Wendy Hughes

1st Oct 2006

Roswell (1999)

Pilot - S1-E1

Corrected entry: When Max heals Liz, he has his left hand on her stomach [pinky down, thumb up]. But when we see the silver handprint, it is of a right hand [pinky up, thumb down].

Correction: The hand print is correct because we and Liz are viewing it in a mirror.

No, this is incorrect. A reflection would change only the horizontal orientation, not the vertical. It should appear as if a right hand were used to make the print (since it was Max's left hand). The thumb should still face upward, not downward as it appears. This is a production error. Apparently, instead of just using somebody's left hand with silver paint to produce the print, it was painted on with a brush by a makeup artist.

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It's not just the reflection in Liz's mirror. The handprint is wrong in at least two other scenes: when Liz is showing Max the handprint in the band room, and when Liz and Kyle are coming home after a date and Liz reaches up (to turn the porch light?) and Kyle sees the print on her belly.

Wendy Hughes

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