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Elementary: Our Time Is Up (2018)
Blooper/mistake
About 8 minutes in Sherlock and Watson are talking in a hallway and a forensic technician is approaching them from the back.just a second later as they are still talking the forensic tech has disappeared
The Blacklist: Alexander Kirk (No. 14) (2016)
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I was totally rejecting the idea that Tom Keane could be Susan Hargraves missing son but a quick check on biography showed that she is 20 years older than he is in real life so she could be his mother.
I was also very disappointed to see that the villain that Tom Keane shot in the drugstore wasn't dead his body is missing when the police arrived. after all the bad stuff that guy has done any realistic person would have put a bullet through his head not shot him in the stomach. Plots where the villain just keeps getting away over and over again are really annoying. a few episodes ago they had him in custody, but neither Tom Keane nor the FBI man would shoot him.
Columbo: Columbo Goes to College (1990)
Some technical bugs or quibbbles, and a gimmick reused from old series
the idea that they could aim a gun that was underneath the hood of their truck accurately enough to shoot and kill with one shot the professor who was moving around his car is the biggest hole in this plot. It has to be a fatal wound, they have to time the shot when he's exactly in front of the gun, using the small TV screen on that portable TV that looked to be 2 or 3 inches square.
This was 1990 tech, not what we have today.
Also, they seemed to say that the signal was captured and recorded by someone with a rooftop antenna, the signal from a commercial TV station would be much stronger than their portable camera, or if it was a satellite type dish, it would use totally different frequency.
The gimmick of Columbo getting the killer to plant evidence at the wrong location( the wrong car in this episode) was used in another episode, "A Friend indeed".
The police commissioner, played by Richard Kiley, is tricked into planting evidence in what he thinks is the apartment of the suspect. But the apartment is really one rented by Columbo and a phony address was shown to the commissioner.
Z Nation: Zombie Road (2015)
The heroes couldn't seem to hit anything in this episode
Just started watching a few episodes ago, liked the acting. But when faced with either zombies or human raiders, they seemed to do a lot of "stupid shooting". Almost like old A-team TV show shooting where people blast away and can't hit anything.
In previous episodes my recollection is that they were pretty good shots.
The old geezer couldn't hit the zombie on the hood of the car, even though his(zombie) head was right up against the windshield, etc. Too many examples to list.
Why shoot at zombies chasing your moving vehicle, wastes ammo, wait till they're point blank.
Banacek (1972)
Many or most solutions are totally implausible
Have only seen five repeats on MeTV, since originals from the 70's. So many of the plots use the same gimmicks, like it wasn't really there, etc. The 3 ton statue was really a balloon mold, and nobody notices that it would have swung around from the crane if it had no weight? The missing medical computer Max was just a false front, nobody noticed that during it's construction there were no deliveries of heavy boxes with actual equipment? The jewel encrusted carriage missing from the cargo container, all those people on the dock wouldn't see that the real container was still sitting there when they lifted the false outer shell up from the dock and onto the ship?! Just because the big truck blocked the view from the ship, those guys on the dock could see it, and when the truck left, there's that container there on the dock where there should be an empty spot. And they wouldn't have noticed the walls of the container were much thicker, in fact it was double walled.
The only semi decent one was the 10 kings coin heist, they drugged the owner and moved him to a fake copy of the hotel room, so he'd enter the combination to the safe into the fake copy safe.
Batman and Robin (1949)
Was released as one long movie in late 50's approx
I saw this at the neighborhood movie house, as one continuous movie, but since I was probably about 10 years old, 1960 or so?, they must have edited it down from the 260 minutes listed here. Couldn't have sat for 4+ hours.
Typical of these serials, each chapter ended with the one or more of the heroes being "killed" in some clearly inescapable crash, explosion , cave-in, etc. But in the next chapter, the sequence of events was altered just enough to let them escape from the danger.
They probably counted on folks seeing these chapters a week apart, so they wouldn't notice the switcheroo.
"Batman" had some reasonably clever gadgets, for a 1949 movie.
Check out William Fawcett actor on Wikipedia, the actor who played Professor Hammil, if you're my age you will recognize him as a character actor who appeared in many movies and TV shows