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Post by Whovitt on Sept 9, 2019 11:20:59 GMT
Just for fun, what's you're favourite visual continuity error in Doctor Who?  I'm not talking about the likes of the UNIT dating conundrum or plot holes, I mean stuff like the moving hand on Sutekh's chair as he rises from it kind of thing (if you don't believe me, go back and watch episode 4, it's there!). One of my favourites is in School Reunion - in every scene up to shooting at the Krillitanes, K9 is missing one of his side panels (specifically the one with 'K9' emblazoned across it); however, when he trundles into the gym, he mysteriously has that panel restored!  |
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Post by number13 on Sept 9, 2019 11:39:09 GMT
I tend not to notice them (famously unobservant and I must have missed The Hand of Sutekh's Friend well into double figures before someone told me ) but here's a little one from last night:
In 'Planet of the Daleks' ep 3, the Daleks are anxiously watching the needle on the 'icecano' pressure gauge turning towards the red zone, when the whole gauge starts to rotate on the wall. I imagine there's a deleted scene in which the Spirodon who fixed it up there for them is exterminated...
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2019 11:52:48 GMT
The two guards going straight into the wall for The Pirate Planet. There's something extremely satisfying about them hitting it so hard that the wall wobbles.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2019 19:33:31 GMT
I always chuckled at the idea that Sutekh would have a comfy cushion to make eternity less numbing...
Episode 4 of the Chase - 'Journey into Terror' was an episode I always liked and found atmospheric. Watching for the first time in 1993, the presence of one of the Daleks clearly on set behind the iron gate i advance of their arrival to the time-zone was a bit stagey though. It kind of flagged up that it was just a bit of frivolity.
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Post by Whovitt on Sept 10, 2019 6:02:23 GMT
Unfortunately for David Tennant, he doesn't have the most symmetrical face, so whenever they flip an image with him in it it becomes really obvious. A good example of this is The Satan Pit - during his conversations with The Beast there are easily half a dozen shots that have been flipped for absolutely no reason. If you can't see it in his face, just look at he direction of his fringe change from facing left to facing right  Another bad example of flipping is at the very start of Evolution of the Daleks. As a Dalek approaches him, there's a very brief shot of the Doctor looking at it. The production team probably thought it was so brief you would miss it, but it doesn't help that the pillar behind the Doctor's right shoulder is suddenly behind him on the left in the flipped shot  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2019 11:17:45 GMT
not a mistake per se but always smile when I see Androzani pad technology was lovingly reminiscent of c1984 Grundig TV remote control unit. It's always great to see how prop designers take mundane objects and turn them into futuristic sci-fi tech. Kitbashing at its finest. I think the Varos guns were made from pieces of a garden hose. |
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Post by shutupbanks on Sept 10, 2019 13:49:42 GMT
Which marines went aboard the TARDIS in Earthshock?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2019 15:09:13 GMT
not a mistake per se but always smile when I see Androzani pad technology was lovingly reminiscent of c1984 Grundig TV remote control unit. That's a very polite way of saying that it was a all a bit cheapo! The same way the twins in the next story were seen using desktop scramble/pac-man games. All very futuristic, the same way cathode ray monitors are apparently going to be oh-so retro in the far future. Stick a bit of black-wiring tape over the logo and tv channel labels and its good to go. |
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Post by Hieronymus on Sept 10, 2019 16:08:24 GMT
My favourite visual problem is when the side of the Pandorica wobbles in one scene. Wobbly sets are not just for classic serials.
The only noticeable continuity error I can recall offhand is from Warrior's Gate. One of the ship's crew is knocked unconscious, but moments later, in the very next scene, is walking along with the rest of the crew as if nothing had happened.
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Post by doctorkernow on Sept 11, 2019 16:47:38 GMT
Hello again.
My first experience of a DVD commentary was Earthshock. In it I think it was Mr Davison cheerfully pointed out that a member of the crew could be spotted at the edge of the shot thinking they were out of sight...
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Post by Whovitt on Sept 12, 2019 4:57:45 GMT
My favourite visual problem is when the side of the Pandorica wobbles in one scene. Wobbly sets are not just for classic serials.
The only noticeable continuity error I can recall offhand is from Warrior's Gate. One of the ship's crew is knocked unconscious, but moments later, in the very next scene, is walking along with the rest of the crew as if nothing had happened.
There's another obvious one in Warrior's Gate - Adric has to take off one of K9's ears so he can navigate in the white space. From that point on in the story, the number of ears K9 has seems to change every scene I've been working my way through the New Series recently and noticing lots of little mistakes. The chain around the Dalek's manipulator arm restraining Dalek Sec seems to come and go frequently between camera changes. A boom mic is visible obscuring the "Police Public Call Box" sign in the final scene of The Lazarus Experiment. During the wide shot of Sally and Larry being tossed about inside the TARDIS in Blink, there's a blue/green studio light visible in the top left-hand area of the screen. When the Doctor and Donna leave Caecilius and his family on the hill at the end of The Fires of Pompeii, they enter the TARDIS from one angle, yet the doors are facing a different direction when we see the family from behind. |
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Post by Hieronymus on Sept 12, 2019 16:54:05 GMT
I've been working my way through the New Series recently and noticing lots of little mistakes. The chain around the Dalek's manipulator arm restraining Dalek Sec seems to come and go frequently between camera changes. A boom mic is visible obscuring the "Police Public Call Box" sign in the final scene of The Lazarus Experiment. During the wide shot of Sally and Larry being tossed about inside the TARDIS in Blink, there's a blue/green studio light visible in the top left-hand area of the screen. When the Doctor and Donna leave Caecilius and his family on the hill at the end of The Fires of Pompeii, they enter the TARDIS from one angle, yet the doors are facing a different direction when we see the family from behind. Whatever the mistakes in Who, nothing tops the enormous production gaffe I caught on the DVD release of Battlestar Galactica. I don't recall the episode title, but Starbuck and Boomer are fighting in the museum where the arrow is kept. In one shot, a camera crew is visible behind the fight. Not at the edge of view, or in the distance, but RIGHT THERE just feet away and fully visible. I don't know whether there was a mistake in the production of the DVD or if this error appeared in the aired version as well, but it tops any mistake in a Who production. |
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I'm not talking about the likes of the UNIT dating conundrum or plot holes, I mean stuff like the moving hand on Sutekh's chair as he rises from it kind of thing (if you don't believe me, go back and watch episode 4, it's there!).
