The ‘Lockard Theory’ discussed in the YouTube video above draws from Robert Lockard’s August 2014 article in The Deja Reviewer, ‘Great Scott! The Entire Back to the Future Trilogy Is One Big Chiasmus.’ Rudie Obias brought this to a larger reading public in September 2016’s Mental Floss piece, ‘Back to the Future Fan Theory Suggests the Trilogy is an Elaborate Chiasmus.’

Mike Klimo, writing at roughly the same time as Lockard, gathered his online writing about the ring structure of the then six Star Wars movies on a website dedicated to the subject in time for Halloween in 2014. The consequent article, epic in title and scope, is ‘RING THEORY – The Hidden Artistry of the Star Wars
Prequels: How George Lucas used an ancient technique called “ring composition” to reach a level of storytelling sophistication in his six-part saga that is unprecedented in cinema history‘ I wrote about it at HogwartsProfessor; see George Lucas’ Star Wars — a Ring Composition for that exegesis, and, incredibly, for his letter of thanks to me for my ring composition work on the Harry Potter series. Emily Strand discussed the structure of ‘A Force Awakens’ along these same lines.

I found the Back to the Future links above while trying to find a home in my gmail account for the writings about chiasmus by ‘Cormac Jones,’ whose brilliant ‘Cosmic Chiasmus’ I discussed here in 2022 and whose Substack page I found only last week (and to which I promptly subscribed). My search for a ‘Ring Composition’ home for posts from that site as they come into my inbox revealed that, yes, indeed, I did have a dedicated folder for that subject. Looking through the few emails in the file, I stumbled on a link from Louise Freeman about the Lockard theory. A belated thank you to her!