#bttfposting

so like, traditional time loops aren’t a thing in bttf, but still it’s interesting how a lot of the elements of a time loop are there. marty is locked in this cycle of losing doc->saving doc->losing him again etc., in circumstances that transcend linear experiences of time and mirror previous iterations. which is interesting because bttf very clearly says you can change the past and the future….but i guess just not the fact that you have to witness your best friend’s death in every timeline lmfao

telltale did irreparable damage by giving marty that generic 2000s white boy hairstyle

“marty mcfly is an all-american boy” but if an all-american boy had a canadian accent. and was catholic

*taking a drag of my cigarette* you see, back to the future is like if the myth of orpheus and eurydice had a baby with the time traveler’s wife but it was raised by pacific rim and looney tunes

On another note, doc didn’t go to hill valley high?? he went to a private boys’ school?? how did I miss this on my first playthrough lol. the contrast between emmett brown who grew up in a mansion with serving staff and went to private school, who had a troubled relationship with his strict and controlling father, and marty mcfly, who grew up in a small middle-class home with one car shared among the whole family and went to public school and whose father didn’t play the role hard enough……

I finished my playthrough of the game last night and yeah I can definitively say this time the sexism really pisses me off. it’s a painfully 2000s kind of sexism too that tries to subvert the madonna/whore dichotomy but just ends up being misogynist as hell about edna, a complex female character whose unresolved trauma and obsessive personality gives her right-wing fascist leanings. but it’s ok. let’s all laugh at her and call her a bitch. sorry I mean “witch”

the most romantic thing in the world is watching your closest friend die horrifically and being unable to do anything about it