Land of Black Gold: Part 1 - S2-E10
Continuity mistake: When Tintin wakes up in Bab El Ehr's tent, there is a flower pattern on his left and one on his right. When he gets up, they are no longer beside him. (00:09:25)
Land of Black Gold: Part 1 - S2-E10
Continuity mistake: When Bab El Ehr and his men leave Tintin for dead, he is lying on the ground with his head facing forwards. In the next shot, his head is suddenly facing toward the left. (00:11:10)
Land of Black Gold: Part 1 - S2-E10
Continuity mistake: Bab El Ehr and his men untie Tintin after he passes out and leave him. As they are riding away, the rope he was tied with is beside him. In the next shot, the rope is positioned differently. (00:11:10)
Land of Black Gold: Part 1 - S2-E10
Revealing mistake: Tintin sees the four men planting the explosive in the pipe line. Two of the four men are kneeling beside the pipe, one on the front side wearing a brown cloak and green clothing and one on the opposite side wearing grey clothing planting the explosive in the pipe. The man on the opposite side in grey clothing is passing through the pipe when the two are first kneeling. (00:12:20)
Land of Black Gold: Part 1 - S2-E10
Revealing mistake: Mueller hops off his horse and tells Tintin (as Amed) to hold the horse and tells him he will be back in a moment. Throughout the entirety of this shot, the colour of the blanket on Mueller's horse constantly flickers between several frames. As Mueller gets off the horse, the blanket is dark teal, then Mueller hands the rein to his horse to Tintin and the blanket suddenly flickers to dark orange and also dark teal near the bottom. Tintin jumps off the horse and the blanket suddenly flickers back to dark teal again. (00:13:25)
Land of Black Gold: Part 1 - S2-E10
Continuity mistake: After Mueller leaves his horse, Tintin follows behind him to spy on him and stops hiding behind a rock. From one angle, he stops, pointing his gun forwards. The shot cuts and suddenly the gun is pointing upwards. (00:13:40)
Land of Black Gold: Part 1 - S2-E10
Revealing mistake: When Tintin goes to spy on Mueller, he stops for a brief moment and then continues walking. When he begins to start walking again the strap on the gun he is holding clips through one of the rocks on the ground. (00:13:40)
Land of Black Gold: Part 1 - S2-E10
Continuity mistake: After Tintin realises he was right that the man was Mueller, the shot then pans back to Mueller looking at his face in a small mirror. When the shot stops panning, there is nothing reflected in Mueller's mirror. The shot changes to a close-up of the mirror and Mueller's reflection suddenly appears in the mirror. (00:13:55)
Land of Black Gold: Part 1 - S2-E10
Revealing mistake: When Mueller is brushing his beard, the reflection shown in the mirror he is using is different to what is actually happening. His thumb is on his chin, but in the reflection his thumb is next to his mouth. (00:13:55)
Land of Black Gold: Part 1 - S2-E10
Continuity mistake: After Mueller finds out Tintin is spying on him, Mueller strikes him with a very thick bat and also strikes Snowy with the same bat. A couple of shots later, as Mueller says "Foolish Amed", the bat is suddenly much thinner. (00:14:10)
Land of Black Gold: Part 1 - S2-E10
Audio problem: When Thomson notices the can of petrol on the road, he tells Thompson to stop the car and then Thompson replies by saying "Righto," but without his lips moving. (00:16:05)
Land of Black Gold: Part 1 - S2-E10
Audio problem: The detectives stop the car after the two discover the petrol can left on the road and Thomson then says he better go and investigate. His mouth is not moving along with the line. (00:16:10)
Land of Black Gold: Part 1 - S2-E10
Continuity mistake: When Thomson goes to put the petrol can in the back of the car and realises that their petrol can is not there, he does not have his cane with him. He then gets back in the car and suddenly his cane has appeared in his hand. (00:16:25)
Land of Black Gold: Part 1 - S2-E10
Plot hole: Thomson and Thompson fall asleep whilst driving their jeep and are arrested because whilst they were asleep, they drove into and damaged several people's markets and as well as driving into the wall of a building. Although the decision to arrest them would seem normal due to the vandalism, it does not make sense why both of the detectives would have gotten arrested. Even if they both fell asleep at the wheel, only one of the detectives was actually responsible for the vandalism caused by this. (00:19:00)
Land of Black Gold: Part 1 - S2-E10
Continuity mistake: Tintin is waiting for his meeting with the Emir in the castle. In the first interior shot of the castle whilst Tintin is waiting, the handle on the left side of the door is slightly lower than the handle on the right of the door. A few moments after Tintin walks into the room, the door closes behind him and the two door handles are suddenly level with each other. (00:19:05)
Land of Black Gold: Part 1 - S2-E10
Character mistake: The man who escorts Tintin into the Emir's office asks Tintin if he is here about "today's events in the market" (referring to Thomson and Thompson crashing their jeep), to which Tintin replies "Yes", but seconds later, when Tintin is explaining his reasons to the Emir for visiting him, he states the events with the jeep occurred yesterday. (00:19:20)
Land of Black Gold: Part 1 - S2-E10
Continuity mistake: When Tintin is telling to Emir that Mueller was leading the men that blew up the pipe line, there are two shots glasses on the table in front of them. A couple of shots later, the shot glasses have vanished from the table. (00:20:15)
Land of Black Gold: Part 2 - S2-E11
Other mistake: When Snowy discovers the blue robe, Tintin picks it up. As he kneels down, he is doing the motions of reaching for the ground and picking up the robe, but the robe is significantly further away than where he is reaching down for. (00:26:15)
Land of Black Gold: Part 2 - S2-E11
Continuity mistake: When Tintin is handed the letter that says the Emir's son has been kidnapped, there is a close-up shot of him holding it. When the shot cuts to Tintin handing the letter back to the Emir, for a split second his hands have changed position. More writing also appears on the letter. (00:27:10)
Land of Black Gold: Part 2 - S2-E11
Revealing mistake: The Emir is always shown wearing a black robe with a yellow stripe down each sleeve. When the Emir is telling Tintin it was Bab El Ehr who kidnapped his son, there is a portion of the yellow strip next to the cane he is holding around his elbow, that keeps flickering from yellow to black and back to yellow again. This occurs three times in one shot. (00:27:15)
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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