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re: Would you ever be open to a Back to the Future reboot? Could it not be screwed up?
Posted on 12/5/22 at 3:40 pm to DiamondDog
Posted on 12/5/22 at 3:40 pm to DiamondDog
The biggest problem with a modern day Doc Brown is it’s becoming harder to imagine a physicist/engineer homebrewing a technological innovation on the minuscule amount of wealth he had left in 1985.
Not that it was remotely possible in 1985, but there was this dirty mechanic like ethos to Doc Brown. Like you knew he was obsessed enough with his invention to figure out how to turn a water heater into a nuclear reactor. That ethos is necessary to the heart of the character.
These days, with companies like Apple making all of their gizmos non-homebrew friendly, Doc Brown would need to still be working in the corporate lab to have access to the materials. So, he’s not a fringe tinkerer building a machine on a wing and a prayer anymore.
Not that it was remotely possible in 1985, but there was this dirty mechanic like ethos to Doc Brown. Like you knew he was obsessed enough with his invention to figure out how to turn a water heater into a nuclear reactor. That ethos is necessary to the heart of the character.
These days, with companies like Apple making all of their gizmos non-homebrew friendly, Doc Brown would need to still be working in the corporate lab to have access to the materials. So, he’s not a fringe tinkerer building a machine on a wing and a prayer anymore.
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Posted on 12/5/22 at 4:06 pm to UndercoverBryologist
quote:yes - back then it was easy to believe that someone built a time machine out of a Delorian. Nowadays? I’m skeptical af.
The biggest problem with a modern day Doc Brown is it’s becoming harder to imagine a physicist/engineer homebrewing a technological innovation on the minuscule amount of wealth he had left in 1985.
Posted on 12/6/22 at 9:11 pm to UndercoverBryologist
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The biggest problem with a modern day Doc Brown is it’s becoming harder to imagine a physicist/engineer homebrewing a technological innovation on the minuscule amount of wealth he had left in 1985.
CSB time. My brother got his grad degree from MIT. Dude is literally a scientist. Anyway, for one of his research projects he built a special type of reactor. He had to order various parts to construct his creation which caused a visit from the FBI. They track this stuff. When a combination of certain components is purchased by one person you can count on the FBI to come knocking on your door.
This was in the late 1990s.
Posted on 12/7/22 at 8:32 am to UndercoverBryologist
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The biggest problem with a modern day Doc Brown is it’s becoming harder to imagine a physicist/engineer homebrewing a technological innovation on the minuscule amount of wealth he had left in 1985.
Doc notes in the movie that he wiped out his family fortune by that point, so he probably did have the initial wealth to get to a working device.
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