Continuity mistake: When Rey wakes up restrained as Kylo Ren's "guest" at Starkiller Base, Kylo Ren's mask has distinctive surface markings and a hole, but when he removes his mask and sets it down in the closeup it's a flipped shot - the marks and hole have switched sides. (01:25:50 - 01:26:25)
Super Grover
6th Apr 2016
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
6th Apr 2016
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
Continuity mistake: After the spy, Bazine, communicates that she's found the droid at Maz Kanata's, in the following side closeup of Kylo Ren we have a good view of the distinctive surface dents/hole on the side of his mask (his left side) and this is a flipped shot, then in the front closeup of Ren those dents/hole are now on the opposite side of his mask with different marks the other side. (00:58:55)
6th Apr 2016
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
Continuity mistake: After the First Order has destroyed the Hosnian system, including Hosnian Prime, Finn rushes up to Han and asks him where Rey is, and when it cuts to the shot of Rey running in the forest it's a flipped shot - note the leather cuff is on Rey's right wrist, etc., then in the next shot the cuff is on her left wrist as it should be. (01:11:05)
4th Apr 2016
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
Continuity mistake: When Rey fixes the Falcon's electrical overload she pulls out blue and red wires, but just as she says, "I bypassed the compressor," in this shot facing her there are only four blue wires - no red, and then the red wires reappear with the blue. (00:51:55)
4th Apr 2016
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
Continuity mistake: When Rey returns to her home in the AT-AT she scratches another mark into the wall, and in the next closeup just as she sits down the top part of Rey's outfit is crisscrossed with her left side over the right and her hip bag is at her left side, but after Rey fills her plate and takes her food, she stands up and her top is crisscrossed the opposite way, etc. The first shot is flipped - note the background, compared to the second shot. (00:13:55)
1st Apr 2016
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: While Brackett is with Ken in the ER he's wearing a blue/white striped tie, and when he calls Ken's doctor the tie is tied differently, but then it's tied the original way.
30th Mar 2016
Emergency! (1972)
Continuity mistake: After Johnny and the attendants exit the ambulance with Dora, the pregnant woman, the ambulance is empty and the drug box is on the seat with the Biophone on the floor beside the seat, but in the next shot as the gurney is wheeled inside, the drug box is now on the floor between the Biophone and seat.
30th Mar 2016
Star Trek (1966)
Where No Man Has Gone Before - S1-E4
Revealing mistake: After the ship enters the galactic barrier, when Kirk orders "navigation on automatic" there are flashes of light, and in a closeup of the first console just to the left of the main viewscreen, we can see the special effects material spread across the panel below the controls, for the fire to burn when it explodes. Then it cuts to the wideshot as a second console (near Spock's station) blows up, but in the background that first console is intact - no fire/damage whatsoever (it explodes again in a following wideshot). (00:10:00)
30th Mar 2016
Star Trek (1966)
Where No Man Has Gone Before - S1-E4
Continuity mistake: When Kirk exits the turbolift he sits in the captain's chair, and Yeoman Smith stands behind him with barely any space between them, but in the shot facing the main viewscreen Smith is gone, and in the next shot she reappears right behind Kirk again. Smith continues to disappear and reappear in following shots. (00:04:00)
30th Mar 2016
Star Trek (1966)
Where No Man Has Gone Before - S1-E4
Visible crew/equipment: When Mitchell tells Kelso that Dehner is a "walking freezer unit" we can see wires and other equipment on the floor, in front of the helm and navigation console. (00:05:35)
28th Mar 2016
Star Trek (1966)
Visible crew/equipment: When Dr. Van Gelder tells Kirk that he wants asylum and his word that he won't be taken back to Tantalus, in the wideshot from behind Kirk as he moves to his right the two tape marks can be seen on the floor beside Van Gelder's feet.
28th Mar 2016
Star Trek (1966)
What Are Little Girls Made Of? - S1-E8
Revealing mistake: When Korby introduces the new android Kirk to Chapel, as the duplicator table slowly turns the edit in the footage can be seen in this shot, just as the real Kirk suddenly vanishes from the space he was in.
28th Mar 2016
Star Trek (1966)
What Are Little Girls Made Of? - S1-E8
Continuity mistake: While Kirk's trying to convince Ruk that Korby's creating the same danger just like the Old Ones, when Kirk tells him that humans are full of unpredictable emotions, the closeup of Kirk is a flipped shot (the jumpsuit's blue and green switch sides).
28th Mar 2016
Star Trek (1966)
What Are Little Girls Made Of? - S1-E8
Visible crew/equipment: After Roger's introduction, when Kirk tries to communicate with Rayburn for security confirmation and also when Andrea walks over to Kirk, a few actors' tape marks can be seen on the floor and rug.
28th Mar 2016
Star Trek (1966)
Mudd's Women - S1-E7
Continuity mistake: During Mudd's hearing Eve's sitting in the chair beside Mudd, but when Kirk states that the hearing is closed and that Mud will be handed over to legal authorities, in the wideshot Eve's chair is empty, but in the next closeup Eve is still sitting in the chair. (00:18:15)
28th Mar 2016
Star Trek (1966)
Visible crew/equipment: When Spock walks into the briefing room, he stands in front of the closed doors telling himself that he's in control of his emotions, and when he says, "My duty," the shadow of the boom mic can be seen moving across the wall at the top of the screen. (00:36:40)
28th Mar 2016
Numb3rs (2005)
Visible crew/equipment: When Don and David chase down Jose Salazar and get him down on the ground to cuff him, a crewmember (presumably the second cameraman shooting Jose's low angle closeups) is lying on his back behind David.
28th Mar 2016
Numb3rs (2005)
Visible crew/equipment: After the Secret Service agent calls the counterfeiters "our guys," when it cuts to them back at the office at least three actors' T-marks are visible on the floor.
28th Mar 2016
Numb3rs (2005)
Visible crew/equipment: After Charlie comes up with the idea of creating a false master key and designing the lock that it opens, when it cuts to them back at the office the yellow T-mark can be seen on the floor by David's foot.
28th Mar 2016
Numb3rs (2005)
Continuity mistake: When Charlie explains that his map was generated by an equation he writes the equation in abbreviated form on the whiteboard, and also when he writes the equation for the probability of winning the lottery, in following shots the handwriting changes and some of it vanishes and reappears.
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