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So he left Jennifer in a nightmare 1985? And didn't go rescue her? Scum!


Firstly, Marty let Doc knock her out. "Well you're the Doc, Doc."

Then she wakes up and sees herself. She conventionally faints.

Mostly when you faint you wake up after a few slaps in the face.

They don't do this.

They travel back to 1985 and leave her on a swing on her porch.

What?!?! She's a teenage girl. A minor.

The doc says she will probably be out for a few hours!

So they ditch Jennifer, Marty returns to his home, discovers he doesn't live there and quickly rushes back to get Jennifer! Oh wait, that didn't happen.

She is forgotten.

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I think I read that the writers didn't know what to do with Jennifer in this movie.
So they just kept her sedated or passed out most of the time, so she would stay out of focus.

But when you put it that way, it is a bit weird that Marty would just abandon his unconscious girlfriend like that.
He seems to have just trusted Doc's judgement, so we could move on with the story.

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There's nothing scummy about it. How is she more 'rescued' by knowing about 'the nightmare 1985' and having to live in it consciously, and having to go back to 1955 and sleep there? Nothing bad can happen to her, because from her perspective, reality changed INSTANTLY around her to the good 1985, and ALSO from her perspective, she fainted in a 'dreamy future', and woke up in 'normal 1985'.

What's to rescue and why? Rescue FROM WHAT?!

Some people really have difficulty thinking fourth-dimensionally. She's not left anywhere, and she doesn't need rescuing, when you have a TIME MACHINE.

Even if it takes 200 years for Marty and Doc to change the timeline, the end result is still the same; from her perspective, she's never in any danger, and as soon as Marty and Doc leave the 'nightmare 1985', everything instantly changed into 'normal 1985' from her perspective, and she even remains unconscious.

Even if she was murdered in the 'nightmare 1985', it wouldn't matter, because she would become 'un-murdered' in the 'normal 1985'.

The only problem is, she was put to her veranda or whatever in the 'nightmare 1985', so how come she's there in the 'normal 1985'? I mean, Doc and Marty would have to have carried her there ALSO in the 'normal 1985' for some reason, and ..

..well, it's a time-travel movie, the more you think about these things, the less anything makes sense.

But there's no 'scum' element here, EVEN IF you think as stupidly as you can, because Marty and Doc's motivations are pure, and they genuinely BELIEVE nothing bad can happen to her, because reality will change 'around her'.

It's the MOTIVATION that makes someone 'scum', so what's your motivation trying to paint Marty and Doc as scum??

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I think it's obviously because they didn't want to pay the actress more money or have her be a main character in part 3. Then again, Marty and Doc are sure they can change the timeline back to the way it was so they just leave Jenniffer since she will be safe once they stop Biff and keep him from getting what he wants.

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yeah I got in trouble with my parents for asking that as a little kid re they ditched Jennifer. Most kids don't notice that.

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You got a good heart. 💗

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I don't know if it was 'good' I was just the type of little kid who asked questions about everything.

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