Talk:The Organization/@comment-71.246.27.86-20131229200039/@comment-25597633-20160509145800

Aside from Marty's sudden heroic adaptability and resolve, there's still all the other failures. They don't have a very high failure rate, at least at the Facility. Yet six other rituals have failed already that night. If a ritual has an average of 1/3 chance of failing, which seems high, then there's less than a 0.0457% chance of total failure each year. 1/4 gets you down to 0.0061%, and the impression I got was that it wasn't even that high.

I think it's not inconceivable that the Ancient Ones decided to screw the ritual up, which is actually rather nice of them. I don't think they're actually bound by the rituals, since they can change the rules to fit their preferences. This means they're voluntarily giving humanity a chance. Or maybe some of the Ancient Ones like the rituals and some don't, and it's the ones that don't that are screwing it up to piss off the ones that do.

Alternatively, most movies are based around at least one massive coincidence, because that's the interesting bit.