(Volume Two: Generations) Four Months Later... - S2-E1
Visible crew/equipment: S02E01 "Four Months Later". As the samurai warriors are about to engage the attack, a close-up shot of Hiro turning around reveals the white screen reflected in his glasses.
(Volume Two: Generations) Four Months Later... - S2-E1
Revealing mistake: After Kensei knocks Hiro down a goat licks Hiro's face. The kibble used to lure the goat in for the shot can be seen on Hiro's cheek and collar.
Continuity mistake: When Alejandro finds Maya outside the tunnel, she has black ooze from her eyes running down her cheeks. As he starts his healing, we get a close-up shot of how the ooze fades and disappears from Maya's face. But in the next shot of her face, when she falls forward, the black stuff is back on her cheeks. It's gone again in the next shot of her. (00:29:20)
Continuity mistake: Season 2, ep. 3, "Kindred". When Peter gets the box with his belongings back from the Irishmen, as Caitlin says "Well?" Peter's hands are in his lap. The angle changes to Peter, who answers "Well, what?" and he suddenly has both hands on the box, with no time to move them between shots. (00:35:55)
Factual error: In Season 2, Episode 3, Peter and the Irish family rob the bookmakers and the security guards shoot at them. In Ireland, even the police don't carry weapons. Let alone security guards.
Continuity mistake: When Claire and West are talking about their abilities on the beach, the close up shots of Claire show that she is wearing earrings, the camera goes to West but when it focuses on Claire again she is no longer wearing them.
Continuity mistake: When Maya is arrested, she starts manifesting her powers on the policeman. In a close-up, we can see the black ooze coming out of her eyes. Cut to a shot from above, when the policeman's eyes turn black and he drops the handcuffs, and Maya's cheeks are suddenly clean again, with no trace of the black stuff. (00:33:45)
Factual error: When Nathan goes to Cork to find his brother, he gets out of a black cab with a yellow license plate, both of which are characteristic of ENGLISH taxis, not Irish ones.
Visible crew/equipment: When Claire runs away from Bob after he calls her "Ms. Bennet", you can see Bob's shadow and another person's shadow on the ground. Since no one else was standing next to them, it has to be a crew member, most likely a camera man based on the odd shape of the shadow.
Continuity mistake: Season 2, episode 10, "Truth and Consequences": In the previous episode, "Cautionary Tales", when Noah was brought back to life he regenerated, then sat up, looked around him and said something sounding like "Home". In this episode, when the exact same scene is shown, we see Noah regenerating and sitting up, but this time he just looks straight ahead before lying back down, and does not say anything. (00:05:50)
Continuity mistake: Season 2, episode 11, "Powerless":. In Mohinder's kitchen, when Sylar cocks the hammer of the gun he is holding on Mohinder, he is holding the gun with his arm straight and the gun completely level. The angle changes just as Sylar says "Maya, I need you to stay calm", and now his arm is close to his body and bent so the gun is pointing at Mohinder at an upwards angle. There was no time for him to move his arm in between shots. (00:03:30)
Continuity mistake: Maya's necklace disappears between shots when she accuses Sylar of killing her brother.
Continuity mistake: Right before Sylar shoot Maya, you can see she already has a bullet wound on her chest.
Visible crew/equipment: When Mohinder, Sylar, Maya and Molly are at Isaac's old flat (now Mohinder's lab), as Mohinder and Sylar walk down the stairs, you can see the moving camera crane reflected in the glass behind them.
One of Us, One of Them - S3-E3
Factual error: When Hiro and Ando stand in front of a cinema in Berlin, Germany, you can see three movies posters in the background announcing a Buster Keaton festival. The left one shows his movie 'Cops' - but the German title 'Politzisten' is wrong - it should be 'Polizisten'. (00:09:55)
One of Us, One of Them - S3-E3
Revealing mistake: When Tracey looks at Nikki's dead body in the coffin (both played by Ali Larter) we can see Nikki's eyelids flicker.
Continuity mistake: When Claire Bennett is cutting Peter Petrelli's chest she makes two cuts then the angle changes and the blood is gone, the angle changes again and it is back.
Visible crew/equipment: When Daphne meets Linderman at pine hurst she walks to greet him and you can see a crew member behind a tree on the right side of the screen. (00:42:05)
Our Father - S3-E12
Continuity mistake: "Our Father". At the end of the previous episode, "The Eclipse, Part 2", Hiro brought Claire to the rooftop of the Deveaux building to witness Kaito handing over baby Claire to Noah Bennet. To illustrate his point, Hiro showed Claire the exact same thing happening in the "9th wonder" comic book he brought with him, and she can follow the Japanese dialogue from there. But when the exact same scene is shown at the beginning of this episode, Hiro does not show Claire the comic at all.
Other mistake: Peter rescues Angela from an elevator by flying her straight up the elevator shaft. When we see the shaft, it is completely devoid of any elevator cables.
Chosen answer: Because he's an idiot. From the story point of view, they needed the vault to actually be physically open so that the release of the virus would be a credible threat. Unfortunately, this required that Peter conveniently forget that he could simply walk through The Wall and use his telekinesis to tear the door open instead. Peter's increasingly large arsenal of abilities, where he ended up having pretty much any ability required for any situation, led to a situation where it became necessary to either have Peter apparently forget that he had a given power, as with the vault door scene, or become naively trusting, as with his refusal to scan Adam's mind to confirm his good intent. This problem, which simply made Peter look increasingly dumb as the show progressed, may well have been a key factor in the decision to severely reduce his ability during season three.
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