Out of Gas blooper by TallGuy

Is there a list of bloopers yet?
Wash flys without a yoke,
Inara flys with her yoke upside down,
Moving cables in OoG.

Has anyone spotted any more?

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Tuesday, December 16, 2003 9:41 AM

WYDRAZ

The Message

Jayne's hat first has hay in it, later it seems he's cleaned it up, but some hay reappears again in one scene while he's in the cargo bay.

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Tuesday, December 16, 2003 10:00 AM

In the commentary for The Message, Alan mentions a continuity error after he stole 'the big red button' from the set when he thought they were done and later they had to re-shoot some of the bridge scenes...but I couldn't find it.

RIVER
Purple elephants are flying.
MAL
Good. Thanks for the update.

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Tuesday, December 16, 2003 10:49 AM

HJERMSTED

Out of Gas:

Birthday cake scene... candle #5 is lit and then unlit and then lit.

mattro

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Tuesday, December 16, 2003 11:03 AM

DDAY82799

Don't know if anyone wants to start a new thread for this, but in "War Stories" after Zoe comes and gets Wash back and they cut off Mal's left ear. They show Zoe and Wash walking out of the room, then back to Mal. In that screen his right ear is cut off, not his left ear.

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Tuesday, December 16, 2003 11:29 AM

In the commentary for the Message, they talk about Inara finally getting straight hair. In Heart of Gold, she has curly hair.

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Tuesday, December 16, 2003 11:59 AM

KAYTHRYN

Ah!! You saw that too! I thought I was going crazy the first time I saw that.

Also, in The Message,

Select to view spoiler:

even though the blasts are shaking Serenity around and almost knocking everyone on their butts, Wash’s dinos never fall off the console.

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle

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Tuesday, December 16, 2003 12:02 PM

ASTRIANA

Quote:
Originally posted by WhooDahn:
In the commentary for the Message, they talk about Inara finally getting straight hair. In Heart of Gold, she has curly hair.

Personally, I think I prefer Inara's hair curly and parted down the middle...

~A~

...I'm still free,
You can't take the sky from me.

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Tuesday, December 16, 2003 12:04 PM

KAYTHRYN

Quote:
Posted by Wydraz:
Jayne's hat first has hay in it, later it seems he's cleaned it up, but some hay reappears again in one scene while he's in the cargo bay.

I always thought that was because he was rolling around in the hay filled box that Tracey was delivered in.

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle

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Tuesday, December 16, 2003 1:49 PM

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Originally posted by WhooDahn:
In the commentary for the Message, they talk about Inara finally getting straight hair. In Heart of Gold, she has curly hair.

Why is that a blooper? Couldn't she have curled it in between the two?

RIVER
Purple elephants are flying.
MAL
Good. Thanks for the update.

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Tuesday, December 16, 2003 2:05 PM

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Why is that a blooper? Couldn't she have curled it in between the two?

She could have curled it but in the 'Message' commentary they mention that she finally had her hair straightened. Does it look like naturally curly hair in HoG and OiS?

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Tuesday, December 16, 2003 2:06 PM

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Why is that a blooper? Couldn't she have curled it in between the two?

She could have curled it but in the 'Message' commentary they mention that she finally had her hair straightened. Does it look like naturally curly hair in HoG and OiS?

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Tuesday, December 16, 2003 6:25 PM

Here's a good one I hadn't noticed or heard about before: watch Serenity and go to where Wash is driving the Mule out of the ship at the Eavestown Docks. Watch the front grille of the mule to see how the thing is *really* powered...

RIVER
Purple elephants are flying.
MAL
Good. Thanks for the update.

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Tuesday, December 16, 2003 6:35 PM

BEBE

One little inconsistancy that I noticed was during the commentary for "Shindig" the costumer lady (I'm to lazy to look up her name right now) stated that Zoe necklace signified her bond to Wash and that she never took it off. Well, in the flashbacks in "Out of Gas" she is wearing the necklace even though she has yet to meet Wash, or is just meeting him for the first time. She also takes it off when she is nekkid in the bed with Wash, so she does take it off, which contradicts the costume lady.

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Friday, December 19, 2003 1:40 AM

JESSICALATA

The first time I watched The Message, I noticed another hat blooper. When Jayne first takes his hat off when they're all around the coffin in the ship, there's a shot following that one of someone (Mal, I believe), with Jayne to the side of him, with his hat firmly on his head.

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Friday, December 19, 2003 1:41 AM

JESSICALATA

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Friday, December 19, 2003 3:17 AM

Another blooper (unrelated to OoG) is at the beginning of "Our Mrs Reynolds"... when Mal says farewell to the Elder, boards the ship, and closes the ramp, notice that there are several bushes near Serenity, not to mention a few colonists... notice that when the ship takes off, they are in the middle of a massive desert, with nary a bush or a colonist to be seen... of course, considering the pressure that the effects folks are under to produce movie quality FX on a TV budget, the glitch is pretty minor...

"Just remember... all success is illusion: what has really been accomplished is the displacement of an area of specific failure to somewhere else... or is it the other way around?"

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Friday, December 19, 2003 3:17 AM

Oops... "error page glitch"... sorry

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Friday, December 19, 2003 3:18 AM

And again... "error page glitch"... sorry

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Friday, December 19, 2003 3:18 AM

Once more... "error page glitch"... sorry

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Friday, December 19, 2003 6:37 AM

KERNELM

One thing I noticed a couple of times is the size of Serenity seems too large, notably in the teaser in TTJ (in the far shot), though I haven't analyzed that one too closely. The one I really noticed though was in "The Message" when the police ship is parked next to Serenity. Serenity seems to completely dwarf the police ship, like that ship would have only taken up half the cargo bay, and it definitely seemed larger than that before. Plus Wash seemed to imply that the police ship was larger than Serenity when Mal asks why they couldn't just come down and look for them. Has this struck anybody else? I really like all the effects work in general, but this just seemed weird.

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Sunday, December 21, 2003 11:11 PM

Here's a glitch: look carefully at the opening sequence of Out of Gas, watch the stars near serenity -- especially to the lower left. You will notice that some of the stars move with serenity, while others are stationary -- looks like a sloppy cut and paste job. ;)

RIVER
Purple elephants are flying.
MAL
Good. Thanks for the update.

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Sunday, December 21, 2003 11:31 PM

NOOCYTE

Actually, that stuff is not stars, but bits of debris which were blown out of the cargo bay when Mal snuffed the fire. Since Serenity had stopped accellerating, it was still moving with the ship. So, this is pretty much the opposite of a blooper; a subtle bit of continuity which shows admirable (though, as we've seen not infallible) attention to detail.

Department of Redundancy Department

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Saturday, January 24, 2004 11:37 AM

SAINT JAYNE

I just saw this: In Jaynestown they land Serenity near the mud pits and there is no one there. After they get out and walk over to the mud pits, there are suddenly dozens of people.

The best part is, Serenity is gone! I think Zoe must have taken off with it.

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Saturday, January 24, 2004 1:00 PM

VETERAN

Don't squat with your spurs on.

Quote:
in "War Stories" after Zoe comes and gets Wash back and they cut off Mal's left ear. They show Zoe and Wash walking out of the room, then back to Mal. In that screen his right ear is cut off, not his left ear.

I think you're fooled by the camera angle, it's his left ear all the time.

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Saturday, January 24, 2004 1:52 PM

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Originally posted by Veteran:

Quote:
in "War Stories" after Zoe comes and gets Wash back and they cut off Mal's left ear. They show Zoe and Wash walking out of the room, then back to Mal. In that screen his right ear is cut off, not his left ear.

I think you're fooled by the camera angle, it's his left ear all the time.

Actually, I think there is one shot where the whole image is reversed accidentally (the buttons on Mal's shirt are on the wrong side too)

RIVER
Purple elephants are flying.
MAL
Good. Thanks for the update.

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Saturday, January 24, 2004 2:24 PM

DRAGONWINE

That's not a blooper. Wash just knew he was gonna fly some rough atmo so he got himself some dino toys with magnets in the little feet. I mean who wants to pick up all those toys every time they go for a landing?

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Saturday, January 24, 2004 6:06 PM

STATIC

Hey, Shiny. . .your 'purple elephants' line. . .where does that one come from?

"Wash. . .we got some local color happening. A grand entrance would not go amiss."

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Saturday, January 24, 2004 6:32 PM

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Originally posted by Static:
Hey, Shiny. . .your 'purple elephants' line. . .where does that one come from?

http://www.fireflyfans.net/feature.asp?f=45

RIVER
Purple elephants are flying.
MAL
Good. Thanks for the update.

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Saturday, January 24, 2004 6:45 PM

PUMAMANREDUX

Quote:
Originally posted by WhooDahn:
Quote:
Why is that a blooper? Couldn't she have curled it in between the two?

She could have curled it but in the 'Message' commentary they mention that she finally had her hair straightened. Does it look like naturally curly hair in HoG and OiS?

When were all the episodes filmed ? Check the finish date ... this might shed light on the problem at hand ... not to mention shows in some cases were originally shown out of order ...

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out. (Alfred Hitchcock)

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Saturday, January 24, 2004 7:24 PM

JRC

In the pilot, when the Reavers come back to the planet looking for Serenity, check the size of Serenity compared to the Reaver ship. Sometimes the Reaver ship looks huge, then in other scenes, both ships look not so different.

Talk peace but, carry a BIG stick.

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Tuesday, January 27, 2004 7:20 PM

LOADANDMAKEREADY

Quote:
Originally posted by WhooDahn:
Is there a list of bloopers yet?
Wash flys without a yoke,
Inara flys with her yoke upside down,
Moving cables in OoG.

Has anyone spotted any more?

In Bushwacked, when Jayne is telling Simon to get suited up and come along, he loads his Smith & Wesson revolver, and holsters it. Said revolver has a C-More(TM) electronic dot sight mounted on top.

Later, on the ship which has been attacked by Reavers, he is holding a completely different revolver. It appears to be a kluged up Colt 1860-type cap and ball revolver -- no top strap over the cylinder. It also appears to have a fast draw-type hammer ... and no C-More sight.

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Wednesday, January 28, 2004 2:06 AM

DIGITALOUTBREAK

Shindig = Inara switches from Atherton's right arm to his left arm in between takes.

Serenity = (Hard one to explain) When preforming the crazy Ivan, the thruster on the side of serenity flips backward, however IIRC its the port (left thrustrer, this would make Serenity spin counter clockwise, yet in the next shot, the port thruster is strait ahead and the starboard thruster is backward.

Large continuity error in alot of episodes = Every time the two side engines are on/glowing while the ship is in space. They are turboprop-hybrids of some sort and cant operate unless they are surrounded by atmo/oxygen, like Jaynes gun.

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Wednesday, January 28, 2004 2:39 AM

CALHOUN

Yeah, with regards "the ear" blooper, I just checked and there is definitely 1 scene - just as Niska's henchman first attaches the special torture tool to Mal's chest. This scene does indeed appear to be inverted. Why would they do that?

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Wednesday, January 28, 2004 5:30 AM

SAINT JAYNE

Quote:
Originally posted by digitaloutbreak:
Large continuity error in alot of episodes = Every time the two side engines are on/glowing while the ship is in space. They are turboprop-hybrids of some sort and cant operate unless they are surrounded by atmo/oxygen, like Jaynes gun.

Instead of the engines being wrong, perhaps you simply do not understand all that they are capable of.

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Wednesday, January 28, 2004 7:06 PM

VETERAN

Don't squat with your spurs on.

I'll take a look. Do you think it's somehow a mirror image, like the frame was attached backward or something? I don't see how they could do the makeup wrong unless the scene was shot two different days.

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Wednesday, January 28, 2004 8:38 PM

Yes, there was a mirror-image on one shot in War stories for some reason...I was far more annoyed by the inverting of the crazy ivan engine flipping CGI shots (turned the normal way first, then turned around backwards second!)

RIVER
Purple elephants are flying.
MAL
Good. Thanks for the update.

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Wednesday, January 28, 2004 8:46 PM

ALFERDPACKER

I don't have my DVDs handy so I can't check.

Does Jayne say something about River being a "mind reading genius" in The Message? It was my understanding that Jayne didn't find out about River unti OiS.

I think the line is "Girl's a mind reading genius but she can't figure out how to eat an ice planet."

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Thursday, January 29, 2004 3:24 AM

CIARA

about the backwards Mal scene:

I assumed it was a design choice--oftetimes the scenes won't flow properly, they want one scene to be from THIS angle---the next to be from THAT angle--to give some variety..Joss is huge about changing around the camera angles. Maybe it was just an aesthetic thing.

Just a humble supplicant in service to all things Joss

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Thursday, January 29, 2004 3:45 AM

THALOS

In Jaynsetown, when Simon is acting as the buyer the foreman mudder slaps him on the back and leaves a muddy handprint there. However, when we see the group from behind walking up to Jayne's statue we see that the muddy hand print is gone.

Also, IMHO, Jayne calling River a "genius mind reader" in "The Message" is reasonable since it is common knowledge that she is a genius and even Jayne has figured out by now that she is intuative.

"Whoa, good Bible."

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Thursday, January 29, 2004 12:30 PM

SPIKESPIEGEL

Not exactly a blooper, but laughable:

Before the DVDs came out, one of my fave, most-remembered scenes was Shindig, Mal just stabbing Atherton for the sheer malice of it. But watching it on DVD a couple times, I eventually noticed that where they show Mal stabbing him ... two or three times ... it's SO obvious the blade isn't even breaking the fabric of Atherton's clothing. I don't need to see a lot of blood in my TV (though I HATE when people get stabbed/slashed and the blade comes out totally clean), but if you're gonna do a closeup of someone getting stabbed, rig the freakin' effect right ...

(or would this be the third time I've posted today and turned out to have remembered wrongly?)

"Bang."

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Thursday, January 29, 2004 12:32 PM

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Originally posted by Thalos:
Also, IMHO, Jayne calling River a "genius mind reader" in "The Message" is reasonable since it is common knowledge that she is a genius and even Jayne has figured out by now that she is intuative.

The the blooper is in "Objects in Space" when Jayne appears so surprised "you mean she really reads minds?!?! I don't like the idea of people knowin' what I'm thinking!"

RIVER
Purple elephants are flying.
MAL
Good. Thanks for the update.

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Thursday, January 29, 2004 4:20 PM

LYRALYON

I'm not sure if this counts as a full on blooper, but... in The Train Job, right at the end when Simon is stitching up Mal's shoulder. Mal lets out a little yell and if you watch Sean's face closely you can see him start to laugh, then kind of clear his throught to cover it up. Kind of a cute little moment.

Facts compel me to conclude that my brain was never formed for much thinking.-Charles Darwin

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Thursday, January 29, 2004 4:35 PM

DIGITALOUTBREAK

Quote:
Originally posted by Saint Jayne:
Quote:
Originally posted by digitaloutbreak:
Large continuity error in alot of episodes = Every time the two side engines are on/glowing while the ship is in space. They are turboprop-hybrids of some sort and cant operate unless they are surrounded by atmo/oxygen, like Jaynes gun.

Instead of the engines being wrong, perhaps you simply do not understand all that they are capable of.

Normaly I am very cautious about jumping to conclusions like this, however there would be no need to have fans on the front of the engines if they did not need an atmosphere to operate in. Also, I believe that in one of the comentaries, as Serenity leaves the atmo Joss says the engines stop because they don't work in space, I'm gonna watch the commentaries for serenity/train job now and I'll let you know if its in those two. Im not a nit picky person I just think its intresting :)

[::EDIT::] In serenity on the second to last chapter, When Serenity leaves atmo the engines choke and cut out, and Joss says, and the engines turn/go (sorry not quite sure) because its space.

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Thursday, January 29, 2004 6:15 PM