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, wo...