17th Apr 2019
Through the Valley of Shadows - S2-E12
Stupidity: Burnham and Spock find one person alive from the otherwise-dead crew, miraculously. They know Control can infect humans, they know how advanced it is, the entire setup screams "trap", and yet they don't even question whether Gant even might be under Control's...well, control. A simple scan would have turned up anomalies and they could have avoided what followed.
5th Apr 2019
Continuity mistake: As Audrey and Drew struggle with the gun, in the shot behind Morgan, Drew has his arms around Audrey, with the gun up by her chest. Cut to a closer shot and the gun's much lower, below his arms, by Audrey's stomach. (01:40:20)
5th Apr 2019
Continuity mistake: After the gym rescue, Sebastian is explaining what's on the drive and leaning forwards. The angle changes as the door opens, and he's suddenly leaning back in his chair.
5th Apr 2019
Stupidity: Henshaw knocks out Duffer and handcuffs him to the steering wheel in order to go in alone and save the women, but this highly-trained agent somehow doesn't think to take Duffer's radio, meaning of course, as soon as he wakes up he can call to have the place blown up as he was going to before.
4th Apr 2019
Continuity mistake: When they're in the cafe in Vienna, Kate McKinnon's arms are all over the place depending on the angle. First shot from the front she's using a spoon and fork, then from behind her left hand is empty on the table. Cut to front, then back, and suddenly she's leaning on the table with her left arm while eating with her right. Then from the front both hands are suddenly empty and she's leaning forwards with her arms crossed. Side shot and the fork is back in her right hand.
4th Apr 2019
Continuity mistake: Just after escaping from the apartment near the start, after saying they're not going to hide in a Pilates Plus, we see a wide shot of them speeding through an intersection, with empty road behind them. Cuts to inside with the conversation continuing, and there's a car directly behind them.
4th Apr 2019
4th Apr 2019
Plot hole: Michael uses herself as bait to trap her future self, putting her own life in jeopardy with the reasoning that her future self will come back to save her. All well and good, except they have a backup plan with the doctor to resuscitate her if needed, meaning her life isn't really at risk, or nowhere near as much as might be implied. And her future self would undoubtedly know that, having lived through it in the past, so not swoop in to save her. Or even if she did come, would also know it was a trap.
Suggested correction: ***SPOILER ALERT*** But, as it turns out, The Red Angel that comes to save her is NOT Michael, but her mother, who would not necessarily have known about the backup plan.
***SPOILER ALERT*** That it was her mother doesn't stop it being a plot hole since they thought The Red Angel was future Michael, and future Michael would know that present Michael wasn't really in danger so they weren't presenting a situation, _according to what they believed_, that required future Michael to act. It being the mother was a plot twist that created a motivation to act that the present people had no reason to think would exist. Basically, unless they presume a split timeline (i.e. this present is a different past than The Red Angel lived through), making a trap for future Michael that present Michael is involved in makes no logical sense.
Alternatively, Michael would have to come back, KNOWING it was a trap, to prevent the timeline unravelling.
The point of the exercise is they were setting a trap. If it didn't work, then Michael wouldn't have to come back to "prevent the timeline unravelling (sic)", even if that were a thing - it presupposes a fixed, unalterable timeline, which goes against their attempt to send the data to the future to protect it, and thereby alter the future. Even with an unalterable timeline, it would only work if future Michael had chosen to allow herself to be trapped, but in that case why wouldn't future Michael just voluntarily come back to help? Since her being trapped wasn't a certainty, there was no reason to think she would be given that the current Michael, and therefore also future Michael, knows a trap has been set, but one that doesn't actually threaten current Michael. The whole premise of the trap, under their assumption that The Red Angel was future Michael, is completely flawed and made no logical sense.
The fact that The Red Angel was in the future, and that they had a backup plan meant that The Red Angel never should have come back in time, ever. Because the backup plan would be the recorded history, thus, she never would have died. Thus, nothing to save. Face it, everything in Discovery is a plot hole.
26th Mar 2019
Factual error: The scenes set at Wrestlemania XXX (2014) were filmed at a RAW show in 2018 - fans are visible in the background wearing wrestling merchandise more recent than 2014.
7th Mar 2019
25th Feb 2019
Question: Why are the computers in the office on "our" side so outdated? Phones aren't, and we see computers elsewhere that are modern. People get visas to come through into the world as a whole, so they'll see technological differences there - why keep the office so behind the times?
Answer: Great question, this bothered me too. Throughout the series, both sides take extraordinary measures to protect their technologies, but several times allow people to enter on official visas with unsupervised access. This is a plot mistake.
24th Feb 2019
Stupidity: When XS and Killer Frost arrive on the rooftop, Iris doesn't think to shout "watch out, he just threw his knife so it'll be coming back any second"?
24th Feb 2019
Trivia: Sandra Bullock speaks German at the Met Gala - she's actually fluent in German, having lived in Germany and Austria for the first 12 years of her life. She gave an award speech in German once: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BK1GlyGdm4.
7th Feb 2019
Trivia: This episode marks the 300th episode of Supernatural.
7th Feb 2019
Trivia: This film marks the first time an actor in a modern Batman suit could actually turn his head (the lycra 60s version notwithstanding). From the 1989 Batman through to Batman Begins, all the costumes had the same limitation - the actor's head was basically immobile.
7th Feb 2019
Trivia: Sherloque develops a crush on Renee Adler, a clear play on "Irene Adler" from other Sherlock Holmes media. Although only appearing in one book, in TV shows/movies Irene is frequently a love interest of Holmes.
6th Feb 2019
The Book of Rebellion: Chapter Three: Angelitos Negros - S2-E10
Stupidity: The SWAT van transporting Khalil comes upon the most obvious setup in the history of setups, a crashed car with a miraculously unharmed woman lying in the street next to it, one arm suspiciously out of view. And of course one highly trained SWAT agent, instead of going in with backup, circling around for a proper look, or driving around (as his teammate suggests) or anything similar, wanders over and is immediately killed for his trouble. And then of course despite being surrounded by armed cops, she somehow manages to kill all of them without a problem (offscreen of course, because there's no way to believably show her single handedly killing about 20 cops).
1st Feb 2019
Other mistake: In the hotel room shootout, bullets are being fired through the wall easily and tearing up the place as you'd expect. Frank then dives through the damaged wall and they shoot at each other with Frank behind a cupboard and Pilgrim behind an internal wall. But bullets empties into both of these bits of flimsy cover leave the men behind them miraculously unscathed.
31st Jan 2019
Factual error: People taking cover behind very small / flimsy things, like car doors or wardrobes, dozens of bullets being fired at them, but they emerge unscathed.
31st Jan 2019
Legend of the Dark Knight: Ruin - S5-E4
Continuity mistake: When Ed is trying to take the Blackgate folder from Lucius, the way it's held between them changes between shots.
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