History Headscratchers / BackToTheFuturePartII

** Likely just urban decay.

* What exactly happened to Hilldale between 1985 and 2015? In 1985 it was implied that it started out as a very upscale upper middle class neighborhood. When Marty finds out his future home is there he gets very excited. But by 2015 it has gone to Hell and one of the cops that drops off Jennifer says the whole place should be torn down. How did Hilldale go so far downhill in only 30 years? This one can't be blamed on Biff because it was like that in the original 2015 before Biff got the almanac. It is strange also that the rest of Hill Valley in 2015 seems to be just fine...only Hilldale went bad. What happened?

** Given that he gave the full name and physical description of the person to whom the letter would be delivered to on a specific date down to the minute in seventy years, who, based on being described as a young man and from the perspective of anyone living in 1885, wouldn't even be born until many decades after the letter was written, giving those types of specifics for the location as well would hardly be the most audacious part of the letter for the couriers who accepted it. Alternatively, maybe he gave the latitude and longitude coordinates instead.

* How exactly did the Western Union guy find the exact spot Marty was standing at? Supposedly the letter gave the exact location but how? The road that led there didn't exist in 1885 so it would look extremely suspicious if Doc had wrote something like " There will be a road in 1955 that doesn't exist now and just follow it until you get to a sign advertising the new Lyon Estates housing development which will be in the process of being built by then." Obviously Doc couldn't write anything like that so how did he direct the guy to the correct location?

** Doc's an engineer. He likely bought the Mr. Fusion and attached it to the Delorean himself, thus neatly side-stepping any such awkward questions. All he'd need to know would be how to hook Mr. Fusion up to the time circuits that he wanted powered, and if he can figure out how to put a mini-nuclear reactor in there a bit of 21st century consumer electronics should be fairly straightforward. (This would also explain why Mr. Fusion ''wasn't'' hooked up to power the car as well, as revealed in the third movie, since the car mechanic could have likely also done that when they installed the flight capability.)

** Given that he gave the full name and physical description of the person to whom the letter would be delivered to on a specific date down to the minute in seventy years, who, based on being described as a young man and from the perspective of anyone living in 1885, wouldn't even be born until many decades after the letter was written, giving those types of specifics for the location as well would hardly be the most audacious part of the letter for the couriers who accepted it. Or maybe he gave the latitude and longitude coordinates instead.

** Given that he gave the full name and physical description of the person to whom the letter would be delivered to on a specific date down to the minute in seventy years, who, based on being described as a young man and from the perspective of anyone living in 1885, wouldn't even be born until many decades after the letter was written, giving those types of specifics for the location as well would hardly be the most audacious part of the letter for the couriers who accepted it.

** Given that he gave the full name and physical description of the person to whom the letter would be delivered to in seventy years, who, based on being described as a young man and from the perspective of anyone living in 1885, wouldn't even be born until many decades after the letter was written, giving those types of specifics for the location would hardly be the most audacious part of the letter for the couriers who accepted it.

** Given that he gave the full name and physical description of the person to whom the letter would be delivered to, who, from the perspective of anyone living in 1885, wouldn't even be born until many decades after the letter was written, giving those types of specifics for the location would hardly be the most audacious part of the letter.

** Given that he gave the full name and physical description of the person to whom the letter would be delivered to, who wouldn't even be born until many decades later, giving those types of specifics for the location would hardly be the most audacious part of the letter.