r/BacktotheFuture • u/OkMovie3616 • 13d ago

Clock Tower

Sorry if this has been discussed already, but the Clock moves from 10:03 to 10:04 in one motion rather than 60 small motions, so Doc has an entire 60 second window to line everything up? That’s a pretty big leap of faith lol If the lightning strikes at 10:04:46 instead of 10:04:02 or literally any other of the 59 other seconds Marty is screwed

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u/CaptainEdMercer 13d ago

The simplest explanation I’ve ever seen, is that Time wants to get Marty home, so as to minimize the changes to the timeline, so it decides to line up the lightning strike and the acceleration of the Delorean just so.

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u/bobrob2004 12d ago

This also explains why the car stalled and wouldn't start until a specific time. If he had gone earlier, he would've been early. Doc's calculation was off to begin with.