Discussion YMMV / BackToTheFuture1

• The fact that the Doc was willing to work with terrorists (albeit to rip them off) is treated relatively lightly by comparison to how it almost certainly would have been post-9/11 is jarring to a 21st-century audience. Whilst it comes with predictably brutal consequences (it gets better), demonstrating why exactly messing around with terrorists is a bad idea, Marty seems much more shocked that the time machine is nuclear-powered and the Doc had to (illegally) acquire plutonium to power it than the precise details of how.

wut... Doc didn't WORK for the terrorists, he SCAMED them. Ignoring the fact that you'll be far more likely to find a terrorist who learned of a physicist and "recruited" him at gunpoint than a physicist who put a newspaper ad of "Does anyone want help building a nuke?", the fact is, the terrorists asked him to make a nuke for them which he DIDN'T do. The movie isn't exactly clear on how their "cooperation" came to be, but it's clear what they wanted his help with and how it turned out. There is nothing he did FOR the terrorist, so how is screwing them over supposed to be VD?