Episode Ideas

[Mike Haley]

Originally Posted by markeres

I'm kind of surprised this topic hasn't been revived, since we know so much more info about the game since the last post. Anyway...

It has something to do with the controversial nature of my original post, I think. I tried to turn the thread around with some different ideas (and encouraged others to post their own), but that did not work, so finally, I just whipped out one of these.

Originally Posted by markeres

I think one of the episodes may revolve around Marty's fateful first meeting with Doc, and it being prevented somehow...

I second that. It would be great to see how they first met. I believe that Doc hired Marty to clean up around his lab. Perhaps Doc put out an ad in the paper, and Marty was the first to respond?

[Tyrfing42]

Originally Posted by Strayth

You realize something is wrong with this story, right ?

People had NO IDEA what Jesus was at first. HE made miracles so they followed him.

They weren't waiting for him. They won't expect Marty to "walk on the water" ... Marty would have to willingly take Jesus' place and follow his path (that he knew from the bible) for this story to be coherent...

I believe it's too much.

Um, no there were verses about the Messiah (i.e. "Christ") in the Hebrew texts, and Jesus himself wasn't the only person trying to fill that role back then. Heck, from what I understood, when Jesus was crucified he wasn't even the only one being crucified as Christ that week. Just another prophet stirring up trouble for them.

Originally Posted by doggans

There wasn't actually a 0000 AD; history goes straight from 1 BC to 1 AD. Bob Gale mentions in the movie commentary that the idea of "Dec 25 0000" is his favorite joke in the movie that nobody else laughs at.

And it becomes a bit sillier when you remember that the December 25 was just a date chosen to be Jesus's birthday by people quite some time after he died.

[Farlander]

Hey. You know what? If we'll have to travel to November 12th, 1955 in the game... there will be THREE FREAKIN' MARTYS (Heck, maybe that's what 'Double Visions' will be about, with the third Marty seeing himself DOUBLE...)

Now. I'm actually NOT sure if I would really want that. But the thought of it made me chuckle.

EDIT: I imagined this dialogue:
Marty from BttF2 drags Doc to his 1955 car after Doc passed out at the end of BttF2. Sees Marty and Doc from the game who have their business.
(sorry for the crudeness of the dialogue, it's just something that spontaneously appeared in my head)
Marty-BttF2: This is heavy! *releases Doc in shock and his body falls down with a bump*
Marty-Game: Oh, right, I was here at this moment. I forgot.
Marty-BttF2: All right, I'm glad Doc is here, this gives me some confidence, but... What the hell are we doing in this day AGAIN?
Marty-Game and Doc-Game look at each other. Marty-Game: Don't worry. I will rest for six months before all this shit happens. *Start to slowly walk away* Oh, and keep the letter ready. He'll have a recursion of his disbelief in Time Travel syndrome. And try to hide better in the fut... in the past, let's see how it works out, OK?
Marty-BttF2: Sure. Hey, will you at least help me drag Doc into his car? You're heavy Doc, and nothing has happened to Earth's gravitational pull yet!
Doc-Game and Marty-Game look at each other again. Doc-Game: Well it's not like we can make it any more worse. *looks at Marty-Game* And I don't want you to drop me several more times again.

[Irishmile]

I loved the parts where the second movie interweaved with the first .... it would be interesting to see how a third Marty would work in that context.

[Origami]

@Farlander

I lol'd. Funny dialog.

Imho we shouldn't revisit 1955 AGAIN. Rather I'd like to revisit a time that was introduced in the game and see the Marty from the game again.
If the Marty and Doc from the movies appear I want them to have subtle appearances. Like we see them in the background for a couple of sec.

[Rusty0918]

Well, I bet we'll be revisiting 1955 again in some fashion or another, given the circumstances.

[Alriightyman]

Well, in BTTF2 when Marty told Doc they need to go back to 1955, Doc said something about that point in time inherently containing some sort of cosmic significance.

[LuigiHann]

Marty McFly: That's right, Doc. November 12, 1955.
Doc: Unbelievable, that old Biff could have chosen that particular date. It could mean that that point in time inherently contains some sort of cosmic significance. Almost as if it were the temporal junction point for the entire space-time continuum. On the other hand, it could just be an amazing coincidence.

I always wondered if that date had been somehow stored in the DeLorean's memory, even though it wasn't the last time departed at the time. Thinking about it more, though, that was clearly the date that it all went wrong for Biff, the night when he "lost" Lorraine and his role as coolest kid in school all at once. That date probably made enough of an impression on him that it makes sense that Old Biff would choose that date to go back and "fix" his past.

[tredlow]

This is the same reason why I think Doctor Who will end with The Doctor's death.

Because, if the Doctor lives forever, and he has a time machine, that would mean that he will have visited every single point of the universe at every single moment of time, unless, at one point, he stops living.

[SeanSeanston]

Originally Posted by LuigiHann

I always wondered if that date had been somehow stored in the DeLorean's memory, even though it wasn't the last time departed at the time. Thinking about it more, though, that was clearly the date that it all went wrong for Biff, the night when he "lost" Lorraine and his role as coolest kid in school all at once. That date probably made enough of an impression on him that it makes sense that Old Biff would choose that date to go back and "fix" his past.

Wasn't it because it was the day he got his car back from being repaired?

Or was that part just a coincidence... hmmm.

[Rusty0918]

Well there is definitely a possibility of revisiting that particular date in 1955 without a doubt. IN fact, I wouldn't be surprised at all if we went back there.

[Triloge]

Originally Posted by SeanSeanston

Wasn't it because it was the day he got his car back from being repaired?

Or was that part just a coincidence... hmmm.

That's correct. In a deleted scene in 2015 we see Old Biff meet the mechanic who repaired his car after the manure incident in Part I, who mentions the incident (I think the date, actually, but I'm not sure). In the commentary Bob Gale states that indeed is the reason.

[nav_auron]

It's possible that 1955 could appear in the game, but judging by the synopses of the episodes on the BttF homepage, it would only appear in the final episode, if at all, and it would be brief.

[Laserschwert]

Originally Posted by Irishmile

I loved the parts where the second movie interweaved with the first ....

That's what made the second movie so outstanding for me... back when I was younger it was the stuff in 2015, but by now it's going back to the first movie which makes BTTF2 such an awesome film for me.

Anyway, Dennis Lenart stated in THIS interview (right at the beginning) that they won't go back into the previous movies, so don't get your hopes up But usually Telltale creates great self-contained stories, so that's actually a good thing. I want to see something new and fresh, and if there's something similar like going back into the first movie, it's probably more along the lines of S&M S2, with going back into an earlier episode of the season.

[PrivateJoker]

Originally Posted by Alriightyman

Well, in BTTF2 when Marty told Doc they need to go back to 1955, Doc said something about that point in time inherently containing some sort of cosmic significance.

That was a joke about the movies plot. he also said "or it could just be a coincidence."

Love the plot of the movies, LOVE them, but you really aren't supposed to take everything so literally.

[Chyron8472]

Originally Posted by tredlow

This is the same reason why I think Doctor Who will end with The Doctor's death.

Because, if the Doctor lives forever, and he has a time machine, that would mean that he will have visited every single point of the universe at every single moment of time, unless, at one point, he stops living.

Live forever? Time lords only have 13 lives.

[LuigiHann]

Originally Posted by Chyron8472

Live forever? Time lords only have 13 lives.

I'm guessing tredlow knows that, since he expects the Doctor to die at some point. However, the Master has shown several times over that the limit can be bypassed in rather large number of creative ways. Also, this trends in the off-topic direction.

Originally Posted by Laserschwert

Anyway, Dennis Lenart stated in THIS interview (right at the beginning) that they won't go back into the previous movies, so don't get your hopes up

I think he's more saying that the game won't be a retelling of the stories of the movie, which is the sort of thing that seems obvious to us as Telltale fans, but a lot of the general public expects movie games to let them re-enact the story of the movie, and many movie games do just that. He was just saying that the story will be more of a sequel, and I don't think that rules out the idea of revisiting the same events from another angle, since that's what the actual sequel did.

I still don't particularly expect for them to revisit any scenes from the movie directly, because it'd be pretty much impossible to get the timing right in any kind of interactive part of the game, but I wouldn't be totally surprised if they revisit a setting from one of the films at some point.

[tredlow]

Originally Posted by Chyron8472

Live forever? Time lords only have 13 lives.

Actually, they ret-conned this bit of fact, I think.

Though, then Russel T Davies stated this, so... I dunno.

Frankly, I wouldn't mind that much if the doctor lives forever.