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Out of Gas blooper

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Thursday, February 12, 2004 4:28 PM

SHINY


Extremely nit-picky one: In Bushwhacked, when Zoe says "Ship powered down on its own" there's no static-y clicking sound of the suit communicators turning on and off before and after she speaks, although the sound is present in all of her other lines while suited.

RIVER
Purple elephants are flying.
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Thursday, February 12, 2004 4:35 PM

AERRIN


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Originally posted by WhooDahn:
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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?



Yeah, actually, it does - or more specifically, it looks like someone who has naturally curly hair and has 'helped' it along to make the curls more perfect. I have a friend who has lovely, amazing curls naturally, and then she finishes it off by spiraling with a curling iron, to make them look neater. Hot rollers do the same thing for my own (curly) hair - take it from a messy curl to something like what Inara's looks like.

And both of us can wear it straight as Inara's was. So I think it'd /quite/ possible to have that change in looks naturally. It just takes a bit of patience with a straightening iron and the right hair products.

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Thursday, February 12, 2004 5:18 PM

WILDHEAVENFARM


Actually, it's called excelsior. It's wood shavings. I use them as a decorative packing material in my busines. You're totally right, btw, just had to stick in my goat-herding professionalism.

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Originally posted by 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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Thursday, February 12, 2004 6:37 PM

CUDA


I think Wash was implying that Serenity wasn't a small ship, and could be spotted eventually.

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Thursday, February 12, 2004 9:45 PM

FLYINFREE


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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."

Objects in Space was supposed to be BEFORE Trash, The Message & Heart of Gold. Joss, for his own reasons, wanted it moved to the end and even refilmed one scene to try to make it fit, but all the references to River in the 4 episodes are completely out of whack if OiS is put last and since the refilmed scene OiS doesn't fit anywhere now. I LOVE Firefly but what Joss did with OiS bugs the shit out of me!

"...we're still flyin'."
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Friday, February 13, 2004 5:42 AM

COSMICCONCUBINE


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

I think Kaythryn is right. Alan Tudyk points out this same blooper on the commentary but when you watch that scene Jayne is checking out the crate that held Tracey's coffin and it's filled with hay.

"Sir, I think you have a problem with your brain being missing."

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Friday, February 13, 2004 7:25 AM

OKKAY


Quote:

Originally posted by FlyinFree:
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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."

Objects in Space was supposed to be BEFORE Trash, The Message & Heart of Gold. Joss, for his own reasons, wanted it moved to the end and even refilmed one scene to try to make it fit, but all the references to River in the 4 episodes are completely out of whack if OiS is put last and since the refilmed scene OiS doesn't fit anywhere now. I LOVE Firefly but what Joss did with OiS bugs the shit out of me!

"...we're still flyin'."
"That's not much."
"It's enough." Malcolm Reynolds and Simon Tam - Serenity



Actually, from what I understand, OiS was supposed to air 14th, after HoG. However, Fox decided to air OiS before HoG was shown, which meant Joss had to reshoot the scene where Mal and Inara are talking about her leaving. The DVDs were done in the order originally intended.

Speaking of bloopers, a couple I noticed:

In Trash, when Wash is doing his "WHAT'S SHE DOING ON THIS SHIP?!" thing, you can see Kaylee/Jewel start cracking up. Probably wasn't done on purpose.

The other one is in Out of Gas, with the ship-wide "Life Support Failure" warning being repeated in Cantonese, rather than Mandarin. Unless Serenity was built and meant to be used in an area which was predominantly Cantonese, this wouldn't make sense.

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Friday, February 13, 2004 8:45 AM

SHINY


Quote:

Originally posted by Okkay:
Speaking of bloopers, a couple I noticed:

In Trash, when Wash is doing his "WHAT'S SHE DOING ON THIS SHIP?!" thing, you can see Kaylee/Jewel start cracking up. Probably wasn't done on purpose.



Although it's possible it was on purpose, because remember they are all trying to 'play' Saffron and as Inara said at the end, not all of the crew's performances were that great. I thought both Alan Tudyk and Jewel Staite were trying to over-do it a little in that scene since Wash and Kaylee aren't supposed to be that great at the subterfuge thing.

RIVER
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MAL
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Friday, February 13, 2004 4:09 PM

SAINT JAYNE


Quote:

Originally posted by Okkay:
In Trash, when Wash is doing his "WHAT'S SHE DOING ON THIS SHIP?!" thing, you can see Kaylee/Jewel start cracking up. Probably wasn't done on purpose.


"Probably wasn't done on purpose" is hardly a blooper. Actors "act", which means adding to the script when they feel it is necessary. The director left it in, so it's not a mistake.
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The other one is in Out of Gas, with the ship-wide "Life Support Failure" warning being repeated in Cantonese, rather than Mandarin. Unless Serenity was built and meant to be used in an area which was predominantly Cantonese, this wouldn't make sense.

What's wrong with Cantonese? Even if other messages on the ship were in Mandarin, I wouldn't call it a blooper. Different parts of the ship manufactured by different companies.

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Friday, February 27, 2004 4:40 PM

SHINY


I just re-watched Heart of Gold and if you look carefully, as Burgess is backing out of the door with the baby and turns to point his laser gun towards the approaching Nandi, you can see he's holding a doll instead of a real baby (although there's a real baby before and after)...maybe it had to be re-shot and the/a baby wasn't available?

RIVER
Purple elephants are flying.
MAL
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Friday, February 27, 2004 5:56 PM

NEROLI


Quote:

Originally posted by Shiny:
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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.



Actually, since he DOES say "you mean she really reads minds" one could assume the "mind reading genius" comment he made in "The Message" was meant as a joke on Jayne's part and he was surprised his joking comment was actually true.

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Friday, February 27, 2004 11:50 PM

CHRONOS


I noticed in Safe, when Mal is trying to sell the cows and the buyer complains they haven't been fed properly, Mal says he'd been feeding them milk and hay three times a day. Well I don't think you feed milk to cows. Should say water. If they drank milk, you could just link some tubes from their udders to the mouth.

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Monday, March 1, 2004 2:14 AM

IAMJACKSUSERNAME

Well, I'm all right. - Mal


On my taped copy of Ariel (stil waiting for DVD region 2) the spanner Mal uses to whack Jayne dissapears as he's hitting him. Looks like they forgot, or didn't have time, to cgi it in. Is this mentioned in the commentaries?

Also, I recently saw Lost in translation with several visible booms. If filmmakers don't have a cgi budget, can't they just edit the shot - maybe cut off the top end and slightly stretch it, or shift the whole visible area down?

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Monday, March 1, 2004 4:49 AM

TALLGUY


Quote:

Originally posted by IamJacksUsername:
Also, I recently saw Lost in translation with several visible booms. If filmmakers don't have a cgi budget, can't they just edit the shot - maybe cut off the top end and slightly stretch it, or shift the whole visible area down?



Actually, the problem would not have been with the film, but with your projectionist. There is a lot more information that is caught on a film than is intended to be seen. When a film is projected it's intended to be "framed" in such a way so you only see as much as the filmmaker intended. Just as if you were watching a film where the projectionist framed the film too tightly and cut of folk's heads.

Roger Ebert harps on this fairly regularly.

Bill
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"You ain't all that funny."

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Monday, March 1, 2004 5:51 AM

IAMJACKSUSERNAME

Well, I'm all right. - Mal


Quote:

Originally posted by TallGuy:
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several visible booms



Actually, the problem would not have been with the film, but with your projectionist.



Why include something in the reels that shouldn't be displayed, and might be?
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Monday, March 1, 2004 6:14 AM

XENARC


Quote:

Originally posted by Chronos:
I noticed in Safe, Should say water. If they drank milk, you could just link some tubes from their udders to the mouth.



I didn't take that as a blooper, just as Mal being a salemen/smartass. I think it was intentional in the script.

XenArc

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Tuesday, March 16, 2004 1:09 AM

KALIMEERI


Anybody notice the car (I think) driving left to right across the very back of the screen in War Stories, when Jayne and Book and Zoe notice the burn pattern?

Jen dao mei.

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Tuesday, March 16, 2004 3:10 AM

BROWNCOAT1

May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.


Quote:

Originally posted by kalimeeri:
Anybody notice the car (I think) driving left to right across the very back of the screen in War Stories, when Jayne and Book and Zoe notice the burn pattern?

Jen dao mei.



I had not noticed in car in that scene, but I will go home this evening & watch the episode to see if I can catch it.

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Tuesday, March 16, 2004 6:03 AM

KOZURE


Quote:

Originally posted by Chronos:
I noticed in Safe, when Mal is trying to sell the cows and the buyer complains they haven't been fed properly, Mal says he'd been feeding them milk and hay three times a day. Well I don't think you feed milk to cows. Should say water. If they drank milk, you could just link some tubes from their udders to the mouth.

Take me out to the black, tell them I ain't coming back



As Xenarc mentions, this appears to be part of the salespitch. I think it's a smart-alex reference to "milk-fed veal" which is supposedly more tender and valuable... some cattle are actually milk-fed. Of course, these animals are neither veal calves nor would they actually be milk-fed, but the mental image of beautiful women handfeeding hay and milk to cows makes them sound like they've been very well treated.

I think this is Mal's tongue in cheek response to the accusation that the animals haven't been well fed. "Crap talk" as he puts it, in Mandarin.

Mal's just bantering in the time-honoured tradition of haggling.

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Tuesday, March 16, 2004 6:08 AM

DECKROID


Um... about the hay in Jayne's hat...

The hat is first covered with shipping 'hay' from the box his Ma used as filler. The second time we see Jayne's hat covered with shipping 'hay' is when he is breaking down the crate, also filled with shipping 'hay'. If you notice, he is tearing the wood to tiny pieces and they shipping 'hay' is all about him.

I know this to be true because I have watched this episode many, many times. Of course, I could be wrong.

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Tuesday, March 16, 2004 7:37 AM

BLINKER


Quote:

Anybody notice the car (I think) driving left to right across the very back of the screen in War Stories, when Jayne and Book and Zoe notice the burn pattern?


Wow, nice catch there.

Shortly after Zoe says 'they weren't after the goods,' look for a long shot of all three of them walking through the desert. To the left of the screen, there's a highway visible in the distance - one car going left, another going right.

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Tuesday, March 16, 2004 8:02 AM

SHINY


Quote:

Originally posted by DeckRoid:
Um... about the hay in Jayne's hat...

The hat is first covered with shipping 'hay' from the box his Ma used as filler. The second time we see Jayne's hat covered with shipping 'hay' is when he is breaking down the crate, also filled with shipping 'hay'. If you notice, he is tearing the wood to tiny pieces and they shipping 'hay' is all about him.

I know this to be true because I have watched this episode many, many times. Of course, I could be wrong.



If you listen to the commentary for 'The Message', Alan Tudyk points out the exact scenes where it doesn't make sense that the hay disappears and then re-appears while Jayne's in the infirmary...

RIVER
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Tuesday, March 16, 2004 12:47 PM

OCELOTWREAK


I saw that as well, but I figured it was not the true mule locomotion but instead an extra bit help to steady the mule and stop it at an exact spot, so that it was properly framed for the camera shot.

Interestingly, it only is visible in the bottom right hand corner when playing the DVD on my PowerBook. if I play the DVD on my TV, then that blooper in the corner is not visible (probably my cheap TV screen).

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Tuesday, March 16, 2004 7:52 PM

THECRAZYIVAN


good spots...lol

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Tuesday, March 16, 2004 8:14 PM

ZORIAH


One that noone seems to have spotted:

In The Train Job there is a muslim lady in a burkha on the train. In the scene where everyone has to get off, you can see the veiled woman now carrying a baby in the background while Zoe and Mal are in the foreground.

Watch her, a jeep passes by her quite slowly and she doesn't notice and walks right into it, baby's head first !

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Wednesday, March 17, 2004 4:39 AM

BROWNCOAT1

May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.


Quote:

Originally posted by Zoriah:
One that noone seems to have spotted:

In The Train Job there is a muslim lady in a burkha on the train. In the scene where everyone has to get off, you can see the veiled woman now carrying a baby in the background while Zoe and Mal are in the foreground.

Watch her, a jeep passes by her quite slowly and she doesn't notice and walks right into it, baby's head first !



I totally missed the lady walking into the jeep. I will have to try to catch that next time I watch Train Job.

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Wednesday, March 17, 2004 6:20 AM

SPLIBERTARIAN


One detail I've appreciated is how the tear in the left arm of Mal's coat is mended. (We see it get torn when he gets grazed during the shootout with Patience in Serenity)

There are, however, two instances where the mend is there when it shouldn't be: the flashback scene in Out of Gas, and the scene in Serenity where Mal and Zoe discuss shooting the passengers "politely" if they get too nosy (a scene which Joss describes as a "reshoot" in the commentary).

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Wednesday, March 17, 2004 8:45 AM

SAMURAIX47


If you play a dvd on your pc or laptop the player will display the whole digital picture on your screen. When playing a dvd on your television the edges will get cut off by the edge of your screen because the video picture on a TV is overscanned.

For an example... if you take a 640x480 pixel picture and display it in NTSC video format on a television... 5% of the outer edge of the picture will extend past the edge of the visible TV screen. Take the same 640x480 picture and display it on a computer screen and you'll see the whole thing. Computer screens are underscan. TV is overscan. There are parts of the NTSC video signal that are visible at the top that would be distracting so TV manufacturers frame in the picture tube screen to hide that part of the picture. This has been going on for many decades.

But now with the advent of digital projection, LCD, Plasma, and DLP televisions they can digitally cut off that top edge and present just the intended visible picture.

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I saw that as well, but I figured it was not the true mule locomotion but instead an extra bit help to steady the mule and stop it at an exact spot, so that it was properly framed for the camera shot.

Interestingly, it only is visible in the bottom right hand corner when playing the DVD on my PowerBook. if I play the DVD on my TV, then that blooper in the corner is not visible (probably my cheap TV screen).




Jaymes

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Wednesday, March 17, 2004 8:54 AM

ITSALLSHINY


Here's the biggest blooper of them all -- in OoG, where Mal makes his way to the infirmary and shoots himself in the heart with adrenaline -- in real life, this would have put him very quickly first into cardiac fibrillation and then into cardiac arrest and the show would have ended right there! "You're dead, Mal..."

Yeah, yeah, I know, it isn't ER, but Joss really screwed up on this one, especially since he had Gina shot up beforehand specifically to set up for Mal doing that to himself.

Kids, don't try this at home...


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Wednesday, March 17, 2004 8:50 PM

ZORIAH


Wasn't this Tim Minear's screw up *wink* - I think he wrote and directed OoG. Still, it seems a big gaff doesn't it? I've seen it done on people whose hearts have stopped beating in movies but don't recall anyone stabbing their own heart with adrenaline. I do remember Aeryn's mother on Farscape taking an adrenaline drug/shot but it certainly wasn't direct to the heart like what Mal did.

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Thursday, March 18, 2004 5:30 AM

ITSALLSHINY


Tim did write it. As co-Executive Producers both Tim and Joss are culpable and clueless to what an addrenaline shot to the heart would do to a man.

Silly boys -- looking for excitement...

Don't get me wrong -- I love OoG (my favorite episode). Perfect flashback within flashback technique, plenty of memorable lines, wonderful crew interaction, terrific story -- all shiny. It's just that the whole scene was so unnecessary to carry the story and I really had to consciously 'suspend disbelief' to get back into the episode.

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Thursday, March 18, 2004 6:34 PM

GUNRUNNER


I've found a blooper. In Serenity when they are braking in to the hold of the deralict you can see the stuff "Sticky" uses to "boil" the door lock before its been applyed.

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Sunday, March 21, 2004 7:35 PM

DELIA


Here's another, that I noticed rewatching Shindig this weekend. At one point, while Mal and Inara are dancing, you can see Morena's microphone slip out of the back of her dress at the waist.

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Sunday, March 21, 2004 7:44 PM

GWENDYDD


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.




Ah, ah, ah, Heart of Gold takes place before The Message. It would makes sense for her to have curly hair in Heart of Gold, because it chronologically comes before The Message.

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Sunday, March 21, 2004 8:56 PM

PEACE


Originally posted by Tallguy:

Quote:

Actually, the problem would not have been with the film, but with your projectionist. There is a lot more information that is caught on a film than is intended to be seen. When a film is projected it's intended to be "framed" in such a way so you only see as much as the filmmaker intended. Just as if you were watching a film where the projectionist framed the film too tightly and cut of folk's heads.

Roger Ebert harps on this fairly regularly.



I saw this once, years ago, at a showing of "Time Bandits". In one sequence you could see the mike on its boom, first pointing to one character, then another, as they spoke. It went on so long that the audience began to shout for the projectionist to put down his doobie and fix it.

Since it was in Santa Cruz, CA, it's quite possible they were right....



Oh, bugger! Now I have to wait for someone to wake up!

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Sunday, March 21, 2004 9:15 PM

ANGELDOVE


OK, I'm not sure if this has been commented on yet, or even if I saw it correctly (I loaned out my DVD's and am still awaiting their return anxiously) In Ariel, when Jayne gets shot by the Alliance, was he handcuffed before he was shot, then not when he hit the ground. I remember that bothering me the last time I watched though I didn't go back and check to see if I saw it correctly.

I only fell is all.

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Monday, March 22, 2004 1:56 AM

KALIMEERI


Got to go back and look at that myself. They were in the process of handcuffing him, but it may be that he broke away before they finished; i.e., only one hand. Things go by so fast sometimes you miss them, like in the next sequence I was thinking "no, he was handcuffed in back, and now his hands are in front.." but then there was that quick little shot of him scooting his feet through. Hats off to Jayne for that one, couldn't have been easy for somebody that big and muscular..LOL

Jen dao mei.

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Monday, March 22, 2004 8:04 AM

SOUNDHACK


I thought it was that too at first. But there's another problem. If the debris was 'blown out' of the cargo bay, wouldnt it still be moving outwards with respect to Serenity? It couldnt all of a sudden stop with respect to the ship, since there is no friction or any force stopping it.




Quote:

Originally posted by 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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Monday, March 22, 2004 8:49 AM

THRAWN


Quote:

Originally posted by soundhack:
I thought it was that too at first. But there's another problem. If the debris was 'blown out' of the cargo bay, wouldnt it still be moving outwards with respect to Serenity? It couldnt all of a sudden stop with respect to the ship, since there is no friction or any force stopping it.




Quote:

Originally posted by 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




And another problem - we see later in the episode that, just before Mal falls down to the floor of the cargo bay, the other ship is still there. The episode opens with a shot of Serenity with nothing anywhere nearby. The two exterior shots should take place at exactly the same moment in time, but they're very different.

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Monday, March 22, 2004 9:14 AM

JAHZARA


Quote:

Originally posted by 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."



Oh, I'm so there with you. I love that line, but it just irritates me to no end how fake the stabbing looks. Ugh!

And also...
In Heart of Gold, the shot when the girl who's betrayed Nandi lets Rance in, there is a HUGE TRUCK or TRAILER thing behind him. The first time I saw it I could not believe it. It's really hard to see 'cause it's really fast. I had to slow it down to see a glimpse of what it was.

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Monday, April 5, 2004 2:26 PM

SHINY


Quote:

Originally posted by Thrawn:
And another problem - we see later in the episode that, just before Mal falls down to the floor of the cargo bay, the other ship is still there. The episode opens with a shot of Serenity with nothing anywhere nearby. The two exterior shots should take place at exactly the same moment in time, but they're very different.



Yes, but with all the cutting back and forth between time-frames, I suppose this could be easily explained away by claiming the first shot was actually just prior to the second ship arriving, and then when they cut into the interior of the cargo bay to see Mal collapse, it's actually a few hours later...

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Monday, April 5, 2004 2:27 PM

SHINY


Incidentally, I've tried to archive all of the mentioned bloopers on the browncoats.com site here:

http://www.browncoats.com/main.php?parent=405a8603e9a13&line=3e546f888
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Please let me know if I've missed anything or mis-attributed anything, or if you've come across any other interesting bloopers/easter eggs.

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Tuesday, April 6, 2004 4:23 AM

DARKARCHON


I more noticed the stationary 'lamp' that looked like set lighting than the cords but, on the same page.

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Tuesday, April 6, 2004 5:07 AM

CYBERSNARK


Quote:

Originally posted by Jahzara:
In Heart of Gold, the shot when the girl who's betrayed Nandi lets Rance in, there is a HUGE TRUCK or TRAILER thing behind him. The first time I saw it I could not believe it. It's really hard to see 'cause it's really fast. I had to slow it down to see a glimpse of what it was.



I spotted that the first time I saw it, and figured it was just some kinda peripheral to the house (y'know, like a backup generator or comm gear, or supply storehouse or something).

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Saturday, September 29, 2007 8:12 AM

PMAN


In The Train Job you can see a camera man to the right of the screen when Wash runs down one of Niska's men on the Mule as he is going down the door/ramp of Serenity.

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Sunday, September 30, 2007 10:22 PM

BULLET0IN0THE0BRAINPAN0SQUISH


Quote:

Originally posted by 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."



i thought Atherton was being poked. Won't that be incredibly annoying? Hehe.



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Monday, October 1, 2007 2:15 AM

MRBEN


Can believe no-one's mentioned this yet:

In Ariel in all the shots of the ambulance, you can see a set of wheels underneath the left-hand "landing gear" partially draped in black cloth. Looking closely, you can see the set under the other gear have been fully draped.

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