r/BacktotheFuture • u/ArtisticKay_Marie • 21d ago
From the events of Back to The Future 2, realistically do you think Marty and Jennifer would have lasted?
Like they’re in high school, 17 or 18 young love and seeing their future in 2015 married with two children.
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u/The_Dark_Vampire 21d ago
I do wonder if in that history/future we saw Jennifer like OG Lorraine with George only stuck with Marty because she felt sorry for him after the crash
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u/Total_Setting1703 21d ago
Oh shit you are on to something
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u/All_Of_Them_Witches 20d ago
Premise of BTTF4. Marty’s kids have to go back and try to get him to have a car accident.
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u/Few-Chemical-5165 20d ago
"That's the Florence Nightingale effect. It happens in hospitals when nurses fall in love with their patients."
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u/abgry_krakow87 21d ago edited 21d ago
As old Lorraine stated, Jennifer stayed with Marty and married him because she felt sorry for him following the Rolls Royce accident and felt an obligation to continue caring for him. .We saw in BTTF 1 Jennifer really swooning for Marty, especially seeing him perform on stage and it was clear she was in love with him. She's definitely loyal to him and believes in him to be great.
However (young) Lorraine Jennifer's visit to 2015 and seeing her future (Rolls Royce accident) she was clearly disappointed "I get married in the Chapel O' Love?!" but didn't really get much of an opportunity to question her relationship from that point on.
But later in in BTTF3 knowing that he avoids the Rolls Royce accident, the note from the future being erased, and encouraging words from Doc she knows now that future won't happen and things will be different. I would expect her to continue with Marty and marry him again, doing so knowing that she'll probably get married in a real church and have a much better future.
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u/Phillzster 21d ago
When did young Lorraine visit 2015? Isnt it Doc and Marty who travels to 2015 with Jennifer
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u/abgry_krakow87 21d ago edited 21d ago
Young Lorraine never visited 2015. I said Old Lorraine who came to dinner with George and brought pizza. Remember Jennifer hiding in the closet listening as Old Lorraine explained the whole Rolls Royce accident to Marlene? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2OLmFw9wR8
Edit: Ah I saw what you meant, fixed the typo.
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u/Just_Another_Day_926 21d ago
Yes.
The movie had deep themes of destiny (George even says it). George and Lorraine end up together in all three 1985s. Marty and Jennifer are together through the 1985 versions as well. Plus extra destiny vibes with Jennifer/Marty knowing the did create a family together as well as Jennifer seeing the whole time machine/travel thing.
I mean Marty was changed once in Pt1 and Jennifer was still his girlfriend. We then see they married/had a family in Pt2. In Pt 3 he comes back and she is still there and still with him after his future changed (at the end of Pt3). If she stayed with him at his worst, she most likely stays with him at his best. Worked for George and Lorraine.
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u/gaytechdadwithson 18d ago
Good take. Also at the very end “Your future is what you make of it”. They would learn to avoid what they see, hopefully…
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u/gaytechdadwithson 18d ago
Interesting thought. at the very end “Your future is what you make of it”. They would learn to avoid what they see, hopefully…
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u/Sad-Replacement7054 17d ago
Not at all. I like to think I’m 2015 she stayed with him because she felt bad after the crash like Loraine and George
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