Wednesday, July 4, 2007

Picking at 27-year old plot holes

Today, HBO showed all three Back to the Future movies. It's a pretty good series, but you have to suspend disbelief for most of it, which is difficult for me. I watched part of II and III, and it wasn't until the end of the third that I got to thinking. It takes a while, sometimes.

Where were Emmett and Clara's kids (Jules and Vern) in the first and second movies? He introduces them in the steam-powered time-travel train that shows up at the end of BTF III, in 1985. One assumes they would be alive in 1955, so one would suspect that they would be mentioned somewhere along the way. Brown never mentions a wife, either, although his dog Einstein shows up throughout. Of course, we're not supposed to alter time, so I guess I shouldn't bring it up, lest the blog disappear like Marty's family photo. (and, wasn't that a ridiculous notion?)

And Biff Tannen.  Wouldn't the 1985 Biff recognize the 1985 Marty from his encounters with him in 1955?  And, wouldn't George McFly be weirded-out by his child, whom he met in 1955?
I suppose the three films benefit from being shown 5 years apart.

And what about Clayton Gulch? Marty says that the kids in school (in 1985) wished their teachers had dropped into it like Clara did, but Clara never did, so it was never named Clayton Gulch, and he wouldn't have talked about it in 1985 high school, because the Doc saved Clara from careening into the gulch.

My brain hurts.

6 comments:

Sparky Duck said...

Now I remember why I stopped at Back to the Future 2

rattln along said...

it was a cute series but I agree that there was too many unanswered questions. However, give them credit for the thinking and the plot that works through all three.

One thing that bothered me was that train scene at the end. Why did the crossing come down if there was not a train on the tracks at the present time? Also why did he have to land on the tracks? If he traveled back in time or forward in time, tracks did not and may not exist.

My head hurts.

Anthony said...

And the way the oncoming train smashes the Delorian to bits and keeps going, as though it hit a penny on the tracks.

I'd suspect that Marty would have been arrested long before he was able to wake up his girlfriend and take her back to the railroad tracks - where the broken nuclear reactor sat with the other busted up car parts.

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