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18th Jan 2022

Welcome to Free Will

Factual error: The newspaper you find in Chapter 2 with the "Dead body found in the mountains" headline bears the wrong date; "Friday June 17, 2020" never existed, since it was a Wednesday.

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18th Jan 2022

Ghostbusters 2 (1989)

Stupidity: Suspension of disbelief is fine for a movie like this, but even as a child I found unbelievably silly the fact that the Ghostbusters use a Nintendo controller to move the Statue of Liberty. The concept is never set up and never is shown properly; all the movie showed and told us was that items possessed by the slime dance wildly to the beat of music. There's no logical (as in, movie internal logic) passage between that and "so we fire up some beats and it won't start dancing to it, but just calmly move according to our inputs on a joystick."

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The Hong Kong Kowloon Treasure Murder Case File 4 - S1-E4

Plot hole: Miyuki has been peacefully waiting for over a day at a stranger's house because she was told that the whole Hong Kong was under lockdown and her friends were in another location. That cover story (which would have been exposed if only she looked out of the window, people were NOT in lockdown) does not explain at all the kidnapping in the clothing stall or why she didn't have her phone or talk to Hajime at any point. She'd have to be braindead not to question even slightly what was happening.

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The Hong Kong Kowloon Treasure Murder Case File 2 - S1-E2

Plot hole: An essential part of the plot relies on the fact that thanks to Saki's handheld camera, Kindaichi can examine Ran's arse dragon and therefore investigate even in her absence. But what set the plot in motion was the fact that Ran appeared in a professional modelling photoshoot displaying it. Stupidity of the girl aside, that means that the culprit never needed the girl, having HQ shots of the tattoo at their disposal. They even work for the company.

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The Hong Kong Kowloon Treasure Murder Case File 1 - S1-E1

Stupidity: Saki is a high-schooler visiting Hong Kong with his parents, but at no point do they communicate; the plot unfolds for days without the slightest mention of them, mentioned again in one throwaway line in the last episode. He even has to sleep on the floor cooped up at the bellboy's house with Kindaichi.

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Continuity mistake: In the opening scene, the guy bothered by Kris Kringle about the authenticity of the reindeer display is leaning in different positions between the front angle and its reverse. (00:02:00)

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Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the movie, Miyoko has a drink in her hand while she frustrates the advances of her purple-sweatered coworker. Her grip on the chalice differs depending on the camera angle. (00:01:25)

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17th Jan 2022

Black Nativity (2013)

Continuity mistake: Langston is speaking to his mom on the phone. The reverend is by the entrance. When Langston says "Oh, I understand" you can see that the red scarf pops in view at different heights between the wide shots and the tighter angle. (00:46:40)

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Continuity mistake: Mrs. Lopez asks Allie about the creative writing assignment. During two close-ups on Hallee Hirsh when the teacher lists the specs of this homework, she has part of her right pigtail in front of her shoulder, but in the rest of the scene that part of her hair is behind her back. (00:05:00)

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Continuity mistake: When Mrs. Lopez calls Allie out as she is working on her illuminated manuscript, the object of her attention drops the pen before turning around. In the next shot he's holding the same pen in hand. (00:04:55)

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Continuity mistake: While the mother mentions that they need to align the Christmas schedules, Joey fetches the juice tetrapack from the other end of the counter twice in two separate shots. (00:03:20)

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Continuity mistake: Allie's brother asks their dad (who just finished pitching the "bones for bowsers dot com " idea to Sam) "How long are you gonna be gone this time." He raises and lowers the hands in the same shot, and in the next the hands are raised again. (00:03:15)

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17th Jan 2022

What If...? (2021)

What If... Ultron Won? - S1-E8

Plot hole: Ultron cuts through Thanos like butter and acquires the Infinity Stones. He does so after he kills all life on the planet (-2). So Thanos has all the Stones (except Vision/Ultron's) years earlier than normal continuity, for no reason. Not just that; Ultron proceeds then to 'silence' the rest of the universe one planet at a time (which would take forever; Thanos wanted the gems exactly to avoid doing that and make genocide efficient). Amongst those planets, one where he fights The Guardians of the Galaxy, including...Gamora, who should be dead or Thanos could have never got the Soul gem.

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17th Jan 2022

What If...? (2021)

What If... Ultron Won? - S1-E8

Stupidity: For some reason, Ultron's Mind Stone is a death ray thousand times more powerful than anything ever seen; not only it one-shots Thanos wearing all the other stones, but effortlessly dissolves the star-forged Gauntlet that is meant to withstand the power of all gems combined.

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17th Jan 2022

What If...? (2021)

What If... Ultron Won? - S1-E8

Other mistake: Ultron exterminates the world population quite literally nuking the planet. Black Widow and Hawkeye survive because they are in the air during the global inferno (that's not really how it works) and for the rest of the episode they saunter about on a world full of the deadliest level of radiation in a nuclear winter (electricity and cellular phones work, too).

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17th Jan 2022

What If...? (2021)

What If... The Watcher Broke His Oath? - S1-E9

Stupidity: Infinity Stones are so particular to each universe that a gem-destroying tool coming from another universe can't do anything to them, but on the other hand Ultron has no problem using them in any other universe, including where The Watcher is hidden, which should be extraneous to space and time much like the TVA (where the stones are worthless paper weights).

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17th Jan 2022

What If...? (2021)

What If... Zombies?! - S1-E5

Other mistake: Dialogue when the heroes locate the base; "The beacon's location was corrupted in transit, we have no idea where it came from." "Well, it looks to me your message is in non-linear hexacode" "That location looks familiar, Agent Carter?" And Sharon instantly identifies it. It may make sense when you write it, but not when there's no pause between sentences and no 'location' is shown. From "We have no idea where it comes from" to "Does it *look* familiar?" through a non-sequitur. (00:08:00)

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17th Jan 2022

Jet Robot (1975)

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