Aerinah

21st Mar 2023

Fall (2022)

Continuity mistake: When the ladder falls off, several rungs remain at the top and are through the rest of the movie (eg. when Becky climbs down she attaches her rope to the lowest of these rungs). However, when the ladder first breaks and Becky is falling, there is a shot looking up at the platform that shows the entire ladder breaking off, with no rungs left attached to the platform. (00:38:44)

Aerinah

21st Mar 2023

Project Hail Mary

Continuity mistake: Atmospheric pressure is inconsistent throughout the book. Grace says Erid has 29x Earth's pressure (because of the 1 ball:29 balls Rocky provides). But all Rocky can measure is the Hail Mary's pressure, and earlier Grace said it was only 40% of Earth's (Ch. 7: "the entire Hail Mary is at that 40 percent pressure"). So Erid would really be 29 x 40% = 11.6 times Earth normal. Also, the Hail Mary pressure is sometimes described as "0.33 atmospheres" (Ch. 27), or "one-fifth atmosphere" (Ch. 16).

Aerinah

10th Feb 2023

Fall (2022)

Continuity mistake: After the ladder falls and before the girls realise Becky has been injured, the cut on her leg is visible in several shots. Sometimes her leggings under the cut are red with blood and sometimes they're not - it goes back and forth a few times. (00:41:35 - 00:42:55)

Aerinah

5th Feb 2023

Project Hail Mary

Continuity mistake: After the "adventure in acceleration" at Adrian, the Hail Mary is effectively upside down (Ch. 20). Then Grace gets "sick of living in the Poseidon Adventure" and rights it-meaning the storage area is at the bottom again. He goes in there to fix a leak, then "climb[s] back down and wince[s] the whole time." He should be climbing up or out, not down. Also, in Ch. 22, when Grace is in there again (finding Taumoeba poo), "Rocky calls out from below"-but Rocky should be above him, not below.

Aerinah

9th Nov 2016

Hush (2016)

Continuity mistake: Maddie kills the intruder with the corkscrew and then pushes him onto the floor to her left. A wide shot from above shows them lying side by side; Maddie's left hand is lightly touching the intruder's right elbow, but her hand is definitely not under his arm. Then the shot switches immediately to a closeup, and the intruder's arm is suddenly on top of Maddie's hand and wrist. You can see her pulling her arm out from beneath his. (01:14:00 - 01:15:00)

Aerinah

15th Aug 2016

The Martian (2015)

Continuity mistake: This mistake is in the extended edition: When Watney decides "I'm not going to die here", he packs up his five crew mates' belongings in plastic boxes and stows them in one of the two bottom bunk beds, from which the mattress has been removed. Then Watney is shown struggling out of bed, presumably the next morning, and a wide shot shows all six bunks. Every bed has a mattress and bedding on it and there are no boxes in sight. (00:19:10 - 00:19:50)

Aerinah

12th Oct 2015

The Martian (2015)

Continuity mistake: When Watney is putting duct tape on the plastic patch over the hole where the Hab airlock blew out, the first shot shows him outside the Hab putting the last strip in an evenly distributed set, from about the 10 o'clock position down to about the 4 o'clock position. Then (after a quick reverse shot from the interior), suddenly he is placing a new strip up from the 8 to 2 position, covering a spot that was already covered when he did the 10 to 4 strip, but which is now suddenly blank.

Aerinah

11th Oct 2015

The Martian (2015)

Continuity mistake: When Bruce Ng is video calling Teddy Sanderson and Mitch Henderson to explain the modifications Watney will need to make to the Ares 4 MAV, there is a point in which the model MAV behind Bruce contains only a chair, all other chairs and the control console having been removed. Then, as Bruce and Mitch explain to Vincent that since Martinez will be remote-piloting the MAV, Watney doesn't need the controls, there is a shot of Bruce pulling several chairs and the control console out of the model.

Aerinah

10th Apr 2015

Dreamcatcher

Continuity mistake: In section 12 of chapter 11, Henry thinks about how "He, Pete, Beaver and Jonesy's wife had kept a secret among them", that Jonesy's "heart had stopped twice" after he was hit by a car about 10 months earlier. This is a mistake because earlier that day, in section 8 of chapter 3, Pete hadn't known about it - Henry tells Pete that Jonesy's "heart stopped in the ambulance", and Pete is shocked to hear it.

Aerinah

21st Jan 2014

Sherlock (2010)

The Empty Hearse - S3-E2

Continuity mistake: As Sherlock and John approach the missing subway car, and especially as they bend to peer beneath it, the interior of the car to a distance of several feet is plainly visible through the window of the door (you can see the curved ceiling inside and some unlit fluorescent light bars). However, an interior shot then shows that there is a closed door inside the car, a foot or so inside the exterior door, that Sherlock has to push open to enter the car proper. This door should have blocked their view of the inside of the car before they entered. It didn't, so it has gone from open to closed between shots without anyone touching it. (01:05:35)

Aerinah

15th Sep 2013

Sherlock (2010)

Sherlock mistake picture

The Great Game - S1-E3

Continuity mistake: When Sherlock goes to look out the window at John leaving (after the tiff about the head in the fridge), his dressing gown is hanging off his right shoulder, exposing his t-shirt. Next there is a wider shot of him from behind, and his dressing gown is on straight, covering both shoulders properly. Then there's another closeup and it's off the right shoulder again. (00:05:40 - 00:06:10)

Aerinah

8th Oct 2012

The Cold Moon

Continuity mistake: In Ch. 33, the rookie Ron Pulaski thinks about his wife and two kids - his toddler, Brad, who is described as old enough to crawl, and "their newborn daughter". But in Ch. 18 of the previous book, The Twelfth Card,it says Pulaski has one daughter and his wife is pregnant with another child. So the mistake is that the older child ought to be a girl, not a boy.

Aerinah

25th Mar 2012

Ready Player One

Continuity mistake: In Ch. 29 when the IOI eargear is first put on Wade, it is "clamped onto his right earlobe, piercing it in two locations." But then, in Ch. 31, Wade disengages the eargear and describes the pain as it "pulled free of the cartilage on my left ear." So there are two mistakes here: first, the eargear changes location from his right ear to his left, and second, it goes from being in his earlobe (which lacks cartilage) to a part of the ear that does contain cartilage.

Aerinah

7th Feb 2012

Ready Player One

Continuity mistake: In Chapter 19, Wade describes the small efficiency apartment he has moved into, which used to be an average hotel room. He says at one point that the room "was basically a cube, about ten meters long on each side." A ten-meter cube is actually a really big room - that's over 32 feet on each side, including ceiling height. Then, just to confirm that this is indeed a mistake, later in the same chapter he refers to "my tiny one-room apartment."

Aerinah

25th May 2011

A Breach of Promise

Continuity mistake: In previous books (such as The Face of a Stranger), Hester Latterly's sister-in-law is called Imogen. In Chapter 7 of this book, however, her name is given as Josephine.

Aerinah

25th May 2011

The Sins of the Wolf

Continuity mistake: In Chapter 2, Hester Latterly tells Mary Farraline about her brother James who was killed in the Crimea. But in previous books (for example, The Face of a Stranger), her brother who was killed in the Crimea was called George.

Aerinah

24th May 2011

The Stand

Continuity mistake: In Ch. 72, Stu describes finding Harold dead, and recalls that "Harold still clutched the Permacover notebook in one stiffening hand." But earlier, in Ch. 64, Stephen King states that Harold "put the Permacover notebook into the Triumph's saddlebag" immediately before shooting himself.

Aerinah

Continuity mistake: Near the beginning of Ch. 2, it says Eddie Dean is 21 years old. But near the beginning of Ch. 3, he tells Odetta Holmes he is 23. And only about a week has passed between the two events (as Eddie says on the first page of the unnumbered chapter called 'Shuffle').

Aerinah

Continuity mistake: In section 3 of the chapter called Bear and Bone, Eddie Dean reminisces about his dead sister Gloria. But in the previous book (The Drawing of the Three), Eddie's dead sister's name was Selina (Ch 3: Contact and Landing).

Aerinah

24th Jan 2011

The Plains of Passage

Continuity mistake: On p. 86 (hardcover) it says Ayla has never seen onagers before. But she hunted them in The Valley of Horses with Whinney and Baby (Chapter 13, p. 264 in the paperback).

Aerinah

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