Audio problem: While Sean and Whitney are tossing the football at the lake edge, at one point we hear Whitney catch the ball offscreen while the camera is on Sean. The camera then cuts back to Whitney and he catches the ball on screen. (00:03:20)
Phoenix
21st Jun 2004
Smallville (2001)
21st Jun 2004
Smallville (2001)

Continuity mistake: When "Lex" threatens the bank manager, he points the gun at his face, but the next shot on the manager shows the gun at his throat. (00:01:35)
21st Jun 2004
Smallville (2001)
21st Jun 2004
Smallville (2001)

Continuity mistake: Tina's grip on Lana's necklace changes as she stands over Lana's body. (00:37:30)
21st Jun 2004
Smallville (2001)
Continuity mistake: The meteors are shown traveling together in space at the beginning, but the smoke trail from the first meteorite runs perpendicular to the flight of the next one. They should be falling along roughly the same flight corridor, as all the other meteorites do. (00:00:10 - 00:04:30)
21st Jun 2004
Smallville (2001)

Continuity mistake: While researching Greg with Chloe, Clark changes from one hand on the computer mouse to arms crossed and back. (00:34:00)
21st Jun 2004
Smallville (2001)
21st Jun 2004
Smallville (2001)

Continuity mistake: After Greg hits Clark with the pipe in the foundry, Clark's hands are very dirty. In the closeup on Clark's hand immediately after he lands, the hand is clean to show the effects of the Kryptonite. (00:39:45)
21st Jun 2004
Smallville (2001)
21st Jun 2004
Smallville (2001)
21st Jun 2004
Smallville (2001)
Audio problem: When Sean flags down Whitney's truck, we hear his brakes squeal as he slams on the pedal. A few quick cuts later we see him do the same thing, apparently for the first time. (00:33:25)
21st Jun 2004
Smallville (2001)
21st Jun 2004
Smallville (2001)

Plot hole: Chloe writes her phone number on Sean's hand. It disappears when we see him struggling against the ice of the lake, then reappears in the scene where he is calling old girlfriends. And how exactly would pen ink survive several hours submerged in water and then another eight hours of normal activity without becoming blurred? (00:04:15 - 00:19:50)
21st Jun 2004
Smallville (2001)

Continuity mistake: When Sean emerges from the lake and goes to the campfire, his clothes are completely dry despite the fact that he was totally underwater for hours. (00:04:50)
21st Jun 2004
Smallville (2001)
Continuity mistake: As Sean sucks electricity at the power station, his arms are bent in the first shot and fully extended in the next. (00:31:25)
21st Jun 2004
Smallville (2001)

Continuity mistake: Despite the fact that Clark and Jonathan are looking in the rafters above them for Greg, their flashlights stay relatively level. (00:26:35)
21st Jun 2004
Smallville (2001)
Audio problem: Sean drops frozen Jenna and she shatters. He then manages to casually walk out of the room over her without crunching any of the ice. (00:17:30)
21st Jun 2004
Smallville (2001)
14th Jun 2004
Smallville (2001)
14th Jun 2004
Smallville (2001)
Deliberate mistake: Clark's CPR form is terrible. When he performs emergency breaths on Lex, Lex's chest doesn't rise and fall, indicating that he's not actually breathing much air in. He doesn't bother to measure for the proper location for chest compressions, a very important step that is the difference between proper CPR and simply cracking ribs. As he performs compressions, he is not chanting the rhythm (one-and-two-and-three) and his elbows are bent. All of these were altered for dramatic reasons or the purpose of safety, but the sloppy technique probably would have killed Lex. (00:18:40)
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