19th Dec 2004
Woodland Critter Christmas - S8-E14
Corrected entry: In episode 8-14: "Woodland Critter Christmas," the squirrel tells Stan that the Antichrist's birth will lead to a thousand years of darkness in the forest. A few moments later, Stan laments the "ten thousand years of darkness" that are to come.
28th Apr 2004
Corrected entry: Chloe records Lionel's incriminating statement and then says to him, "I have your entire confession recorded on my voice mail, and the only person that has the password is me. So if I were you, I would reconsider my father's employment situation." But Chloe's statement doesn't quite make sense. If she's the only one who can access that voice mail, then the fastest way for Lionel to prevent it from getting out would not be to indulge her, but rather to kill her as soon as possible. Chloe would only gain control over Lionel with this information if she somehow had it rigged to automatically be released unless she input the password on a regular basis, or something like that. Even Lionel doesn't acknowledge the stupdity of her statement - he says that he doesn't respond to blackmail, and offers her a completely different deal.
Correction: Chloe's been doing the investigative reporting/snooping thing for a while now. It's very likely she's made preparations for if she were to disappear or die, like a sealed letter with her voice mail/computer passwords or people other than the authorities to come looking for her if she disappears. (As we see next season, when Lois does just that.) Lionel is smart enough to consider this possibility as well.
13th Oct 2004
Corrected entry: In October of 2004, Shawn had brain surgery after a severe motorcycle accident. However, his full head of thick hair was untouched. In actuality, it would have to have been extensively shaved in order for brain surgery to be performed.
Correction: Not necessarily. My sister had brain surgery about 10 years ago, and she only had a small area shaved (the area where surgery was required).
21st Jun 2004
The Truth Is Out There... and It Hurts - S1-E8
Corrected entry: When the demon approached Tanya in the elevator, there were several other people in there with them. The demon immediately started talking about how hard it was to find her, and how she was never alone - which she still isn't, but he doesn't mention that. From Tanya's facial expression, she thought he was very creepy. We cut to Phoebe and Prue trying to get to Tanya before the demon can kill her. Then we see the demon dragging Tanya through the parking lot. But they were in an elevator full of people, and he was some sort of masher, at the very least. Plus, she was in the middle of work, transporting a loaded dolly, so it's extremely unlikely that he could have lured her away. How did he manage to drag her out and into the parking lot?
Correction: Intimidation? A spell? A special power he possessed? There are enough reasonable possibilities to prevent this from being a mistake.
26th Jun 2004
Corrected entry: In this episode, the Charmed Ones travel into the past, to 1975. Prue explains to Piper that one of the reasons Patty became a waitress was because, "With Dad gone, she had to pay the bills somehow." However, Patty was in the earliest stages of her pregnancy in this episode, while episode 1-3: "Thank You for Not Morphing" established that Victor didn't leave the family until after Phoebe was born.
Correction: When Barbas makes the girls relive their worst memories, Piper's is her father leaving "for the last time," implying that Victor left and came back several times before leaving for good. Given Victor and Patty's rocky marriage, this would have been another of those periods when he was gone and Patty had to make ends meet on her own.
21st Dec 2003
Corrected entry: The second time the day happens, Tru moves the vase because she remembers that Sam knocked it over during the party. She foolishly moves it to the top of the television, a place where it could be knocked over just as easily. It turns out that she only did that so that Sam could wind up knocking it over anyway, causing Tru to realize that he did it out of anger and not clumsiness, and that he's the one who killed Mark.
Correction: But because he broke it in anger it only mattered that it was somewhere he had easy access to it, not its exact position. Her moving it to the TV is perfectly rational since she assume it was clumsiness and no one bumped into the TV on the first run through.
25th Aug 2005
Corrected entry: Near the beginning of the film, Andy and his neighbor discuss their plans to watch "Survivor" together the following night. The subsequent dialogue at Andy's office makes it very clear that the current day is Monday, and therefore tomorrow would be Tuesday. However, "Survivor" airs on Thursday.
Correction: Who is to say that they are not watching the repeats of Survivor on The Outdoor Life Channel. It comes on about 3-4 days a week.
5th May 2005
Corrected entry: On 5/2/05, Roman goes on and on about how Kate should have waited a year after his apparent death before moving on. However, Roman "died" at the stroke of New Year's, 2004, which means that it had in fact been sixteen months.
Correction: Actually, Kate knew that Roman was once alive on the island. Really, that was about four or so months ago that Roman once again "died" while trying to come home to Kate. When John returned to Salem, he told Kate about how everyone was alive on the island.
8th Dec 2003
Corrected entry: Where was Paige's body found? That's the kind of information Marco usually gives when he brings in a body, but not this time. The only reason for him to not say anything about it in this episode is because it would have made the plot too simplistic. Tru thought Paige was killed in the experiment, in which case the corpse would most likely have been found in the condemned building. But since Paige was actually killed by her neighbor, it would have been found somewhere else. We also get no information about how the neighbor disposed of the body. If we and Tru had gotten that information, the action could have been resolved in all of ten minutes.
Correction: Both the guy of the experiment and her neighbour would surely try to hide the body somewhere, and for the plot it would make no difference where the corpse was found.
29th Apr 2005
Erection Day - S9-E7
Corrected entry: Why doesn't Jimmy know what to do with an erection? In episode 6-16: "My Future Self n' Me," he says that he and his girlfriend took ecstasy and had sex.
Correction: In "My Future Self n' Me", Jimmy was telling a joke. This is obvious because among other things, if he'd actually taken ecstasy then he wouldn't have been afraid to touch the marijuana. Jimmy presumably heard the "in her vagina" joke somewhere and just recognized it'd be funny in that situation.
24th Apr 2004
Corrected entry: Natalie reads a newspaper article about the Gates Falls Mills fire, which states that the mill used child labor in sixteen hour shifts "to meet the incessant demand for uniforms for the Union army." It goes on to lament the sadness of these events of "All Souls Day [November 1], 1869." But the Civil War ended in 1865, after which the terminology "Union army" would not have been used.
Correction: Yes, but in the finale, Mrs. Druse states that the war ended before the Mill burned and the shifts went from 16 to 12 hours. In the newspaper they were just giving a bit of background info.
13th Sep 2003
Corrected entry: In September of 2003, everyone seems to immediately assume that Alice Horton is becoming senile when she says that she has been seeing the ghost of her dead husband Tom. The general consensus in Salem is that there's no such thing as ghosts. How can everybody be this incredulous, when they all know full well that Marlena was possessed by the Devil in 1995?
Correction: Just because they believe in the Devil doesn't mean they believe in ghosts. Christians believe in the Devil but don't necessarily believe in ghosts.
7th Nov 2005
Corrected entry: After Paris is ravaged by the storm at the beginning of the movie, the team of experts in Washington, DC is watching a new report that the storm system decimated much of the American Midwest. The new report is captioned, "C6 storm leaves destruction of Las Vegas to Chicago." C6 is a reference to the "Category 6" of the first film's title. However, there is no such thing as a Category 6 storm; the maximum is Category 5, no matter how much more powerful a given storm is than the threshold for that classification. In fact, the storm described in the first film was a Category 4 hurricane.
Correction: This might be a bit long: The Saffir-Simpson scale is not sent down by God, it is man created. According to Robert Simpson, co-creator of the scale, the scale stopped at 156mph for 2 reasons: 1) The damage inflicted by wind speeds above 156mph pretty much looks all the same. 2) Cat5 storms WERE pretty rare. There is debate, and has been for some time, about changing the scale or modifying it. In whatever fictional timeline the movie exists, the scale could have been easily altered and increased. http://www.livescience.com/forcesofnature/051020_hurricane_winds.html.
8th Nov 2003
Corrected entry: How was Nick able to save the little girl while still dying himself? We know that when he saved the boy the first time the day happened, he became trapped when the floor below him collapsed, and he told the boy to go on without him. Tru told him about the floor the second time, so he and the boy made it out safely. Then Nick went back in for the girl, and all we know is that the girl was saved and he still died. There is no explanation of what happened to somehow kill him after he saved the girl.
Correction: The is no explanation given in the episode but there are plenty of possible explanations of how someone could die in a burning building without any protective gear.
31st Aug 2005
Corrected entry: On 8/22/05, Ivy introduced herself to Chris as "Ivy Crane." However, her name has been Ivy Winthrop for several years.
Correction: On the 8/23/05 episode, Ivy said that her last name is Crane, and there are several explanations. To try to deliberately impress the reporter (Chris) for whatever conniving reason, that she was once a Crane (married to Sheridan's brother Julian, no less), or it could have been an accidental slip of the tongue because she spent so many years as a Crane. But regardless of what the reason is, this is still just a character's mistake.
7th Nov 2004
Forever Red - S1-E34
Corrected entry: This episode features a reunion of ten past and present Red Rangers from the different Power Rangers series. At the climax of the episode, all ten rangers morph. However, this should be impossible, as several of the ranger powers had either ceased to exist (as in the case of the Lost Galaxy powers) or been given up by their previous holders (such as Jason, who ceded the original Mighty Morphin' powers to Rocky).
Correction: The Lost Galaxy powers are still around, just dormant inside the Quesar Sabers. As for Jason, his Power Coin was dupilicated using the Sword of Light, hence why there are two Red, Black, and Yellow Rangers during "The Power Transfer (2)." Since Jason was not in the battle with Rito in "Ninja Quest (1)," his Coin was still active. Or, if you choose, it healed itself (much like Adam's coin started doing in between "Ninja Quest (1)" and "Always a Chance"). As for T.J.'s powers, they were restored once the attack on Eltar stopped, since Justin was able to become a Turbo Ranger later on.
3rd Feb 2005
Every Day a Little Death - S1-E12
Corrected entry: Lynette's children are at home during the poker game, which we later learn takes place every week on Tuesday at lunch. So the three school-age children should be at school. Even if there's a good reason for one school to have a day off, the twins are at a different school from their brother, and the two schools coincidentally having the same random day off is so unlikely as to be Impossible, unless commented on in the script.
Correction: It is not Impossible for the two schools to have the same day off. It could either be early dismissal for parent-teacher conferences, or a teachers in service day, which coincide for the whole district because of the bussing system. It could even be spring break.
25th Sep 2003
Corrected entry: It doesn't seem reasonable for all of the main characters to be Catholic. We have seen that the ancestors of the Cranes and Bennett were Puritans - early Protestant immigrants to New England. There are very few African American Catholics in the United States, and the vast majority of those few live in Louisiana, so it's incalculably more likely that the Russells would be Methodists or Baptists. Of all the central families, only the Lopez-Fitzgeralds really make sense as Catholics.
Correction: That does not make it impossible that they could all be Catholic.
6th Jul 2005
Corrected entry: When Justin's father goes into Justin's room to talk to him about his internet habits near the beginning of the movie, he is wearing a tie. When he comes into his own bedroom from the hallway, he is neither wearing nor holding the tie.
Correction: An unspecified amount of time has passed between the two shots and the tie could have been removed and left somewhere else any time before he walks into his own bedroom - eg his son's room, the bathroom, the hallway. It is unnecessary to have every single moment or action onscreen.
22nd Dec 2004
Corrected entry: When Flynn sees the sword set in a stone, he identifies it as Excalibur. But the legendary sword in the stone was not Excalibur. Excalibur was a different sword, given to Arthur by the Lady of the Lake, years after he withdrew the sword from the stone.
Correction: Actually, there is major disagreement in the world of Arthurian legends. Some say that the sword pulled from the stone was Excalibur and others say Arthur received it from the Lady in the Lake. Flynn belongs to the former group.
Correction: Simple character mistake.
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