Once More, With Feeling - S6-E7
Continuity mistake: When Buffy jumps off the stage in the Bronze that Dawn and Sweet are on and starts dancing, one of Sweet's goons that is lying unconscious moves from the far left of the bottom of the stage to the far right between shots.
Once More, With Feeling - S6-E7
Continuity mistake: From the start of the second scene in the Magic Box, the doughnut and cruller on Xander's plate constantly switch places. (00:03:35 - 00:05:50)
Once More, With Feeling - S6-E7
Audio problem: When Tara sings to Willow and sings "nothing i can do", her lips don't move.
Once More, With Feeling - S6-E7
Continuity mistake: When Buffy is singing her final song in the Bronze Tara and Anya are standing in the background watching, if you look closely you can see their hands keep changing places between shots, crossed to uncrossed and so on. (00:42:00)
Once More, With Feeling - S6-E7
Visible crew/equipment: Right after the "I'll never tell" song, Giles, Anya and Xander walk down the sidewalk, the cameraman is visible for a short time in the windows on their left. (00:17:05)
Once More, With Feeling - S6-E7
Revealing mistake: During the song-and-dance number "They Got The Mustard Out", if you look closely at the dancers, the man in green to camera right of the second row is horribly out of step with the music, and with the rest of the group. The spell makes everyone dance far better than they naturally would (Tara loses the clumsiness she often displays, for example), so it is a mistake to have someone under the spell dancing so badly.
Once More, With Feeling - S6-E7
Continuity mistake: During "Something to Sing About, when Buffy sings, "You don't get to rehearse," Tara walks past the support pole behind her. In the next shot from an angle, she's closer to the middle of the room and the pole is not visible. (00:41:40)
Once More, With Feeling - S6-E7
Continuity mistake: When Buffy is singing "Something to Sing About", she sings the verse beginning 'All the joy life sends, family and friends', and we see that Anya and Tara are stood in the background, about 3 metres apart from each other. However, for one shot, they appear less than 1 metre from each other. (00:42:05)
Once More, With Feeling - S6-E7
Continuity mistake: The demons that Buffy fights in 'Once More, With Feeling' change positions on the floor during the next song. (00:43:45)
Once More, With Feeling - S6-E7
Continuity mistake: In the musical episode, 'Once More, With Feeling', when Buffy is singing her song in the Bronze, 'Something to Sing About', she breaks a pool cue over a demon's head. She holds the remains in her right hand and clubs another demon in the face with it, then the camera cuts to another angle and it's in her left hand when she stabs the next demon with it.
Once More, With Feeling - S6-E7
Continuity mistake: During the final song, everyone, including Spike, sings "When Does the End Appear?", however, one shot later, Spike is seen starting to sing the word "appear" again and then he stops.
Once More, With Feeling - S6-E7
Audio problem: During Buffy's first song she does a spinning kick to a vampire's face as she sings, "I've been making shows of trading blows, just hoping no one knows." But as she spins, her lips are not moving.
Once More, With Feeling - S6-E7
Visible crew/equipment: When Buffy kicks the front door of The Bronze down to confront Sweet and save Dawn, a cable can be seen attached to the door used to pull it down.
Once More, With Feeling - S6-E7
Continuity mistake: In the episode 'Once More, With Feeling', when Tara checks out Lethe's Bramble in the book at the Magic Box, she holds the sprig facing to the left in the close-ups, and facing to the right in the long shots. (00:32:30)
Once More, With Feeling - S6-E7
Audio problem: In the episode 'Once More, With Feeling', when Anya sings her first few lines of the song 'I'll Never Tell', you can still hear Xander talking about omelettes in the background, but for the last few lines he speaks (from 'I could do an omelette' onwards) you can see over her shoulder that his voice is dubbed. (00:13:10)
Once More, With Feeling - S6-E7
Audio problem: In the final song "Where Do We Go From Here", you can hear Spike still singing even after he has apparently stopped. He and Buffy continue singing until after the line 'When do the trumpets cheer'. It is noticeable because James Marsters sings the word 'cheer' slightly out of sync with everyone else.
Once More, With Feeling - S6-E7
Revealing mistake: The knives Giles throws during Buffy's training are a very poor CGI job if you watch it in slow mo. All three knives Giles takes off the wall are identical, with a broad curved blade and a plain black handle. The first one has a transparent blade as it flies toward Buffy, then we hear it bounce off the far wall and it's way out of scale for the distance. The second knife has a diamond-patterned grip instead of a plain one. The third knife conveniently spins in midair for a second so Buffy can kick it out of the way. (00:30:35)
Once More, With Feeling - S6-E7
Revealing mistake: When Buffy is singing in the Bronze with Anya and Tara as backup you can see Tara bump into the pillar and then dust herself off. (00:41:45)
Chosen answer: From what we see in the series, certain girls are identifiable as potential Slayers - Kendra clearly fell into this category. The identification method is presumably mystical in nature, but the Watchers' Council are pretty effective at that sort of thing, so they're quite good at tracking down the potentials ahead of time. Not perfect, though - it does appear that Buffy herself may have slipped through the net - certainly she had no inkling of what she was until she'd already taken on the role of Slayer. It is possible, however, that this was actually cultural - an American family would hardly be likely to turn over their daughter to some strange man for 'training', so the Watchers might have chosen to keep an eye on her covertly, whereas some other cultures (like Kendra's Jamaican parents) might be more willing to believe.
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