Destination Moon: Part 2 - S3-E10
Continuity mistake: The plane that lands in Syldavia has a yellow stripe when it is first landing, but has a blue stripe when the passengers are exiting the plane. (00:25:05)
Destination Moon: Part 1 - S3-E9
Continuity mistake: When Tintin sees the detonator for the rocket, the two levers controlling the rocket are seen behind him. The levers are both level with each other, but once Tintin has rewired the detonator, the levers are in two different positions. (00:20:00)
Destination Moon: Part 1 - S3-E9
Continuity mistake: To launch the model rocket into outer space, Tintin pushes a lever with a green handle. Once the control tower is told to engage the nuclear motor, the first lever that Tintin had pushed is now a blue lever and the second lever that Tintin is now holding onto is a grey lever. Two shots after that, both the levers are now green. (00:16:00 - 00:16:35)
Destination Moon: Part 1 - S3-E9
Continuity mistake: When the car taking Tintin, Haddock and Snowy to meet with Calculus leaves the airport, the number plate is 1941, but when they are welcomed after entering the base, the number plate is now 1491. (00:02:10 - 00:03:45)
The Castafiore Emerald: Part 2 - S3-E8
Continuity mistake: When Castafiore is complaining about the stairs not being fixed, the first shot of her shows nothing on the torso section of the dress she is wearing, but when the shot is on her next, a small design has suddenly appeared on the chest area of her dress. (00:24:55)
The Castafiore Emerald: Part 1 - S3-E7
Revealing mistake: When Castafiore is showing everyone the Castafiore emerald, after she says "He named it in my honour", the shot cuts to a close-up of her hand, saying "The Castafiore Emerald." At the start of the shot, she has two rings on two fingers, then she turns her hand and the two rings vanish from her fingers entirely. (00:09:00)
The Castafiore Emerald: Part 1 - S3-E7
Continuity mistake: After Haddock tells the gypsies that they can camp near Marlinspike Hall, Tintin and Haddock return to the manor. As they walk up the stairs, Haddock has his cane in his left hand, but when they walk through the door, Haddock suddenly has his cane in his right hand. (00:03:35)
Prisoners of the Sun: Part 2 - S3-E6
Continuity mistake: When Tintin climbs up the cliff to rescue Snowy from the condor's nest, he is carrying a rope over his right shoulder, but from a much further away angle, the rope is suddenly placed over his left shoulder. (00:26:10)
Prisoners of the Sun: Part 1 - S3-E5
Revealing mistake: When Tintin is swimming back to the boat after escaping the ship, Haddock is quickly rowing back and forth to reach him in time. As Haddock rows, the bars used to place the oars through can be seen moving back and forth, along with the movements of the oars, even though the bars are supposed to remain still during the oar movements. There are also frames from this shot where the bars vanish from the frame entirely as Haddock rows. (00:07:25)
The Seven Crystal Balls: Part 2 - S3-E4
Factual error: The shed that the intruder fires at Tintin and Haddock from has a lock shown on the interior side of the door, but no lock shown from the exterior side of the door. (00:30:15)
The Seven Crystal Balls: Part 2 - S3-E4
Continuity mistake: When Haddock kicks the hat laid on top of a brick, the brick is right next to a railway track, but when Haddock yells out "Hooligans" to the kids and picks up the brick, the brick is much further away. (00:39:50)
The Seven Crystal Balls: Part 2 - S3-E4
Continuity mistake: When Professor Calculus walks up to Tarragon's room, he is asking "Is Hercule in?", standing with in the doorway. In the next shot, he is suddenly standing entirely outside of the room and the detective is in the doorway instead. (00:27:25)
The Seven Crystal Balls: Part 2 - S3-E4
Continuity mistake: When Tintin says "The curse of Rascar Capac has come true", the detective has black hair and a black moustache, but in the next shot, his hair and moustache are now a much more reddish-brown colour. (00:25:10)
The Seven Crystal Balls: Part 1 - S3-E3
Continuity mistake: When Snowy is sniffing along the floor, the detective can be seen standing along the carpet by the door, but when he asks Tintin about his dog, he is suddenly standing far away from the door. (00:20:25)
The Seven Crystal Balls: Part 1 - S3-E3
Continuity mistake: When Mr. Falconer is in the taxi, driving to Tintin's apartment, the number plate is white, but when the taxi arrives at the apartment, the number plate is red. (00:11:55)
The Seven Crystal Balls: Part 1 - S3-E3
Continuity mistake: When Tintin goes to phone the members of the expedition, he places his address book beside the phone a few inches from it, and the phone is near the centre of the table. In the next shot, the phone and the address book are suddenly nearer to the edge of the table. (00:11:15)
The Seven Crystal Balls: Part 1 - S3-E3
Continuity mistake: When Tintin tells Thomson and Thompson that they should warn the other members of the expedition, Tintin places his left hand on his phone and pushes it to the other side of the table. In the closeup, it's now his right hand, and the telephone wire moves too. (00:10:25)
The Seven Crystal Balls: Part 1 - S3-E3
Continuity mistake: At the theatre performance, Ragdalam the Fakir is shown putting Madame Yamilah into a state of hypnosis. When Ragdalam starts telling Madame Yamilah that he is putting her into a state of hypnosis, she is facing the audience, but in the next shot, she has suddenly turned 90° to face Ragdalam. (00:05:45)
The Seven Crystal Balls: Part 1 - S3-E3
Continuity mistake: After General Alcazar performs his knife throwing act, Tintin says he knew General Alcazar in South Africa. At this moment, Alcazar is onstage standing on his own, but in the next shot, a stage hand has suddenly appeared onstage beside him. The knife holster has also suddenly reappeared onstage. (00:05:25)
The Red Sea Sharks: Part 2 - S3-E2
Continuity mistake: When the submarine fires on the cargo ship, Haddock yells "Full speed ahead" and pulls back the lever controlling the speed, but the lever snaps off, leaving it positioned at the SLOW sign, putting the ship in reverse. A few shots later, when Haddock puts a screwdriver against where the lever is place, it is suddenly positioned towards the HALF sign. (00:40:20)
Chosen answer: If Hector was seriously intent on removing King Ottokar's scepter from the glass cage holding it and launching it through the window with the camera, then Hector would have been forced to knock out the two guards so they would not have interfered with Hector's plan as soon as he removed the scepter from the glass. As for Hector, himself, was explained when Tintin was explaining how Hector stole the scepter. Tintin placed a twig inside the camera and it launched out of the camera. Hector would have placed the scepter inside of the camera, and would have been knocked unconscious due to the spring effect created when the scepter had been launched.
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