Yeah so I'm trying to figure out why saving JFK cause the destruction of what seemed to be all of America. Or at least that town.
shareA string of bad presidents ruined the United State. Without the good leadership of USA, the world is also ruined.
shareThis is a case where books can go into so much more detail than movies can. In the book it was a lot more clear why preventing JFK's assassination caused all that turmoil and for the world basically to implode. The reason is simple; the past is obdurate. It doesn't want to be changed. In the book, there was a lot more time for SK to go into how Jake Epping's little changes caused ripple effects. He saved the janitor's family from being axed by their father, for example, but (I think) two of the brothers end up dying in Vietnam. There was also another sequence involving a young girl who was accidentally shot by hunters and paralyzed and things didn't work out so well for her, either.
In both the movie and the book it was jarring for Jake to come back to the present and find out it had been turned into 1985B on steroids from Back to the Future 2. One of the triumphs of the movie is in how they showed how painful it was for Jake to go back and set things right.
It was quite a book. I like how time pushed against him to stop the future from changing. It was more stuble. Also it gave time for the card players to be introduced as the changes made them go insane.
shareThe cliched non explanation would be: the past pushed back. That's up there along with the Dawn of the Dead's explanation for the dead walking: when there is no more room in hell the dead will walk the earth.
George Wallace getting elected might not necessarily mean there was a huge backlash to Kennedy's civil rights agenda. Before he used racist rhetoric he was actually a moderate and did some good things for blacks. It was only after he got beat in the governors race by a racist that he swore that it would never happen again. Later he would recant his racist views. He was quite the opportunist and once made his wife run for the governorship of Alabama so he could rule behind her. Apparently he kept her cancer secret from her in order for it to not interfere with his ambitions, she ended up dying.
Interestingly he was also assassinated and ended up in a wheelchair for the rest of his life. His shooter was motivated by fame.
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Because messing with the past can have unexpected results.
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