The Calculus Affair: Part 1 - S1-E12
Continuity mistake: Snowy finds a bone. He bites down on the middle of it. When Tintin takes the bone off him a few seconds later, Snowy is suddenly biting the near end of it. (00:01:15)
The Calculus Affair: Part 1 - S1-E12
Audio problem: Haddock says "Take a whiff of that fine fresh air". His mouth doesn't match what he says. (00:01:35)
The Calculus Affair: Part 1 - S1-E12
Continuity mistake: When the rain storm starts, the part of Tintin's hair that sticks up flattens down. After Nestor appears with an umbrella and they take off running, Tintin's hair is sticking up again. (00:02:30)
The Calculus Affair: Part 1 - S1-E12
Revealing mistake: The villains stand in front of Marlinspike Hall. The shot after a close-up of their feet shows the clouds along with a storm. Look to the lower left corner and you will see part of the grey cloud doesn't have any color on it, like the animation cell has been scratched. (00:02:50)
The Calculus Affair: Part 1 - S1-E12
Other mistake: The villains look at Calculus on his radio. In this shot, Calculus has a reflection in the mirror but his eyes don't seem to have a reflection at all. (00:03:05)
The Calculus Affair: Part 1 - S1-E12
Other mistake: One of the villains says "With pleasure" after looking at Calculus and his radio. The other villain has a cigarette in his mouth. In this shot, you can see the cigarette has two ends to it. The edge of it cannot be ash because that would have been washed away in the rain. (00:03:15)
The Calculus Affair: Part 1 - S1-E12
Continuity mistake: After the window shatters, we can see some of the glass still remains. A few minutes later, a man arrives at the house. When he goes to get his coat from Nestor, the glass that remained in the window has vanished. We know it's the same window because the glass is still on the floor. (00:03:50 - 00:06:00)
The Calculus Affair: Part 1 - S1-E12
Continuity mistake: When the vase shatters, the remains of the vase falls onto the floor. Yet when a man walks into the house and says "Tiff with the wife, eh?", all of the remains have now ended up above the fireplace. (00:03:55 - 00:05:15)
The Calculus Affair: Part 1 - S1-E12
Continuity mistake: Haddock is handed a bottle of wine. His hand covers the label in the first shot, but the label faces away from him in the next. (00:05:40)
The Calculus Affair: Part 1 - S1-E12
Revealing mistake: The villain holds a syringe and some liquid comes out of it. It's plainly visible that there is no liquid in it. Syringes are see through - we should have seen the liquid. (00:06:05)
The Calculus Affair: Part 1 - S1-E12
Audio problem: After the bullet is shot at Calculus's hat, Tintin says "That sounded like a gunshot... outside". After he says "gunshot...", his mouth starts moving as if he is speaking before he even starts to say "outside". (00:06:40)
The Calculus Affair: Part 1 - S1-E12
Continuity mistake: When the villain runs out of Calculus's lab, he drops a box of cigars. The box is dark red when dropped, light red when Tintin notices it, and dark red again once Tintin picks the box up. (00:11:30)
The Calculus Affair: Part 1 - S1-E12
Continuity mistake: When Tintin and Haddock arrive at the hotel, they start talking to the guy at the counter. They ask about Calculus and the guy turns his head to the keys. The next shot shows him looking at the key to 122. If you look in the previous shot, you see the key hook for room 122 are in the far background. (00:12:35)
The Calculus Affair: Part 1 - S1-E12
Other mistake: When the taxi gets hit, the number plate reads "GE 7051" on the back of the car, but when the taxi falls into the water, the number plate reads "GE 7054" on the front of the car. The number plate should be the same on both ends. (00:14:55)
The Calculus Affair: Part 1 - S1-E12
Audio problem: When Haddock and Tintin resurface, he realises the driver and Snowy haven't. He then says "They haven't come up". His mouth is out-of-sync at least twice in this line. (00:15:20)
The Calculus Affair: Part 1 - S1-E12
Revealing mistake: Tintin says to Professor Topolino it wasn't Calculus who tied him up. The next shot shows a timer on a bomb ticking. As each second ticks, the minute hand on the clock keeps ticking backwards or forwards. (00:17:50)
The Calculus Affair: Part 1 - S1-E12
Continuity mistake: When Professor Topolino talks to Tintin and Haddock at a table, there is a wide shot showing Haddock looking downwards. In the next shot, Haddock is suddenly looking at Topolino. (00:18:00)
The Calculus Affair: Part 1 - S1-E12
Continuity mistake: When Tintin says to Topolino that the man impersonating Calculus was an impostor, there is a cigarette in an ash tray that doesn't have the logo on the cigarette. The shot cuts and the logo suddenly appears on the cigarette. (00:18:20)
The Calculus Affair: Part 2 - S1-E13
Audio problem: When Tintin, Haddock and Calculus exit the hospital, Haddock says "Blistering barnacles, I'm glad to be out of there. The food was terrible". His mouth doesn't move when he says "The food was terrible". (00:25:50)
The Calculus Affair: Part 2 - S1-E13
Continuity mistake: When Calculus walks to the post card shop, Haddock points at his watch. If you look at his watch, you will see that the minute hand keeps on titling from 8:50 to 9:00 and back. (00:26:00)
Answer: According to Wikipedia, he is described as being a youth anywhere from 14 - 19 years old. There is no specific age.
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