Continuity mistake: Florence hands to her boss the freshly printed picture of Elliot Taylor using opposite hands in the shot and its reverse. (00:15:30)
Sammo
22nd Apr 2020
Death in Paradise (2011)
22nd Apr 2020
Death in Paradise (2011)
Deliberate mistake: Florence and Humphrey set up the scene using a printer that is nothing short of magical; the photos, in color, come out from the machine the instant that Florence displays the profile on screen. It is obviously done to speed up the scene - however, Florence could have printed the pictures beforehand and hand them to Humphrey one by one as she reviews on screen the profiles, there was no need to have them come out fresh from the printer with that kind of impossibly fast timing. (00:15:00)
22nd Apr 2020
Death in Paradise (2011)
Continuity mistake: At the end of the first interview with the suspects, Florence caps Humprey's thank you to the helpful staffers with a rather unsubtle eyeroll. She changes position lowering the pen, that is on the other side and higher in the following shot, last of the scene. (00:15:00)
22nd Apr 2020
Death in Paradise (2011)
Continuity mistake: DI Humphrey Goodman debriefed his team who just arrived on the island, and is about to head out to interview the staff. Elliot Taylor passes a glass to his wife, who picks it with her right hand and places it down on the armrest with the same hand, the other one holding a bottle of medicine. Next shot, and the hands swapped contents. (00:12:20)
22nd Apr 2020
Captain Tsubasa: Dream Team
Character mistake: Story mode, Asia Qualifiers, part 1. In the second chapter of Hyuga's training scene, Maki Akamine asks him "Can you can't this one? It's my best pitch!", obviously meaning "can you CATCH this one."
22nd Apr 2020
Death in Paradise (2011)
Character mistake: The web listing for the Brompton cigarettes says that they went through a "rerevival." It's a typo, not a colourful way to say for instance "second revival". (00:24:10)
22nd Apr 2020
Death in Paradise (2011)
Continuity mistake: Humphrey tries to sneak away without waking Martha up, but being Humphrey he fails. In the shot when he stands back up after the hilarious bawl, the bed is sunlit, contradicting what is shown before and after. (00:10:10)
22nd Apr 2020
Death in Paradise (2011)
Continuity mistake: Linda Taylor brings to the inspector the keys as instructed. Goodman holds the keys and the packet of smokes at the same height, but when she is about to go away throwing a last look at the covered corpse, all of a sudden the key hand is much lower than the other. (00:09:50)
22nd Apr 2020
Death in Paradise (2011)
Continuity mistake: Humphrey shows the outside of the murder scene to his girlfriend; when he casts the torchlight on the balcony, before the cut you can spot his right arm holding the torch at the left of the frame. He is holding the torch with his left hand before and after. (00:07:25)
21st Apr 2020
Death in Paradise (2011)
Continuity mistake: Martha and Humphrey are toasting. Watch out at the moment of the long scream; both Kris Marshall and Sally Bretton hold wine glasses but those keep changing position between shots. She puts hers down, it is up again a moment, and down at the next cut, while he puts down his, releases his fingers from it, and in the next shot the fingers are still squeezing it only to release the glass again in a repetition of the gesture later. (00:03:45)
21st Apr 2020
Death in Paradise (2011)
Continuity mistake: DI Humprey Goodman and Martha Lloyd get on a boat at the beginning of the episode. Humph is to Martha's right when they begin, but midway through Martha is sitting to Humphrey's right, with her bag also switching place with Humphrey's accordingly. (00:00:35)
21st Apr 2020
Death in Paradise (2011)
The Secret of the Flame Tree - S6-E2
Continuity mistake: Before the series' opening, the camera scrolls towards the body. Esther is lying on the rocks, her feet apart. When Goodman and Florence check the body, the feet moved closer. (00:04:00 - 00:06:20)
21st Apr 2020
Death in Paradise (2011)
The Secret of the Flame Tree - S6-E2
Plot hole: For the murder to happen as described, the victim must have set an appointment at the cliff with a mentally ill, barely coherent person who spends her life holed up in a bungalow and is afraid of everyone, trusting her to remember and be on time - instead of knocking at her door and walk her to the location, that is very close. It's a complete absurdity.
21st Apr 2020
Death in Paradise (2011)
The Secret of the Flame Tree - S6-E2
Continuity mistake: After the interview unveiling the secret of the writer and her assistant, Humphrey is at the police station recapping the case. He says "Either one of them could have done it", leaning into the board, hand on his hips. Dwayne says "Maybe they were in it together?", and Humphrey's position is entirely different. (00:36:50)
21st Apr 2020
Death in Paradise (2011)
The Secret of the Flame Tree - S6-E2
Character mistake: Florence says that the verses Esther was researching were 'halfway through' the book, but Humphrey opens a page in the last 1/4 of the book. (00:29:40)
21st Apr 2020
Death in Paradise (2011)
The Secret of the Flame Tree - S6-E2
Continuity mistake: JP Identified the woman in the bungalow. Humphrey says "So Sylvie's sister, is living on her estate", with his hand on the spine of the book, and at the cut he's holding it by the bottom side. (00:26:10)
21st Apr 2020
Death in Paradise (2011)
The Secret of the Flame Tree - S6-E2
Revealing mistake: Florence shows to her boss a copy of the birth certificate of Lizzie Baptiste. It is signed "Overseas British Territory of Saint Marie", dates back to 1954 with a photostatic copy of the original typewritten entry, and her school certificate is also written in English. Saint Marie though, according to its fictional history, was part of France at the time, having been a British territory only for 30 years before Season 1 (set in 2011). (00:25:40)
21st Apr 2020
Death in Paradise (2011)
The Secret of the Flame Tree - S6-E2
Continuity mistake: When Florence hands Goodman the framed picture she got from the bar the night before, her hand position changes between shots. (00:25:30)
21st Apr 2020
Death in Paradise (2011)
The Secret of the Flame Tree - S6-E2
Revealing mistake: The sepia-toned memento that Florence spies on the wall of Chez Lulu is supposedly from 1969, certainly a photoshop horror from 2017, with the faces of the two siblings ghastly superimposed. (00:24:25)
21st Apr 2020
Death in Paradise (2011)
The Secret of the Flame Tree - S6-E2
Continuity mistake: When Catherine yeeeuchs at the name of the new candidate for mayor, pay attention to the bottle in Dwayne's hand; he holds it with his right hand only, turning into both hands, and it changes tilt between shots when he takes a sip from it. (00:22:35)
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