Continuity and C**k Ups on TV

[Ming the Merciless]

There was one years ago on Coronation Street where 'Bet lynch' had a 20 packet of one brand of ciggies in her hand. Then a few seconds later it was a 10 packet and a different brand.

In different hands though if you look closely. Perhaps she had two packets.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

In Dr Who. They keep changing the actor hoping no one will notice

 

[figbat]

In Dr Who. They keep changing the actor hoping no one will notice

And James Bond.

 

[Dave7]

I seem to get engrossed in whatever I’m watching and am totally oblivious to these things!

Well did you not notice that you went for your morning walk today wearing a full wet suit and arrived home in a bikini ?

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Well did you not notice that you went for your morning walk today wearing a full wet suit and arrived home in a bikini ?

and that Dave7 was stalking @Mo1959 ?

 

[Dave7]

and that Dave7 was stalking @Mo1959 ?

Wrong.
I was stalking Welshie yesterday.
Its Mo tomorrow

 

[Accy cyclist]

In different hands though if you look closely. Perhaps she had two packets.

Well, 'Bet' was a bit of a chain smoker, so maybe she had.🤔

 

[MichaelW2]

Tom and Jerry; they keep passing the same background scenery every 2 seconds!

Don't get me started on Scooby Do...

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Any EastEnders character. The actors keep getting replaced. Has no one noticed?

 

[figbat]

How about the temporal gymnastics in Back to the Future, and the several gaping plot holes that defy the explanations given within the films themselves?

Example 1 - when Einstein is sent forwards 1 minute in time. He disappears from the timeline for a minute and then reappears; Doc Brown explains this very phenomenon to Marty. And yet, when Marty goes forward in time he somehow sees his older self - wouldn’t he have simply disappeared like Einstein did and then reappear in the future, with no other self to see since he was gone from the timeline?

Example 2 - when old Biff nicks the Delorean from the future and takes the Sports Almanac back to 1955, how is he able to then return himself and the Delorean to his original future rather than the alternate one that gets created as a consequence of the Almanac? Again, Doc Brown explains this very reason why they return to a different future from the one they left, so why not Biff?

I know it’s all sci-fi so reality can be suspended but the fact they ignore their own explanations, ones which are at the very heart of the plot, is lazy and/or ignorant writing.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Six pages and the real clangers haven't been mentioned. Cyclechat really is going to the dogs.

 

[stephec]

Six pages and the real clangers haven't been mentioned. Cyclechat really is going to the dogs.

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I met them a few years ago. 😀

 

[Ming the Merciless]

How about the temporal gymnastics in Back to the Future, and the several gaping plot holes that defy the explanations given within the films themselves?

Example 1 - when Einstein is sent forwards 1 minute in time. He disappears from the timeline for a minute and then reappears; Doc Brown explains this very phenomenon to Marty. And yet, when Marty goes forward in time he somehow sees his older self - wouldn’t he have simply disappeared like Einstein did and then reappear in the future, with no other self to see since he was gone from the timeline?

Example 2 - when old Biff nicks the Delorean from the future and takes the Sports Almanac back to 1955, how is he able to then return himself and the Delorean to his original future rather than the alternate one that gets created as a consequence of the Almanac? Again, Doc Brown explains this very reason why they return to a different future from the one they left, so why not Biff?

I know it’s all sci-fi so reality can be suspended but the fact they ignore their own explanations, ones which are at the very heart of the plot, is lazy and/or ignorant writing.

It just shows that their understanding of time travel isn’t correct

 

[Alex321]

Any EastEnders character. The actors keep getting replaced. Has no one noticed?

Nope.

I'd have to watch it to notice that

 

[roley poley]

war documentaries when the good guys run in from the left and the bad guys run in from the right ...they often flip the film to keep that illusion and you will see an attacking army of left handers using left handed rifles on their left shoulder!!!