It's totally different than the movie we all know and love. The ending was rather tragic. When Marty came back, it was pretty much how the people in the early fifties envisioned the 1980s.

Original draft

It is an interesing read, but I am so glad that script didn't get used! It was interesting, though, to see the part where Doc refers to Xerox as X-Rox - and thinks it should be spelled Zerox. It's interesting to note that they put that part back in an earlier for Part III - where Jill Wooster's father tries to convince him to take on one of three projects, Xerox being one of them.

The ending is a bit depressing. The world becomes more advanced and a bit delayed at the same time. There were flying cars and robot servants, but no Rock 'n' Roll or bic pens.

Yeah, that's why I'm so glad the script was never used. It must have been a depressing world for Marty to return to. He may have even gone sick from insanity.

Just out of curiosity, what are your opinions about Marty from the first draft? It seems like he was a bit of a jerk, and not really as likeable as the Marty from the trilogy.

It did seem like it. Maybe the part wasn't written for MJF until later. Dave actually did exist in the first draft. At the part where Marty was in his room, it said that there's a second bed due to an older brother no longer living at home.

Well, I know Michael J Fox was still a struggling actor back in 1980. He did have a small role in a movie called Midnight Madness in that year, and he also had a part in a McDonald's advert. Maybe I should consider a crossover between the final trilogy and the first draft, one of these days. Kristen Sheley already did that in her major fic, There's No Place Like Home. I can imagine that just the confusion of him being in a very different environment would tend to really mess him up.

In this case, I wouldn't really blame him for recording songs that were originally written by rock musicians in the original timeline - as he would have the added bonus of introducting major rock classics of the old timeline to a new audience. I admit that the part of no rock and roll tends to bother me the most, and missing being able to hear all of his favourite rock tunes would probably really drive him crazy.

I already have enough fics on the queue to be written - but if I ever get around to writing a story like that, I don't think I would have Marty be quite as messed up in the new timeline. I guess it would help if he gained a new set of memories, after returning to 1982. I know not everyone, including Kristen Sheley, really subscribes to that theory - but I think it would be the easiest on everyone. I never watched Frequency - but it's my understanding that they made it a point of having memories work that way, in the movie. I especially started feeling that way, when I was writing Twins In Time.

It would also be interesting to explore what happened in the lives of the members of Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, and even Elvis Presley in that universe. Maybe Elvis Presley just stuck to singing country and gospel. As for Led Zeppelin and The Beatles, it's kind of a tough call to make. It's almost like how I speculated that Huey Lewis's band in the Biffhorrific Timeline would be Huey Lewis and The Rebels. Come to think of it, I guess there would be the bonus of John Lennon (and John Bonham) still being alive in that universe.