Roswell (1999) - 52 mistakes in series 1

Continuity: When Max, Michael, and Isabel are at the taco stand discussing Max's saving of Liz's life, you can see Michael hand Max the bottle of Tabasco the three are sharing, and when the shot switches, Michael again has the bottle of Tabasco.

Continuity: When Max and Liz are talking about the basketball game in front of Max's locker, Max shuts his locker door twice.

Continuity: When Max, Isabel, Liz and Maria meet up in the woods after they left the camp site to go to the crash site Max and Isabel walk off and leave Liz and Maria on their own. Max walks past a tree but when Liz and Maria catch up Max is standing next to the same tree waiting for them.

Continuity: At the Crashdown, when Isabel says, "Fine, I'm not an alien," Alex's hands flit from on the table to gesturing in the air.

Continuity: After the car gets pulled over and the sheriff says, "You kids be careful out there," Max shifts from looking at the sheriff to looking straight down between shots.

Continuity: As Max and his mother are talking in the park she asks him about finding his real parents. She takes her hand off his shoulder and crosses her arms, but in the next shot her hand is back on his shoulder.

Continuity: When Valenti and Michael see Max and Liz running from the red jeep and the camera angle changes to inside Valenti's car, the car isn't moving - the ground in front can be seen to be stationary. In the next shot it shows Valenti's car just slowing down to stop.

Continuity: Max telekinetically shoves the gun away grip first, but in the next shot it is lying differently.

Continuity: The sheriff gives his insurance information to Maria in the cafe and she holds it close to her chest. When he says "I can protect you" her hands skip to on top of the counter.

Continuity: In the scene where Michael and Maria were pulled over for speeding down the highway, Maria's seatbelt switches from being belted to not belted and back again. When it is seen from Michael's side of the car the belt is connected, but when it is seen from Maria's side of the car it is not.

Plot hole: In the lab when Liz makes the slides of her cheek cells and the cells from Max's pencil, the first time she doesn't add stain and the second time she does. If she's going to be a molecular biologist she really ought to learn to apply techniques consistently.

Continuity: In the shot where Amy DeLuca is talking to Geoff Parker, she's trying to sell him alien drink stirrers. As Jim Valenti's coming in the front door, she has nothing in her hair; but when she looks up to see him, suddenly the stirrers are in her hair.

Continuity: When Max is drunk on Liz's balcony, he draws a heart with his and Liz's initials in it. Then he lights it with his hand. Later, while Maria's singing, they show a flashback of him lighting it with the opposite hand.

Continuity: When Max and Liz climb out of the river at the beginning, they walk through one of two large drainage pipes next to each other. There is only one pipe on the other side.

Audio problem: At the end of the episode, Michael suddenly appears next to Max without any footsteps on the gravel like Max's and Liz's.

Continuity: At the end of the interrogation where Max agrees to reveal the second communicator, Pierce skips from standing a few feet in front of Max and facing him to standing directly next to him with his nose at Max's cheek.

Continuity: In the scene where Pierce uses the VR goggles on Max, Max lowers his head while Pierce is talking to him, but the next shot over Max's shoulder shows that he hasn't moved at all.

Continuity: After Max charges Pierce against the wall of the White Room, his hands change from gripping Pierce's jacket to merely set against his chest.

Audio problem: After Nasedo reveals himself in the morgue, there is a shot on Michael's face. There is no sound, but Nasedo can be seen in the foreground either talking animatedly or having an extremely localized seizure.

Continuity: As Michael, Isabel, and Tess are observing the hand scanner, the door and the agent using it move exactly the same way twice: once after he opens the door and again on a closeup on the scanner. Both times the agent steps to the left and the door begins to open.