Mobile Suit Gundam

Mobile Suit Gundam (1979)

79 mistakes in season 1 - chronological order

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Garma's Fate - S1-E10

Continuity mistake: At the party, Garma is holding a normal glass when he talks to the two sycophants with horrible fashion taste, but when he looks towards Char approaching the bar, his glass suddenly acquires a dimpled surface. (00:03:00)

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Garma's Fate - S1-E10

Other mistake: White Base knocks a car off a rock, but does not hit the rock itself with the part that sticks further lower and passes by right after. (00:06:30)

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Garma's Fate - S1-E10

Continuity mistake: The civilians still inside White Base are restless as the ship hides in the dome. One of them sitting on the floor is wearing a sand colored suit, that turns dark brown when Fraw Bow calls everyone's attention. (00:09:10)

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Garma's Fate - S1-E10

Other mistake: The 60,000 ton White Base backs into the stadium stands and there's virtually no damage, nor vibrations and sounds big enough to tip the troops of their whereabouts. Such an impact, even if not at top speed, would hardly be without consequences. (00:09:20)

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Garma's Fate - S1-E10

Other mistake: During the carpet bombing, a single bomb quite literally shreds half of a concrete building (at least 5 storeys), but a number of them do not have any special effect on the already wrecked stadium dome. (00:10:20)

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Garma's Fate - S1-E10

Continuity mistake: When Char is about to get inside his Zaku, Garma talks to him. Char's right arm is lowered when Garma is in frame, but his hand is on the hatch in the previous and following shot. (00:13:20)

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Icelina- Love's Remains - S1-E11

Audio problem: In the throne room of Zeon, Dozle opens the big portal door with one hand, and it makes a creaking sound as if it were a small wooden door of a broom closet. The door itself is closed in the following shots, with no sound heard for it. (00:04:00)

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Icelina- Love's Remains - S1-E11

Continuity mistake: Sayla hands Bright the dispatch from the Federation. Bright takes it with his left hand, turns around and walks away still with the message in the same hand - but at the cut, it's in his right hand. (00:10:30)

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Icelina- Love's Remains - S1-E11

Audio problem: When Char is chased away by Bright, Hayato and Kai shooting at him (even if he's a skilled commando and is running from a couple teenagers), the gunshots of the White Base officers produce 6 detonations in total but many more light blasts. (00:16:00)

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Icelina- Love's Remains - S1-E11

Other mistake: Amuro's Gundam changes relative size compared to the Gaw. The most egregious size problem happens when Amuro sticks the mace weapon into the Gaw, and somehow the staff used as weapon by an 18-meters tall robot, with a big energy attachment at the end, is small enough to run between two soldiers in a narrow corridor. (00:18:30)

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Icelina- Love's Remains - S1-E11

Plot hole: If all it takes is a missile from a Luggun (a standard recon plane) to completely KO White Base killing the controls and engine, there's no way the battleship made it throughout the countless assaults it was previously in. Char hits it knowing it will have that kind of effect, and yet there's no rationale given (for instance, a critical Death Star-like weak point has been found?) for him to be able to just do that, nor this engine killshot being used again after.

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The Threat of Zeon - S1-E12

Continuity mistake: Amuro gets up from the floor when he's been working on the Gundam backup computer. Going by the floor boards, the manual and the trays with the tools have moved around between shots. (00:05:45)

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The Threat of Zeon - S1-E12

Other mistake: The three comic relief kids burst into the bridge with hoover. The floor they are cleaning is a single smooth surface, but when Bright apologizes to them, they are standing on the only section with tiles. (00:06:40)

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