24th Feb 2004
A New World - S3-E20
Corrected entry: Connor's stake cannon has 3 barrels, all of which are assumed to be loaded, when he arrives. During the episode teaser, he fires one stake from each of the three barrels. After the credits, he fires two more stakes from the top barrel and one from the right. Of course, he hasn't stopped to reload and it's obvious that there is no room in the simple device for more than a single projectile and the launching mechanism. (00:00:15 - 00:01:50)
23rd Sep 2004
Corrected entry: Kyle (in the white-haired mask) tosses a rope ladder down the ETS skylight. In the shot from above, he is wearing a black glove; in the following shot from below, he is barehanded. (00:47:10)
3rd Apr 2004
Corrected entry: In preparation for the attack, Sam is seen crushing a huge sack of garlic, one bulb at a time. But when he contributes to the garlic-holy water bathtub, most of the garlic is still in bulb form, and the crushed garlic is never seen or mentioned anywhere else. (01:15:40)
Correction: They mixed the crushed garlic with holy water to make their "hand grenades", and other small weapons. The reason it is not crushed in the bathtub is that it would take two days to crush all of the bulbs.
1st May 2004
Corrected entry: As Riddick is taking advantage of the raptor's blind spot, he is audibly stepping back and forth in a puddle. Even if the alien's sonar couldn't detect him, it would still be able to hear his footsteps. There's no possibility that it simply doesn't hear that noise, because the sound is similar in pitch to the aliens' sonar ping. With a sound like that the alien would be able to position him fairly accurately.
Correction: Considering that it is raining during this scene it is logical to assume that the raptor associates the splashing noises Riddick makes (which are pretty faint) to the rain. Since it is hearing a splashing noise and can't see anything in front of it the creature's assumption would likely be simple raindrops.
24th Mar 2004
Corrected entry: The dinosaur that rises from the lake is an apatosaurus (or something from the same family). Apatosaurus is herbivorous, and would never try to eat humans as depicted. Even if the species had changed its diet in the millions of years since its apparent decease, its body is not appropriate for hunting: too big, too bulky, too slow, etc.
Correction: The hippopotamus is bulky, slow, and herbivorous too. It's aquatic as well. It contributes to a huge number of human deaths every year by biting them. It's rarely in self-defense, and more out of general aggression.
Correction: It was just being territorial. It's never shown eating people, it just bites and chews them up in its mouth and spits them out.
28th Jul 2004
Corrected entry: Near the beginning, Spooner crosses the street to try to avoid talking to his young friend. In the background is a Sushi Express restaurant. They then continue walking down the other side of the street, but at the end of their conversation Spooner is standing in front of the same restaurant. They've moved at most fifty yards or so, not enough to find another location.
Correction: There are places in the US where you can find a Starbucks across the street from a Starbucks, so this is plausable for the future.
19th Dec 2004
Corrected entry: Kessler says during the TV interview that the reason the Martians went undetected by the Mars probe is that the probe didn't investigate the very deep Martian canals. There are no canals on Mars - the appearance of lines on the surface was caused by the faults of early telescopes, extensively documented in the 19th century and extensively debunked in the 20th. (00:18:35)
Correction: The movie is a spoof of the 1950s sci-fi B movies, just set in modern times. In the 50s they still believed there were canals. You could add that since there are no Martians on Mars, that is a factual error too.
21st Jun 2004
Corrected entry: At the beginning of the episode, Whitney says that Coach Walt's next game will be his two hundredth win. Later, while talking to the principal, Walt says that he has "been leading this team to victory for twenty-five years." Two hundred wins in twenty-five years is only eight wins per year, not really an impressive record. (00:02:25 - 00:16:50)
Correction: Eight wins per year would be a winning season every year for 25 years since most high schools only play 10 to 12 games per year. I think that's impressive.
21st Jun 2004
Corrected entry: Clark's X-Ray vision reveals that the cemetery is rather oddly set up. There are a dozen headstones visible but only four buried coffins, and three of them don't line up with any headstone. Two of the coffins contain complete skeletons, but the other two are either empty or lead. While the occupants could have decomposed entirely, they are directly next to the younger corpses; usually cemeteries fill in one area and then proceed to another, segregating graves by age. (00:39:45)
Correction: Cemetaries SELL plots a section at the time, but they don't fill them till the people that buy them actually get around to dying so you will frequently have series of graves belonging to the same family that only have one or two graves "occupied" but may have headstones (with no death date) for some or all of the empty ones.
5th Dec 2004
Corrected entry: The stake Xander uses to kill Jesse disappears immediately afterward. It's not in Xander's hand, but if it was buried in Jesse's chest it would have clattered to the ground as he turned to dust. (00:41:10)
Correction: If a stake in in a vampires chest & not touching another person then the stake also turns to dust (this has happened to various other vampires in the series).
25th Mar 2004
Corrected entry: How could Indy possibly believe that a double handful of dirt scooped outside the cave could weigh as much as the gold idol (to avoid setting off traps related to lifting the idol)? He even takes some dirt out of the bag to try to match the weight. Indy must have experience with the weight of gold from other artifacts, and he already knows how sophisticated the traps at this site are. From the way Indy tosses it and the sound it makes when his assistant catches it, the idol is definitely solid stone or metal, even if it's only gold plated. If Indy didn't know what the internal material was, there was no way he could possibly judge the weight. In any case, dirt is less dense than any solid rock and wouldn't weigh the same. (00:07:55)
Correction: Indy knew what the arifact was that he was looking for, how big it was, and what it made of. So he brought a pouch of dirt in with his best guess of it's weight. It obviously was a bad guess as it didn't weigh the same or the trap would not have been triggered.
The purported weight mismatch isn't the only issue - Indy takes the idol off before tossing the bag of dirt onto the base/sensor, so there is also a clear, if small, interval of time when there is no weight on the base/sensor at all. I always thought that was what actually triggered it.
14th Apr 2004
Corrected entry: As Mort is preparing to pull the screwdriver out of dead Tom Greenleaf, Tom's right eye develops a nasty tic.
Correction: If you watch the featurette entitled "Secrets Revealed" in the DVD version of Secret Window, the director tells us that the "dead" body of Tom Greenleaf is actually made out of plastic. That "nasty tic" must have been a figment of your imagination considering that plastic heads don't develop nasty tics.
8th Oct 2004
Corrected entry: In one shot where Mac is firing the minigun and screaming, it's very clear that the ammo belt isn't feeding into the gun, just sticking out the side motionless. (00:48:15)
Correction: The ammo feeder is fixed and doesnt move. The ammo is on his back in the box and is fed through the feeder. It is just a guide for the ammo.
9th Jul 2004
Corrected entry: Ash and his car enter the rift one minute apart, with many trees and bits of the cabin in between them. However, they manage to land in 1300 AD next to each other with none of the detritus. (01:17:20 - 01:18:35)
Correction: Who is to say what rules govern magical temporal tears in time/space?
24th Jul 2004
Corrected entry: In the pit, the distance between the spike walls constantly changes. It's very obvious from the first shot above that the walls are closing quickly and Ash only has twenty seconds at most, but the fight continues much longer. (00:13:30)
Correction: The spiked walls are being closed by people turning the wheel above the pit. It is possible that they were not turning it at a constant speed.
21st Jun 2004
Corrected entry: The exercising Stepford Wives manage to drop their poles neatly on the hard floor without bending over and without making a sound.
Correction: The DVD version of the film was edited so that the wives have enough time offscreen to do this. This mistake no longer applies.
15th Oct 2004
Corrected entry: Max says she broke into the Italian embassy to get olive oil. She lives in Seattle and the Italian embassy is in Washington, DC, across the country. I really doubt she managed to travel several thousand miles considering how tightly policed travel is between sectors and regions. (00:01:40)
Correction: Seattle has an office of the Italian Trade Commision which is a branch of their embassy - see www.italyemb.org.
2nd Sep 2004
Corrected entry: Why did the Predators store their tracking weapons, the one real advantage they have over the Aliens, in a chest that humans could open? That's not a necessary plot device, it's begging for trouble. The humans aren't considered to be part of the hunt, only a mechanism for the Aliens to be born. Even if part of the trial is reaching the chest, why would it have the same writing taught to the humans if only Predators are intended to open it instead of in the Predator language?
Correction: Part of the trial is to reach the chest with only hand weapons. The humans that come since the temple froze over didn't know it was there (and wouldn't be able to read Aztec heiroglyphs to open it even if they did), and when there were humans living there they wouldn't dare even touch the chest, after all they were told to stay out of it by their GODS!
2nd Sep 2004
Corrected entry: Supposedly the original human civilization that worshipped the Predators was destroyed when the Predators under trial lost against the Aliens and set off their bombs, decimating the city and killing all humans and Aliens in the surrounding area. How did the trial temple survive? At the end, it was destroyed by the same type of bomb, so it's not immune to the weaponry. If the Predators rebuilt it recently they wouldn't have bothered to include human script on all the walls to explain its purpose.
Correction: We see from the architecture in the pyramid that the predators where visiting cultures all over the planet. Eqypt (north Africa), South America, Asia. So the one that was destroyed in the flashback, was just one of the places on the planet that they used, not the only one.
24th Jul 2004
Corrected entry: The stocks Ash is wearing at the beginning depend on the hand being larger than the wrist and thus not able to squeeze back out through the wrist-sized hole. How does Ash's handless wrist stay in it? (00:00:25)
Correction: Ash's arm is chained up in a way that it wouldn't come out. There are chains that go from the stock to his elbow holding his arm in place.
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Correction: The shot is off Connor for a long time after he fires the first stake (as it follows the stake across the room and shows Groo and Gunn starting to charge) and Connor can move at incredibly fast speeds, so it's possible he reloaded the device during that space of time, which would explain why 4 stakes are fired from a device that only holds three.
Shay