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The Starzl Mutation - S3-E10

Continuity mistake: When Top tackles the villain into the water his black jacket has a huge NTSC logo on the back. The show cuts to commercial and when returns the villain and Tom fight in the water however the huge NTSC logo is gone from Tom's jacket. They wrestle under water and the villain floats face down to the surface revealing the back of a black jacket. The show attempts to add tension by tricking the viewer into not knowing if it's Tom or the villain's black jacket. (00:37:05)

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Night of Terror - S1-E6

Continuity mistake: At the beginning when the lady at check in is passed out on the floor, she is right up against the desk, but when Lois goes behind to tend to her, she is further away from the desk, and closer to the wall.

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Re-Entry - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: When Molly is in space, alone, a man she knew is on The Other Side of a door that has a circular window in it. The man uses his finger to draw the words "HELP ME." When we first see the words, they are legible and about a third of the way below the top of the window, but the next time the words are much higher up and hard to read, and the third time they are now back to the original place.

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There Is No Normal Anymore - S1-E2

Continuity mistake: The beautiful blonde visitor takes a picture of herself on Tyler's phone. However, we get a perfect view of her as she concentrates to take the snap (looking very serious and studious, barely showing her teeth), but when we see the picture she is wearing a classic toothy smile right across her face. (00:23:00)

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Emergency Marineville - S1-E11

Continuity mistake: When the second group of Spearhead jets take off from Marineville there are only two jets, but in the next shot you can see three jets, and in the next shot there are two again.

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A Reptile Dysfunction - S5-E8

Continuity mistake: When the couple is in the boat when the creature appears, the woman is taking a picture and holding her phone in her left hand, she turns around and her left hand is raised and her right hand is on the boat edge. When the camera angle changes, her left hand is now on the boat and her right hand is lowered and holding the phone (confirmed when the camera angle changes again and she's in the same position, holding the phone in her right hand).

Bishop73

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Runaways - S1-E5

Continuity mistake: Fet is in the sewer looking for rats and encounters a group of infected. He is holding a handkerchief to his face with his left hand to mask the smell. He has his flashlight in his right hand, and pulls out an iron bar with his left. As the camera angle changes, his left hand is again covering his mouth with the handkerchief (no iron bar), then the angle changes again, and he's holding the iron bar again. (00:35:05)

DavidRTurner

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Maps and Legends - S1-E2

Continuity mistake: When Lieutenant Narissa Rizzo appears in holo form in the last scene of the episode, the two pins of her rank on her right breast initially are attached together (as if the two magnets have been placed too close together and ended up being pulled to one another). During the first part of the scene they go back and forth between being joined and separated. (00:40:45)

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The Two Deaths of Jamie B. - S2-E4

Continuity mistake: When Kirsten and Fisher are talking, Kirsten is picking up and holding various Christmas items. When Fisher says he's not the best person to give relationship advice, there's shot of Kirsten and you can tell she's not holding anything. In the next shot her arms are full again.

Bishop73

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Triumvirate of Terror! - S3-E8

Continuity mistake: Back at their kingdom, Wonder Woman and her mom are sitting and talking as they watch the fighting before them. The mother turns her head towards Wonder Woman in a close up and says "Oh please. It's just one little contest." It then changes to a wide shot again and suddenly her mom is looking straight forward. (00:10:45)

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Koriand'r - S1-E10

Continuity mistake: Gar enters a room and leaves the door open. Throughout the whole mirror scene the door is also open both when the camera looks at him and when the camera points at the mirror. However, when he is about to leave the room he needs to open the door as it has been closed inbetween us looking at Gar in the mirror and looking at him normally. (00:17:50 - 00:18:35)

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Episode #1.15 - S1-E15

Continuity mistake: When Miles jumps off the ferry to swim ashore, the camera view is from the ferry: he jumps into quiet, fairly level water, yet the camera recedes from him (he jumped off the back of the boat as the camera continues moving with the boat). The angle changes and we see the wake of the boat - but it's not what he jumped into.

David R Turner

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Continuity mistake: In Episode 1, Nora tells Nathan that he isn't supposed to know if she is a human or AI, but later on in the season when the egg hunt is announced, it is clear that the prize is virtual funds for the Uploads, and actual cash for the Angels.

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Behold, a Distant Star - S2-E10

Continuity mistake: When Sue is talking about her father going into hiding, the camera is on the right side of a photo album, showing a newspaper clipping of him being wanted for murder. When the shot changes, the contents of that page are now three different photographs. (00:07:32)

Phaneron

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Battle Scars - S1-E7

Continuity mistake: When Echo prepares to calibrate the surgical pod, he has a bandage on his head, even though the members of the Bad Batch don't get their control chips removed until near the end of the episode. (00:14:11)

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Seeds - S1-E12

Continuity mistake: When Jemma, Skye, and Ward are at the Academy it is daytime. When Seth and Donnie are in the parking garage it is night time briefly. Then, it becomes daytime when they flash back to Ward, and remains daytime when they flash to Seth and Donnie.

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Down Down Down - S1-E3

Continuity mistake: In her rooftop fight with Tommy, Batwoman opens with a batarang, then sends him face down kicking him from behind. They wrestle some, and the railgun goes off once. In a wide shot when she punches him in the midsection a few times while he is trapped in an armlock, you can see the gun on the ground. He had it in hand in the previous shot and is still in his possession later. (00:35:00)

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