Jon Sandys

30th Apr 2019

Avengers: Endgame (2019)

30th Apr 2019

Avengers: Endgame (2019)

Trivia: Near the start, Okoye submits a report about an earthquake in the Atlantic, saying they should leave it alone. This is a potential tease for Namor the Sub-Mariner, ruler of Atlantis. This has been hinted at before, with a map in Iron Man 2 showing a point of interest in the Atlantic - the same map which flagged up Wakanda long before the official introduction of Black Panther.

Jon Sandys

30th Apr 2019

Avengers: Endgame (2019)

Trivia: The title "Endgame" has been teased in two previous Avengers films - most obviously in Infinity War, when Dr. Strange says "we're in the endgame now", but it actually originates more significantly in Age of Ultron, when Tony says "We can bust arms dealers all the livelong day, but that up there... that's the endgame."

Jon Sandys

30th Apr 2019

Avengers: Endgame (2019)

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Trivia: In September 2018, before the title was announced, the Russo brothers posted an image of the set on Twitter, with the caption "Look Hard." Eagle-eyed fans worked out that shapes within the image spelled out "Endgame," later confirmed by the Russos.

Jon Sandys

30th Apr 2019

Avengers: Endgame (2019)

28th Apr 2019

Avengers: Endgame (2019)

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Trivia: Thanos' gauntlet bears a striking resemblance to the relic of the hand of St. Teresa de Jesus, one of the most important holy relics in Spain.

Jon Sandys

21st Apr 2019

Hawaii Five-0 (2010)

Through the Valley of Shadows - S2-E12

Stupidity: Burnham and Spock find one person alive from the otherwise-dead crew, miraculously. They know Control can infect humans, they know how advanced it is, the entire setup screams "trap", and yet they don't even question whether Gant even might be under Control's...well, control. A simple scan would have turned up anomalies and they could have avoided what followed.

Jon Sandys

Continuity mistake: As Audrey and Drew struggle with the gun, in the shot behind Morgan, Drew has his arms around Audrey, with the gun up by her chest. Cut to a closer shot and the gun's much lower, below his arms, by Audrey's stomach. (01:40:20)

Jon Sandys

Continuity mistake: After the gym rescue, Sebastian is explaining what's on the drive and leaning forwards. The angle changes as the door opens, and he's suddenly leaning back in his chair.

Jon Sandys

Stupidity: Henshaw knocks out Duffer and handcuffs him to the steering wheel in order to go in alone and save the women, but this highly-trained agent somehow doesn't think to take Duffer's radio, meaning of course, as soon as he wakes up he can call to have the place blown up as he was going to before.

Jon Sandys

Continuity mistake: When they're in the cafe in Vienna, Kate McKinnon's arms are all over the place depending on the angle. First shot from the front she's using a spoon and fork, then from behind her left hand is empty on the table. Cut to front, then back, and suddenly she's leaning on the table with her left arm while eating with her right. Then from the front both hands are suddenly empty and she's leaning forwards with her arms crossed. Side shot and the fork is back in her right hand.

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Continuity mistake: Just after escaping from the apartment near the start, after saying they're not going to hide in a Pilates Plus, we see a wide shot of them speeding through an intersection, with empty road behind them. Cuts to inside with the conversation continuing, and there's a car directly behind them.

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Stupidity: The highly trained agents who storm Audrey's home at the start in reasonable numbers somehow don't have anyone watching the fire escape that she and Morgan escape from.

Jon Sandys

The Red Angel - S2-E10

Plot hole: Michael uses herself as bait to trap her future self, putting her own life in jeopardy with the reasoning that her future self will come back to save her. All well and good, except they have a backup plan with the doctor to resuscitate her if needed, meaning her life isn't really at risk, or nowhere near as much as might be implied. And her future self would undoubtedly know that, having lived through it in the past, so not swoop in to save her. Or even if she did come, would also know it was a trap.

Jon Sandys

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Suggested correction: ***SPOILER ALERT*** But, as it turns out, The Red Angel that comes to save her is NOT Michael, but her mother, who would not necessarily have known about the backup plan.

wizard_of_gore

***SPOILER ALERT*** That it was her mother doesn't stop it being a plot hole since they thought The Red Angel was future Michael, and future Michael would know that present Michael wasn't really in danger so they weren't presenting a situation, _according to what they believed_, that required future Michael to act. It being the mother was a plot twist that created a motivation to act that the present people had no reason to think would exist. Basically, unless they presume a split timeline (i.e. this present is a different past than The Red Angel lived through), making a trap for future Michael that present Michael is involved in makes no logical sense.

jimba

Alternatively, Michael would have to come back, KNOWING it was a trap, to prevent the timeline unravelling.

Seniram

The point of the exercise is they were setting a trap. If it didn't work, then Michael wouldn't have to come back to "prevent the timeline unravelling (sic)", even if that were a thing - it presupposes a fixed, unalterable timeline, which goes against their attempt to send the data to the future to protect it, and thereby alter the future. Even with an unalterable timeline, it would only work if future Michael had chosen to allow herself to be trapped, but in that case why wouldn't future Michael just voluntarily come back to help? Since her being trapped wasn't a certainty, there was no reason to think she would be given that the current Michael, and therefore also future Michael, knows a trap has been set, but one that doesn't actually threaten current Michael. The whole premise of the trap, under their assumption that The Red Angel was future Michael, is completely flawed and made no logical sense.

The fact that The Red Angel was in the future, and that they had a backup plan meant that The Red Angel never should have come back in time, ever. Because the backup plan would be the recorded history, thus, she never would have died. Thus, nothing to save. Face it, everything in Discovery is a plot hole.

Factual error: The scenes set at Wrestlemania XXX (2014) were filmed at a RAW show in 2018 - fans are visible in the background wearing wrestling merchandise more recent than 2014.

Jon Sandys

7th Mar 2019

Captain Marvel (2019)

Trivia: In the Blockbuster, Danvers blasts a standee of True Lies. The directors' first choice of standee was actually The Mask (which makes sense, being a green-skinned character who she'd rightly think was a Skrull and attack), but New Line Cinema refused to allow it.

Jon Sandys

25th Feb 2019

Counterpart (2017)

Show generally

Question: Why are the computers in the office on "our" side so outdated? Phones aren't, and we see computers elsewhere that are modern. People get visas to come through into the world as a whole, so they'll see technological differences there - why keep the office so behind the times?

Jon Sandys

Answer: Great question, this bothered me too. Throughout the series, both sides take extraordinary measures to protect their technologies, but several times allow people to enter on official visas with unsupervised access. This is a plot mistake.

24th Feb 2019

The Flash (2014)

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