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Elliot took me on a special field trip yesterday to Bloomingdale's where, for some reason, the delorean from the 2nd back to the future movie was sitting at the entrance.

Elliot looking it over like a predator.

I think what's so cool and great about this car is that all the time travel stuff is so clearly added on.  The idea that it was built by a nutty old inventor and not by a team of car designers.  The delorean itself is beautiful and interesting and then there are all of these garish add ons that look like parts from a junkyard.  And yet its unmistakable and still looks so friggin' cool even this many years later.

I was reading a thing online about how there is a fan theory about how Doc Brown was trying to kill himself.  That the story about falling in the bathroom and hitting his head was actually his first attempt but then he gets the idea for the flux capacitor so he builds the time machine.  The scene in the parking lot is supposed to be his final attempt at success after a life of failed inventions.  He remotely controls the delorean driving around the parking lot, aims it at himself and Marty, then drives it up to 88 miles an hour.  The time machine is successful so they both live, but if it had been a failure like all his others it would have killed them both there in the parking lot.  This makes it even more disturbing that he grabs Marty at the last minute and forces him to stay standing with him.

And what of Einstein then?  He was still in the car, a helpless passenger on this suicide mission.  I guess the delorean would have continued driverless, crashed through the wall of the mall, and ended up in the entrance to Bloomingdale's.