Bishop73

11th Dec 2022

General questions

In some movies/shows, a "bad guy" will visit someone in the hospital with the intent of killing them. One method is to smother them with a pillow until they die. Often their death is signified by us hearing the heart monitor beeping normally and then flatlining. But in reality, if someone was hooked up to hospital monitors, wouldn't other alarms go off as they struggle to breathe before they die? Wouldn't their heart-rate increase in the panic? Doesn't disconnecting monitors set off alarms?

Bishop73

Answer: Absolutely. If the person is awake whilst being smothered and hooked on to a monitoring machine, both heart rate and blood pressure will skyrocket whilst the smothering is taking place. This will send nurses rushing in. It's a common mistake in movies. Unplugging the devices will also indeed trigger alarms. Only thing you can do is turning the machine off properly (if possible without triggering anything) and do the deed before people come to check. If someone is in a coma though, the only alarm that might go off is the heart monitor when the heart stops. Then again, a coma patient usually is attached to a breathing apparatus. Detaching that also gives off alarms. Another far fetched solution is putting the devices on yourself before killing a patient. Or simply setting off a bomb or something.

lionhead

Answer: They could time it so no-one would be at the nurse's station, do it quickly before anyone arrives or have someone stand outside the door as look out. Also make it look like a natural causes.

10th Dec 2022

Smallville (2001)

Ageless - S4-E20

Trivia: When looking at Karen in the yearbook, the other person on the page is listed as Jacquie Gould. Gould is a Canadian director out of Vancouver, where a lot of the show was filmed. She's credited as first assistant director for one episode.

Bishop73

10th Dec 2022

Smallville (2001)

Spirit - S4-E18

Stupidity: When Lois, possessed by Dawn, comes downstairs and says she's going to the prom and Clark is taking her, Clark doesn't think for a moment it could be Dawn. He already knows Dawn can posses others, those people don't act like themselves, Dawn is obsessed with the prom, Lois isn't acting like herself, and Lois is now not only suddenly prom obsessed for no reason, but wants to go with Clark when she said that would never happen.

Bishop73

10th Dec 2022

Smallville (2001)

Spirit - S4-E18

Stupidity: After the accident, Dawn is in spirit form on the road trying to wave down an oncoming car (driven by Martha Kent). Dawn doesn't know she's a spirit that can pass through objects at that point. Since Martha can't see her, she keeps driving straight towards Dawn. Dawn sees the vehicle isn't slowing down and instead of simply stepping out of the way to avoid getting hit, she turns her back, revealing to the audience that objects can pass through her now.

Bishop73

10th Dec 2022

Smallville (2001)

Spirit - S4-E18

Trivia: When Dawn is looking through the yearbook, some of the names seen are people who worked on "Smallville." Mairzee Almas was one of the directors who would go on to direct Kreuk (Lana) in "Beauty and the Beast" and a few other DC shows. Assistant editor Anthony Ashley, assistant directors Jen Carpenter and Rob Duncan, costume designer Caroline Cranstoun, and location manager Michael Hauka. Many would also go on to work on other DC shows.

Bishop73

6th Dec 2022

Smallville (2001)

6th Dec 2022

Smallville (2001)

Gone - S4-E2

Trivia: The Daily Planet article about Lionel Luther being found guilty was reported by Perry White. When Perry was seen in season 3, he was a disgraced reporter, after Lionel got him fired, who worked as a tabloid reporter. He vowed to get sober and get his career on track at the end of the episode "Perry." He isn't physically seen again until the end of season 9.

Bishop73

6th Dec 2022

Smallville (2001)

Gone - S4-E2

Character mistake: When Chloe is rescued, and she sees Lois, she asks what's Lois is doing here. Lois says "putting the worst 2 months of my life behind me", indicating how long since Chloe supposedly died. But it had been three months at that point.

Bishop73

3rd Dec 2022

Smallville (2001)

3rd Dec 2022

Smallville (2001)

Delete - S3-E11

Continuity mistake: When Clark goes to Molly's and Lex is there, Lex asks if this is the disc Clark is looking for. Lex holds the disc up in one shot between his 1st and 2nd finger. In the next shot he's holding it between his thumb and 1st finger.

Bishop73

1st Dec 2022

Smallville (2001)

Asylum - S3-E9

Audio problem: When one of the Ian doubles is talking to Lex, the other double is kicking Clark, but we don't hear any of the kicks, even though we hear them in other shots.

Bishop73

1st Dec 2022

Smallville (2001)

Shattered - S3-E8

Continuity mistake: In the shot of Lana being stepped on by the horse, her right arm is out by her side and her hair is covered with the wood shavings lining the stall. In the next shot of her, her right arm is up so that her right hand is by her head and her hair isn't covered with the shavings. Her arm is back out by her side in the next shot when Clark arrives.

Bishop73

1st Dec 2022

Smallville (2001)

Shattered - S3-E8

Continuity mistake: When Lex and Clark go to where Lex saw Morgan and it's a bunch of people sewing, Lex grabs a man's hand and puts it on the table. On the table is a piece of fabric that the hands are on, but in the close up shot, there is no fabric. It's back in the next shot.

Bishop73

1st Dec 2022

Smallville (2001)

Relic - S3-E6

Other mistake: In the flashback to 1961, "Splendor in the Grass" is playing at the Talon. However, the film was released in October of 1961 and Louise McCallum was killed in June of 1961. So the flashback would be set before the film was released.

Bishop73

30th Nov 2022

Smallville (2001)

Perry - S3-E5

Continuity mistake: When Perry arrives at the Kent's, and they start talking, Clark has his hands in his pockets. After being asked it he's a report, Perry starts to walk around and the shot changes and Clark no longer has his hands in his pockets and is then seen putting them in them.

Bishop73

Continuity mistake: When Anna is first teaching Albert to shoot, and he says he's going to shoot a full load, he cocks the hammer back. In the next shot, the gun isn't cocked, and he cocks the hammer back again.

Bishop73

25th Nov 2022

The Batman (2004)

Topsy Turvy - S1-E10

Continuity mistake: When we see Alfred in the Batcave, he had 4 neat piles of playing cards and turns over an Ace. When Batman arrives, there's a shot of the cards, but the Ace is no longer turned over. When he makes the comment about seeing another playing card, the shot changes and there's now 5 piles but not in a neat pile.

Bishop73

25th Nov 2022

The Batman (2004)

Q & A - S1-E8

Character mistake: Artie says he'll recite pi to 100 decimal places. After the first few numbers, it skips to him finishing up by saying "46375." The last 5 digits would be "70679." In fact, the sequence "46375" doesn't occur until the 95,517th position.

Bishop73

25th Nov 2022

Smallville (2001)

Redux - S2-E6

Continuity mistake: The "Go Crows" sign Lana is working on changes depending on the camera angle. From the front you can see the! at the end. In the close up shot of the sign, the! is now gone. When Lana underlines "crows" it's back but the writing is slightly different.

Bishop73

25th Nov 2022

Smallville (2001)

Nocturne - S2-E5

Revealing mistake: When Lionel is playing the piano while talking to Lex, you see inside the piano and none of the dampers are moving for the notes he's playing, revealing he's not really playing or even hitting the keys.

Bishop73

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