kinds of new ideas.

[Michael J Fox is Canadian]

Originally Posted by Jennifer

It's true that Doc does say that you can go back to "witness the birth of Christ", which does seem to mean that Doc is inferring that you can use the DeLorean to travel to Israel on December 25, 0000 (since if you're just in the site of the future Hill Valley on that day you really couldn't witness Christ's birth).

Though, the way Doc's mind wanders he could have been thinking of additional modifications needed to be added to the DeLorean when he said that statement, or he could have just been talking about time travel in general and not specifically talking about what the DeLorean could and could not do.

I kind of saw it as tongue in cheek; December 25th 0000 is not a valid date, there was no year 0 at that time so the official calendar jumps from 1 BC to 1 AD. Unless Doc programmed a specific modification in the delorean's computer, it would likely calculate the date based on 0 existing as a valid year and thus be off by a year.

Similar to early in part III when 1955 doc indicates his counterpart could have been sent to the dark ages and burnt to the stake as a heretic via the lightning bolt but of course he would have landed in Hill valley if that were the case.


Also congrats on your mod tag

[Jennifer]

Originally Posted by Michael J Fox is Canadian

I kind of saw it as tongue in cheek; December 25th 0000 is not a valid date, there was no year 0 at that time so the official calendar jumps from 1 BC to 1 AD. Unless Doc programmed a specific modification in the delorean's computer, it would likely calculate the date based on 0 existing as a valid year and thus be off by a year.

Ha, that actually flew right over my head. You're right that the modern calendar starts at 1 AD. Not to mention that the time circuit programming would probably be confused by a 0 year date. Computers tend to act unreliably when met with a divide by zero error.

Originally Posted by Michael J Fox is Canadian

Also congrats on your mod tag

Thanks.

[Michael J Fox is Canadian]

Originally Posted by Jennifer

Ha, that actually flew right over my head. You're right that the modern calendar starts at 1 AD. Not to mention that the time circuit programming would probably be confused by a 0 year date. Computers tend to act unreliably when met with a divide by zero error.


Thanks.

It actually wouldn't be a divide by 0 error. We're not sure if Doc did program the ability to go before the year 0 or after the year 9999 (which begs the question what happens if he goes to december 31st 9999 and waits a day) but how it would logically work is using a date calculator; subtracts the destination time from the current time and that is how far it knows to travel. If the result is a negative value it knows to go to the past, positive and it goes to the future; So when Marty does eventually go from October 26th 1985 to November 5th 1955, it calculates going 29 years, 11 months and 9 days backwards in time. Presumably unless doc made a modification if he actually time traveled with 0000 in the time circuits, it would have gone to the year 1 BC (which is 1985 years before the year 1985)

[yoman45135]

Well now the walking dead is over im hoping season 2 might be announced at e3 in a few months, I wont bet my money on it though...

[hscitpe]

That's six months away XD

[Shadowknight1]

I'm not betting on it.

[yoman45135]

Originally Posted by hscitpe

That's six months away XD

Oh yeah it felt like 3 or 4 months away for some reason

[ufo]

meh, im not going to buy the walking dead no matter how good it is. I WANT BACK TO THE FUTURE SEASON 2,3,4,5,7,8,9,X. Every year i want another season of BACK TO THE FUTURE!!!!!!!!!!!

[ryannumber1gamer]

Originally Posted by hscitpe

Here's all the ones we definitely have physical proof of occurring in one form or another. I'm pretty sure I got them all, but if I missed any let me know.

A - Original timeline (George is a loser)
B - Marty goes to 1955 (George is a winner)
C - Doc returns to 1985 for Marty and Jennifer [Transition between Parts I and II]
D - Biff goes back to 1985 (1985-A)
E - Doc, Marty, Jennifer and Einstein return to 1985 (1985-A)
F - Doc and Marty return to 1955
G - Doc is sent to 1885 (Lightning strike) [Transition between Parts II and III]
H - Marty goes to 1885
I - Doc returns to 1985 from the future in the Jules Verne Train
J - Doc jumps to an unknown time in the past in the flying Train
K - Doc returns to an unknown time after finding the Temporal Duplicate DeLorean in 2025
L - Marty travels back to June 13, 1931 (Doc is in jail, Arthur gets murdered) [Start of the Game]
M - Marty returns to 1931 (Arthur is alive, Kid isn't in jail)
N - Marty and Doc jump back to August 25, 1931 (Kid goes to jail)
O - Marty and First Citizen Brown arrive on October 12, 1931
P - Citizen Brown tests the time circuits
Q - Citizen Brown tests the time circuits
R - Citizen Brown tests the time circuits
S - Alternate Doc arrives in 1931 to pseudo pick up Marty
T - Edna attempts to evade Danny Parker and accidentally jumps back to 1876 (Hill Valley vanishes)
U - Doc and Marty chase Edna back to 1876 and prevent Hill Valley from burning down, Edna is sent to prison, Doc takes up a part time residence in 1986.

(Depending on the universe)
V - Future Alternate Marty #1 arrives
W - Future Alternate Marty #2 arrives
X - Future Alternate Marty #3 arrives

You forgot the timeline where Marty first finds out about Doc being in 1931 where Doc is murdered by Kid and Arthur is alive.

[Shadowknight1]

Originally Posted by ufo

meh, im not going to buy the walking dead no matter how good it is. I WANT BACK TO THE FUTURE SEASON 2,3,4,5,7,8,9,X. Every year i want another season of BACK TO THE FUTURE!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm a huge BttF nut, but that would be WAY too much BttF.

[hscitpe]

Originally Posted by ryannumber1gamer

You forgot the timeline where Marty first finds out about Doc being in 1931 where Doc is murdered by Kid and Arthur is alive.

You are absolutely right. I most certainly did.

[Carlos85G]

Originally Posted by hscitpe

You are absolutely right. I most certainly did.

You also missed First Citizen Doc's jump back to May 14, 1986 to pick Marty up.

[hscitpe]

Thanks for making me look stupid, Carlos.

[Hudomonkey]

When they first announced a Back to the Future game I wanted a Sam and Max season 2 episode 4 kind of game where you had around 5 different time periods and you had to work with to get items and change time

[coxwell85]

For the love of god please make another BTTF game! And I can't believe nobody's thought about taking Marty and Doc... Back to the FUTURE!!

[Krohn]

Originally Posted by Jennifer

Ha, that actually flew right over my head. You're right that the modern calendar starts at 1 AD. ...

Looks like you live in the wrong century.
The modern calendar as defined in ISO 8601 does have the year 0 (which incidentally is what people stuck in the distant past would call 1 BC.)



Of course that ISO standard is from 1988, so a point could be made that Doc couldn't have known about it.

But since that is the only form of a calendar that coincidences with modern dates and allows to give a date to any day in the history, he might have been an early adopter.
(Especially as all you have to do is not implementing special handling for calendar changes)