Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the episode when Glory gets hit by a truck, she lands on the roof of a car twice.
Revealing mistake: Watch the shot of Glory as she is hit by the truck at the beginning of the episode (easier to see in slow-mo/frame-by-frame). She isn't hit by the truck at all. It goes right past her. A simple optical illusion used in filmmaking for decades.
Visible crew/equipment: After Buffy walks outside to hear the sirens, in the close up of Buffy's face on the upper right corner of the screen you can see a boom mike. (00:06:30)
Blood Ties - S5-E13
Continuity mistake: In the first scene of the episode, just after the teaser, the Scoobies are gathered around the table at Giles' magic shop. During the second part of the scene, we can see Anya is alternatively lying her arms under or above the table depending on the camera angle, whether from behind or facing her. (00:01:55 - 00:03:15)
Continuity mistake: When Spike is stalking Buffy in front of her house, she somehow senses him and pulls him out of behind the tree in front of her porch. While he is being pulled out, he has no cigarette in his mouth. However in the next close-up shot, he has one (which he then quickly throws away). (00:29:55)
Visible crew/equipment: In the final scene where Buffy apologizes to Dawn, a microphone is visible in the upper left corner, from the camera angle behind Dawn, just after she says "you hurt my arm." (00:40:00)
Visible crew/equipment: When Riley goes to Spike's crypt to ask him for information about Dracula, the microphone appears in the upper right hand corner of the screen. (00:17:55)
Continuity mistake: When Xander is shot by the demon's lightning rod, he falls on a heap of black trash bags. When he is helped to stand up, different bags, pink and white ones, are visible instead. (00:11:30)
Continuity mistake: When the group is debriefing about their first Dracula encounter at Giles', Anya is sitting on the sofa with her hands crossed on her lap. In the next shot she has her arms straight with the palms of her hands on the sofa cushion, fingers towards the back. (00:11:25)
Visible crew/equipment: When Giles picks Buffy up in his car, you can see lighting and camera equipment on the right.
Continuity mistake: In the end of the scene where they find the dead mental patient killed by the meteor alien, the group walk away from The Body leaving Riley still there, but Anya's coat can be seen in the bottom left corner after she had walked away.
Visible crew/equipment: When Willow does her spell to save Tara, you can see the black pad Tara falls/ stands on.
Continuity mistake: After Riley stakes Spike and Spike decides to drink, he is shown opening the bottle. The camera shows Riley and then goes back to Spike. Spike is holding the bottle, lid still on, then he goes to open it again.
Chosen answer: "So goes the nation" seems to have been used on many occasions, with various different US states in the "As .... goes" section. Most commonly it seems to be California that's considered to lead the way, but probably most other states have appeared in the lead role at some point or another. Other things have also been used - no less a person that Pope John Paul II said "As the family goes, so goes the nation...". The origin of the quote format is unclear - in US politics it goes back into the 19th century, when it was Maine that held the title spot, but, while no definitive origin is known, it seems highly likely that it goes back considerably further than that.
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