Deck the Halls

Plot hole: When Steve Finch throws a snowball into Buddy Hall's electrical box, all the lights on the house and in the yard go out. Everything goes black. But minutes before that scene, Buddy is tapping into Steve Finch's power supply. Some (not all) lights should still be lit.

Plot hole: Buddy discovers a website, myearth.sat. The site, like Google Earth, contains satellite images of every square inch of the planet. Buddy can see his neighbor's house but not his own house. He decides to cover his house with lights so it can be "seen from space." There is absolutely no reason why the site would show every house in the world except Buddy's, except that the oversight is required in order to advance the plot.

Continuity mistake: When Steve Finch crosses the street to talk to Buddy Hall outside the hardware store, he raises his collar around his neck. Slightly further on in the scene, when the two are in front of the tree, he places his hands in his pockets. The two then walk back to Hall's pickup, at which point Finch's collar is down, and returns to being up when they finish walking. At no time does Finch remove his hands from his pockets.

Ian Hunt

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Tia Hall: Honey, the girls are having a great time showing everybody the lights. I pray to God that's the only thing they're showing.

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