Explorers on the Moon: Part 2 - S3-E12
Continuity mistake: When driving to the landing pad, the number plate is shown to have fairly thin style numbering, but later in the scene, when the car is shown through the view of the binoculars, the numbering on the plate is much thicker. (00:41:05)
Destination Moon: Part 1 - S3-E9
Continuity mistake: When the car taking Tintin, Haddock and Snowy to meet with Calculus leaves the airport, the number plate is 1941, but when they are welcomed after entering the base, the number plate is now 1491. (00:02:10 - 00:03:45)
Destination Moon: Part 1 - S3-E9
Continuity mistake: When Tintin discovers the shadow approaching the ventilation shaft, the shadow is first seen with his hand passing over the stain beneath the shaft. When Tintin gets a closer look, the hand of the shadow is yet to have his hand pass over the stain. (00:11:30)
Destination Moon: Part 1 - S3-E9
Continuity mistake: When Tintin tells the man outside the ventilation shaft to put his hands up, he puts his finger about half way down the man's back to imitate a gun. In the next shot, Tintin's finger is much lower down. (00:11:40)
Destination Moon: Part 1 - S3-E9
Continuity mistake: When the two men are surveying the rocket movements, one of them is fiddling with one of the buttons. There is an arrow on the button, pointing towards an upwards position, but in the next shot, the arrow is pointing more towards the left. (00:17:55)
Prisoners of the Sun: Part 1 - S3-E5
Continuity mistake: On the ship, when the man walks onto the deck, he is standing a few inches away from the lining on the floor. After the cat meows, he turns to leave, and he is suddenly standing directly on the lining on the floor. (00:06:15)
Prisoners of the Sun: Part 1 - S3-E5
Continuity mistake: After Snowy tears off the back of the thug's trousers, the two thugs run away. Snowy is shown standing with three oranges behind him, but in the next shot, the three oranges are now on his left and another orange has appeared on his right. (00:14:20)
Prisoners of the Sun: Part 2 - S3-E6
Continuity mistake: When Tintin climbs up the cliff to rescue Snowy from the condor's nest, he is carrying a rope over his right shoulder, but from a much further away angle, the rope is suddenly placed over his left shoulder. (00:26:10)
The Castafiore Emerald: Part 1 - S3-E7
Continuity mistake: After Haddock tells the gypsies that they can camp near Marlinspike Hall, Tintin and Haddock return to the manor. As they walk up the stairs, Haddock has his cane in his left hand, but when they walk through the door, Haddock suddenly has his cane in his right hand. (00:03:35)
The Castafiore Emerald: Part 2 - S3-E8
Continuity mistake: When Castafiore is complaining about the stairs not being fixed, the first shot of her shows nothing on the torso section of the dress she is wearing, but when the shot is on her next, a small design has suddenly appeared on the chest area of her dress. (00:24:55)
The Seven Crystal Balls: Part 1 - S3-E3
Continuity mistake: Tintin is on a train, reading a newspaper saying Sanders is in a deep coma and the man next to him says there'll be more to come. When the man starts talking, he is seen with a pipe in his mouth, but in the next shot, the pipe is suddenly longer. (00:03:05)
The Seven Crystal Balls: Part 1 - S3-E3
Continuity mistake: After General Alcazar performs his knife throwing act, Tintin says he knew General Alcazar in South Africa. At this moment, Alcazar is onstage standing on his own, but in the next shot, a stage hand has suddenly appeared onstage beside him. The knife holster has also suddenly reappeared onstage. (00:05:25)
The Seven Crystal Balls: Part 1 - S3-E3
Continuity mistake: At the theatre performance, Ragdalam the Fakir is shown putting Madame Yamilah into a state of hypnosis. When Ragdalam starts telling Madame Yamilah that he is putting her into a state of hypnosis, she is facing the audience, but in the next shot, she has suddenly turned 90° to face Ragdalam. (00:05:45)
The Seven Crystal Balls: Part 1 - S3-E3
Continuity mistake: When Bianca Castafiore begins singing, Tintin and Haddock are shown in the booth looking astonished, but Snowy is nowhere to be found. In the next shot, Snowy has suddenly appeared beside Tintin. (00:07:25)
The Seven Crystal Balls: Part 1 - S3-E3
Continuity mistake: When Tintin tells Thomson and Thompson that they should warn the other members of the expedition, Tintin places his left hand on his phone and pushes it to the other side of the table. In the closeup, it's now his right hand, and the telephone wire moves too. (00:10:25)
The Seven Crystal Balls: Part 1 - S3-E3
Continuity mistake: When Tintin goes to phone the members of the expedition, he places his address book beside the phone a few inches from it, and the phone is near the centre of the table. In the next shot, the phone and the address book are suddenly nearer to the edge of the table. (00:11:15)
The Seven Crystal Balls: Part 1 - S3-E3
Continuity mistake: When Mr. Falconer is in the taxi, driving to Tintin's apartment, the number plate is white, but when the taxi arrives at the apartment, the number plate is red. (00:11:55)
The Seven Crystal Balls: Part 1 - S3-E3
Continuity mistake: When Snowy is sniffing along the floor, the detective can be seen standing along the carpet by the door, but when he asks Tintin about his dog, he is suddenly standing far away from the door. (00:20:25)
The Seven Crystal Balls: Part 2 - S3-E4
Continuity mistake: When Tintin says "The curse of Rascar Capac has come true", the detective has black hair and a black moustache, but in the next shot, his hair and moustache are now a much more reddish-brown colour. (00:25:10)
The Seven Crystal Balls: Part 2 - S3-E4
Continuity mistake: When Professor Calculus walks up to Tarragon's room, he is asking "Is Hercule in?", standing with in the doorway. In the next shot, he is suddenly standing entirely outside of the room and the detective is in the doorway instead. (00:27:25)
Chosen answer: If Hector was seriously intent on removing King Ottokar's scepter from the glass cage holding it and launching it through the window with the camera, then Hector would have been forced to knock out the two guards so they would not have interfered with Hector's plan as soon as he removed the scepter from the glass. As for Hector, himself, was explained when Tintin was explaining how Hector stole the scepter. Tintin placed a twig inside the camera and it launched out of the camera. Hector would have placed the scepter inside of the camera, and would have been knocked unconscious due to the spring effect created when the scepter had been launched.
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