Lost ( 2004 )

Continuity mistake: When Kate is at Tom's house, she looks at the photographs on the side of the fridge, and there is a close-up of a specific photo of Tom holding Connor. When Kate sits beside the table in the wide shot, that photo has vanished. (00:16:30)

Continuity mistake: When Kate is fleeing with Tom in the car, she slams into the State Trooper's car and the right front end is damaged and a piece of the bumper hangs down. Just after Kate's next close-up, in the next shot from behind, the bumper is fine. (00:33:20)

Continuity mistake: When Kate and Tom find the buried lunchbox, in the close-up, as Kate opens the lid the baseball cap is upright, yet, in the next shot just as she removes it, it lies on its side. (00:22:55)

Continuity mistake: At the motel, when Kate asks for the envelope addressed to Joan Hart, the employee searches through the box with many envelopes sticking out of the box. However, in the next shot, as he finds it no other envelopes are visible, and when he hands it to her, her sunglasses are now upside down. (00:01:50)

Continuity mistake: When Tom removes the toy airplane from the lunchbox, the three propeller pieces are completely broken off of the left wing engine (all are intact on its right wing). Yet, earlier on the island, when Kate twirls the airplane in the air, before Charlie joins her, the left wing engine has grown one piece of propeller that is unbroken. There are other moments such as this, in other episodes. (00:02:40 - 00:23:50)

Continuity mistake: After Kate's confession to the other survivors, she kneels down and scoops up the toy airplane with some sand. However, the next shot is a close-up of the airplane with its nose in the sand, in front of her. (00:35:35)

Continuity mistake: When Kate burns Joanna's passport photo in the close-up the corner of the book burns up, yet in the wider shot the corner does not burn, and in the next shot another change, including the lighter. Later, when Sawyer holds up the passport, the burned page edge is just a bit singed. (00:10:30 - 00:29:00)

Continuity mistake: When Michael is on his back with stomach cramps, both the rolled up and flat blue and grey blankets under him, keep changing position, depending on camera angle. (00:15:20)

Continuity mistake: When Sawyer dumps Kate's belongings out of the backpack onto the sand, their positions on the sand change between various shots. (00:28:45)

Continuity mistake: At the hospital, the way Kate holds the vase of flowers differs between shots. In the front shot, she is holding it by the neck of the vase, and in the rear shot, she is holding it by the bottom. (00:06:50)

Continuity mistake: When Kate runs out of the hospital room, she goes through a door with her right arm/shoulder going first. Camera changes to the other side of the door and now her left arm/shoulder is going through first. (00:31:00)

Continuity mistake: When Sawyer holds up the passport for Michael to see, the way he holds it changes between shots. In the first shot he is holding it at an angle, and in the next it's perfectly level. (00:28:00)

Continuity mistake: When Sawyer throws the bottle to Michael, Michael's arm moves between shots. Easy to tell as in the close up of the bottle, you can see his fingers flat on the floor but they're not there in the next shot. (00:26:30)

Continuity mistake: When Walt is talking to Locke about the injury to his leg, Locke doesn't have a bandage on his leg. However, a couple of seconds later he's pulling his trouser leg down with a bandage around his leg. (00:25:30)

Continuity mistake: When Jin and Sun are talking about Jin going on the raft, the way Jin holds the wire he is tying differs between shots. (00:08:20)

Continuity mistake: When Kate is crying in the car, she has her elbow off the window edge, then back on to the window edge after an instant cut. (00:02:20)

Continuity mistake: When Kate is chucked a beer by Tom, there is a load of froth on the can which disappears instantly. (00:22:05)

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Deux Ex Machina - S1-E19

Continuity mistake: When Jack speaks to Michael and Jin, as they build the raft, and then when he walks up the beach and inquires about Sawyer's trouble with his head, the backpack that Jack carries on his back is nylon, black/green with white trim. Yet, when Sawyer asks, "Sensitivity to light, that bad?" the backpack is suddenly transformed into solid black leather, of an entirely different style. Then, in following shots it jumps back and forth. (00:16:40)

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Quotes

The Glass Ballerina - S3-E2

Benjamin Linus: Your flight crashed on September 22,2004. Today is November 29th. That means you've been on this island for sixty-nine days. And yes, we do have contact with the outside world, Jack. That's how we know that during those sixty-nine days, your fellow Americans re-elected George W. Bush, Christopher Reeve has passed away, Boston Red Sox won the World Series.
[Jack begins to laugh.]
Benjamin Linus: What?
Jack Shepard: [Still laughing.] If you wanted me to believe that, you probably should have picked somebody else besides the Red Sox.
Bejmain Linus: No, they were down 3-0 against the Yankees in the Championship Series and then won eight straight.
Jack Shepard: [Skeptically.] Sure, sure. Of course they did.
[Ben turns on a VCR.]
Joe Buck: Back to Foulke... Red Sox fans have longed to hear it! The Boston Red Sox are world champions! A clean sweep of the St. Louis Cardinals, and the Red Sox celebrate in the middle of the diamond here at Busch Stadium.

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Trivia

Trivia: In series 2, episode 2, at around the 35 minute mark when the camera goes underwater to show the shark swimming past, the shark has the Dharma logo on the back end of it. (00:33:35)

Sam Johnson

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Questions

The End (2) - S6-E18

Question: I recently submitted a question about whether everyone died on the plane or on the island. The answer I got was unsatisfactory. The answer was they did not all die in the plane crash but on the island where the events in the show really did happen. If this is the case, everyone in purgatory at the end makes no sense. If they all died on the island, then where were other characters like Michael, Ecko, etc. Also how did Kate, Sawyer, Hurley, Ben, etc. end up dead and in purgatory at the end of the series? Last we saw them they were still alive on the island. Are we to assume that everyone died at the end of last season when the bomb went off? I need more info here.

SAZOO1975

Chosen answer: None of the main characters died in the plane crash. Many died on the island after the crash (Jack, Charlie, Sun, Jin, Daniel, Juliet, others), some lived on the island for an apparently long time after the crash (Hurley, Ben, Bernard, Rose) but some lived lives off the island after the crash (Sawyer, Kate, Claire, Miles, Aplert, and Lapidus). Remember that Christian tells Jack that "time has no meaning here," (in Purgatory). When everyone meets at the church, they are at the end of their lives however long that may have been and will now "move on" together. They look like they did on the island because that is the way they best remember each other.

Guy

That has to be the clearest explanation of the ending I've ever read.