Sammo

12th Apr 2020

Death in Paradise (2011)

Episode #4.7 - S4-E7

Factual error: Phony computer shenanigans happen when JP shows the rest of the gang the file he recovered from the trash; he plays a PX (Pixel32 file, unless it's meant to be some file for a fictitious app) like it's a full HD amazing video, straight from the bin without recovering it first. (00:33:05)

Sammo

12th Apr 2020

Death in Paradise (2011)

12th Apr 2020

Death in Paradise (2011)

Episode #4.7 - S4-E7

Continuity mistake: There are two separate scenes in a market area. In the first, Dwayne is working his special islander charm and explains to JP in person and to DI Goodman on phone something about an altercation the victim had with the tour guide Bill Williams. They go from the station to his impounded office and interview him. Then they reach Dwayne and JP back at the market. Many minutes must have passed then, and yet in both scenes there are always the same extras (guy with a red and white striped tee, for instance) as passersby. (00:25:50 - 00:28:05)

Sammo

12th Apr 2020

Death in Paradise (2011)

Episode #4.7 - S4-E7

Continuity mistake: Humphrey is rewriting the timeline of the murder (s); he adds 12 AM on the board, and the green line is touching the red number two. That's in the wide angles, because in close-up when he adds "Suffucated", the line is shorter and does not touch the hour anymore. But the mistake does not end here; when he walks away after this close-up, you can see that the time written on board is back to "3 AM", the wrong one. (00:24:20)

Sammo

12th Apr 2020

Death in Paradise (2011)

Episode #4.7 - S4-E7

Continuity mistake: Dwayne chickens out of the team-building exercise and the phone rings. Goodman puts momentarily his hands to his hips but leaves instantly the position letting the jacket loose - yet at the cut with everyone trying to storm back in saying "I'll get it", he has still his hands on the hips, keeping the jacket pulled back. (00:22:45)

Sammo

12th Apr 2020

Death in Paradise (2011)

Episode #4.7 - S4-E7

Continuity mistake: After the failed team-building exercise, news from the pathologist reopen the case. In the close-up of Danny John-Jules saying "Great...", he has his hands on his hips, but in the rest of the sequence his arms are along his sides. (00:23:20)

Sammo

12th Apr 2020

Death in Paradise (2011)

Episode #4.7 - S4-E7

Continuity mistake: Impervious to hangovers as usual, DI Goodman is back at work in the morning. During the scene, DS Florence Cassell's hair is messy when the camera is to her right staring at Dwayne, way more neat in the shots of the room with the camera to her left. (00:21:50)

Sammo

12th Apr 2020

Death in Paradise (2011)

Episode #4.7 - S4-E7

Continuity mistake: A drunk Izzy Cartwright puts her hands all over DI Goodman's face. She sobs with Goodman's head between her hands, index and middle finger in front of the ear - next shot and she is holding that pose but now in the preauricular position we have only the index. (00:21:15)

Sammo

12th Apr 2020

Death in Paradise (2011)

Episode #4.7 - S4-E7

Continuity mistake: At Catherine's, Goodman witnesses the sister of the victim being drunk and disorderly. He leans with his arm on the back of the chair to get a better view, but blatantly in the reverse shot he also raises his hand to rest his chin on it - all gone when we get back to the original angle. (00:20:50)

Sammo

12th Apr 2020

Death in Paradise (2011)

12th Apr 2020

Death in Paradise (2011)

Episode #4.7 - S4-E7

Continuity mistake: JP arrives at the station holding the evidence bag with the gun. When he gives it to Florence, the action is repeated in two shots, and the gun lies in the evidence bag in a position that mirrors the initial one. (00:15:25)

Sammo

12th Apr 2020

Death in Paradise (2011)

Episode #4.7 - S4-E7

Character mistake: Annette Burgess calls herself an "Inspirational entrepreneuress." That word just does not exist. It's 'female entrepreneur", or "entrepreneuse." (00:11:55)

Sammo

Character mistake: In KOF95, Chapter 3, scenario "Their older sister", the protagonist's box of text says, in reaction to Noah gloating over the supposed cowardice of the "Man with a black mask"; "They're not the eyes of a man who realised concedes defeat."

Sammo

12th Apr 2020

Death in Paradise (2011)

Episode #4.7 - S4-E7

Continuity mistake: Humphrey pulls out of the padded envelope a roll of "sticky tape." In the reverse shot, the slip of paper he scribbles on sticks out considerably more than before. (00:06:55)

Sammo

12th Apr 2020

Death in Paradise (2011)

Episode #4.7 - S4-E7

Continuity mistake: Florence states unequivocally that she does not want the plant next to her; she says it with a hand on her hip, which becomes a hand in mid-air in the next shot. (00:04:55)

Sammo

12th Apr 2020

Death in Paradise (2011)

Episode #4.7 - S4-E7

Continuity mistake: When the host of the conch game says "One condition; it must include..." he has his hand open, left one off the conch, and in the next shot both are on the item. (00:01:10)

Sammo

12th Apr 2020

Death in Paradise (2011)

Episode #4.6 - S4-E6

Plot hole: The killer is able to dupe the victim into hiding at the back of a car promising that they will bring a certain someone on a bench and get them to talk about a very bad thing they've been doing, so the designated victim can record the conversation with their phone. This requires the victim to be outrageously stupid; the car, with a closed trunk the victim is hidden in, is parked at distance from the bench; the microphone of her phone would never record that far, and nobody would believe their own phone can work that way, especially when they can hide the phone in a sports bag by the bench, the bushes, the gaps in the bricks or just demand that their supposed friend carries the phone herself. Also, the killer couldn't be sure that the device wouldn't say something about what they were doing (as often happens before you start a recording; you state the time, place, purpose of the recording, plus all the other content of the phone she didn't have time and chance to review!), but makes no attempt to make the phone disappear.

Sammo

12th Apr 2020

Death in Paradise (2011)

Episode #4.6 - S4-E6

Continuity mistake: At the end of the episode, in a stellar endorsement of Catherine's hospitality JP says that it's better than the prison cell. During the sequence Tobi Bakare's hands are on/off the bottle repeatedly. (00:50:25)

Sammo

12th Apr 2020

Death in Paradise (2011)

Episode #4.6 - S4-E6

Continuity mistake: Maz Shipley confesses to the bribe and says it was "For Mum." Her teammate looks away from her, but in the next shot she is still looking at her and turns her head only after. (00:33:55)

Sammo

12th Apr 2020

Death in Paradise (2011)

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