Land of Black Gold: Part 1 - S2-E10
Revealing mistake: When the military police are searching the Speedol Star, two of them barge into Thomson and Thompson's room whilst they are playing cards. After they barge into the room, the two let go of their cards in surprise. Once this happens, there is a card shown near the right hand side of the table that is floating above the table. (00:08:00)
Land of Black Gold: Part 1 - S2-E10
Continuity mistake: When the military police are looking through the detectives' bags, one of them finds a bag that Thomson and Thompson assume to be the secret documents. The man begins to shake it and diamonds fall out. In the first shot of the diamonds falling out, as the shot ends, two diamonds are in the man's hand, followed by a third diamond falling out. The shot cuts and there are suddenly five diamonds in the man's hand, followed by a sixth diamond that falls out. (00:08:15)
Land of Black Gold: Part 1 - S2-E10
Revealing mistake: Tintin sees the four men planting the explosive in the pipe line. Two of the four men are kneeling beside the pipe, one on the front side wearing a brown cloak and green clothing and one on the opposite side wearing grey clothing planting the explosive in the pipe. The man on the opposite side in grey clothing is passing through the pipe when the two are first kneeling. (00:12:20)
Land of Black Gold: Part 1 - S2-E10
Revealing mistake: Mueller hops off his horse and tells Tintin (as Amed) to hold the horse and tells him he will be back in a moment. Throughout the entirety of this shot, the colour of the blanket on Mueller's horse constantly flickers between several frames. As Mueller gets off the horse, the blanket is dark teal, then Mueller hands the rein to his horse to Tintin and the blanket suddenly flickers to dark orange and also dark teal near the bottom. Tintin jumps off the horse and the blanket suddenly flickers back to dark teal again. (00:13:25)
Land of Black Gold: Part 1 - S2-E10
Continuity mistake: After Tintin realises he was right that the man was Mueller, the shot then pans back to Mueller looking at his face in a small mirror. When the shot stops panning, there is nothing reflected in Mueller's mirror. The shot changes to a close-up of the mirror and Mueller's reflection suddenly appears in the mirror. (00:13:55)
Land of Black Gold: Part 1 - S2-E10
Continuity mistake: Tintin is waiting for his meeting with the Emir in the castle. In the first interior shot of the castle whilst Tintin is waiting, the handle on the left side of the door is slightly lower than the handle on the right of the door. A few moments after Tintin walks into the room, the door closes behind him and the two door handles are suddenly level with each other. (00:19:05)
Land of Black Gold: Part 1 - S2-E10
Character mistake: The man who escorts Tintin into the Emir's office asks Tintin if he is here about "today's events in the market" (referring to Thomson and Thompson crashing their jeep), to which Tintin replies "Yes", but seconds later, when Tintin is explaining his reasons to the Emir for visiting him, he states the events with the jeep occurred yesterday. (00:19:20)
Tintin and the Picaros: Part 1 - S2-E8
Character mistake: When the bell on Haddock's clock rings, there is a shot showing the clock with the time on 8:00. All of the numbers used to represent the time shown on the clock are written in roman numerals, however, the roman numeral for the 8 shown on the clock is written out as VI. Eight in roman numerals should be VIII. (00:01:45)
Tintin and the Picaros: Part 1 - S2-E8
Other mistake: After Manolo has told Haddock that the windows don't open, Manolo goes to leave and slips on a banana placed in the doorway. The banana's position in the doorway would not be possible. The banana landed on the floor after Haddock fell over the table in the hotel room and spilled the contents of the fruit bowl all of the room and then Manolo entered the room a second later. When Manolo opened the door, he would have pushed anything in front of the door out of the way. (00:10:25)
Tintin and the Picaros: Part 1 - S2-E8
Continuity mistake: Whilst Tintin and Haddock are discussing how to escape the hotel, a record player is playing so no-one who is watching the conversation can hear them. When Pablo arrives with the drinks and sets them on the table, the record player is visible in the background and not moving, though the music is still heard. Pablo then goes to turn up the music, and the record player is suddenly moving again. (00:12:40)
Tintin and the Picaros: Part 2 - S2-E9
Revealing mistake: When Haddock walks in view of the helicopter pilot, it cuts to an interior shot of the helicopter where the pilot says "What's that? A Picaro by the river?" A couple of shots after this, there is another interior shot of the helicopter where the pilot then says "Caramba. He's disappeared." In both of the two interior shots, it is noticeable that the same footage has been used in both the shots as the exact same land is outside the helicopter is in both of the shots. The only difference in the second shot is that Haddock has been removed. (00:26:20)
Tintin and the Picaros: Part 2 - S2-E9
Other mistake: When Haddock is in the lake, he is sinking, struggling to stay above the water and the water is even going up to his neck area. Tintin then goes into the lake to fetch Haddock and then stands in the exact same area where Haddock is up to his neck in the water, but the water only goes as far as Tintin's knees. (00:26:40)
Tintin and the Picaros: Part 2 - S2-E9
Audio problem: The drunk camp members are firing their guns and the gun shots are heard. Smoke is exiting some of the guns, implying that that particular gun has been fired, but no sound effect is heard going with along with that particular gunshot. (00:27:00)
Tintin and the Picaros: Part 2 - S2-E9
Continuity mistake: General Alcazar fires his gun at the camp member's bottle, destroying it. He fires straight forward, but when the bullet hits the bottle, the bullet is being fired at a vertical angle. (00:27:10)
Land of Black Gold: Part 1 - S2-E10
Continuity mistake: When Tintin is speaking with the Speedol exec, there is a chart on the wall behind the exec. The last marked point is first located around a centimetre away from the nearest line on the chart. Two shots after this, the point is directly on the line on the chart. A further two shots after, the last marked point is suddenly back to where it was. (00:02:05)
Land of Black Gold: Part 1 - S2-E10
Revealing mistake: When Tintin is at the docks, waiting for something to happen, he sees a man walk from the fog into view. The man is transparent and you can see right through him. (00:03:05)
Land of Black Gold: Part 1 - S2-E10
Continuity mistake: Whilst Tintin is waiting at the docks, he is behind a train with a sign on it. Later on in the scene, when Tintin is wondering how he should get on the Speedol Star, the sign has gotten much smaller. (00:03:00 - 00:03:40)
Land of Black Gold: Part 1 - S2-E10
Continuity mistake: When Tintin catches the bag with Snowy in, he holds it in his lap between his legs. Two shots after this, his right leg has changed position and is suddenly stretched out. (00:07:10)
Land of Black Gold: Part 1 - S2-E10
Continuity mistake: When Tintin wakes up in Bab El Ehr's tent, there is a flower pattern on his left and one on his right. When he gets up, they are no longer beside him. (00:09:25)
Land of Black Gold: Part 1 - S2-E10
Continuity mistake: When Bab El Ehr and his men leave Tintin for dead, he is lying on the ground with his head facing forwards. In the next shot, his head is suddenly facing toward the left. (00:11:10)
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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