Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 8:43 pm Post subject: Re: Various episodes and online comic: Where does Hiro work
bugmuncher wrote:
The first nit I posted was before there was a nitpick thread. It's about the spelling of the place where Hiro works.
I thought I noticed two different spellings (Yamagato, Yamagoto) in various places online, and a bunch of third-party places seem to think he works for Yamagoto, but the only known reference to Yamagoto on NBC's site is the Graphic Novel for episode 2, which has Yamagoto on Hiro's ID card. It was found by Protagonist. (yay!)
Anyway, I'm linking it from here so that all of the nitpicks will be in one thread.
In Hiro's Myspace blogs (http://www.myspace.com/hironakamura) -- at least the ones before the last two (as of today) -- each entry is followed by the statement, "Auto-Translated by: Yamagato Software".
But, in his "About Me" section under "Hiro's Companies", it says, "Yamagoto Industries, Tokyo JP Programmer" (and in parentheses, "Quit...").
Of course, it also says that he's 7' 6" and makes less than $30,000/yr.
Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 6:10 am Post subject: Re: Various episodes and online comic: Where does Hiro work
birq wrote:
In Hiro's Myspace blogs (http://www.myspace.com/hironakamura) -- at least the ones before the last two (as of today) -- each entry is followed by the statement, "Auto-Translated by: Yamagato Software".
But, in his "About Me" section under "Hiro's Companies", it says, "Yamagoto Industries, Tokyo JP Programmer" (and in parentheses, "Quit...").
Of course, it also says that he's 7' 6" and makes less than $30,000/yr.
Nice catch. But... are we sure this is really Hiro's myspace page? Clair and Zach have pages that were linked from NBC.com... Perhaps NBC is maintaining a myspace page in addition to Hiro's blog, but until they link to it from NBC I am not sure we can say NBC made the page.
Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 6:38 am Post subject: Episode 10 "Six Months Ago" Eden's Boogie
When Matt pulls Eden over and she looks up and removes her sunglasses, she has a big boogie in her left nostril. I'm serious. Seems fitting for the nitpick thread.
Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 8:31 am Post subject: Re: Episode 10 "Six Months Ago" Eden's Boogie
SuperHiro wrote:
When Matt pulls Eden over and she looks up and removes her sunglasses, she has a big boogie in her left nostril. I'm serious. Seems fitting for the nitpick thread.
I think that was the intentional result of Ginny Weasley's Bat-Bogey Hex and shouldn't it be in the NOSEpick thread?
Hello all, I'm new, but love to nitpick now and again. So here goes.
When Pete and Sylar take the swan dive, why was Pete swimming in a pool of his own blood. He had physical contact with Sylar, so he should have been protected by which ever power allowed Sylar to limp away.
The FBI chick is explaining that she is the only one pursuing the Sylar connection, and that the Bureau isn't considering the crimes linked because of the seeming randomness of the victims.
I'm not familiar with FBI procedure, but I highly doubt it is standard operating procedure to ignore similar M.O.s in crime scenes simply because an aspect of that M.O. isn't consistently carried out.
In Episode 7, "Nothing to Hide" Matt it telling his wife, Janice, that there's something they need to talk about and he hears her think:
"I thought I'd been so careful..oh god, he knows."
But in the beginning of Episode 8, "Seven Minutes to Midnight" when they are recapping the previous episodes, Janice thinks:
"I thought I'd been so careful...oh god, he knows about the affair."
Uinku wrote:
Mohinder and Peter didn't recognise eachother when they met for the second time at Mohinder's apartment (the first time was in the cab).
This is one that really gets me. Yeah, they both had a lot of stuff happen to them between the taxi and when they meet again in the apartment. But really, they didn't have your average taxi conversation, they talked about some pretty meaty stuff. In the taxi, Peter even asks Mohinder his name, so you would think that one of them would have made the connection.
The Janice quote is part of a larger nitpick in that things said at the end of episodes don't seem to line up exactly with recaps of those events at the beginning of the next.
Take for example Claire's awakening on the autopsy table. At the end of Episode 3, she clearly says "Holy sh--!". At the beginning of Episode 4, she doesn't say it.
See also Future Hiro's appearance at the end of Episode 4, and the beginning of his scene in Episode 5. The comment about the scar is phrased differently.
But as that's more of a continuity nitpick than a research nitpick, it seems to be a bit off-topic for this thread.
Sorry if it's off-topic, but thanks for the other dialogue expamples, I knew there were some but couldn't remember them. Is there a general continuity thread or is it done on a per-episode basis?
Dont you all think that if your wife cheated on you with your best friend you would be alot more pissed of trhan matt was i mean come on anybody else think he under reacted
He is pissed, but keep in mind that he has a whole new world of issues to deal with, so he HAS to put his marriage issues on hold. He has to deal with who he is now, hunt down a murderer, and deal with a failing marriage. We all deal with stress differently, and seems to just put the problem aside, while we handles the issues in front of him.
Dont you all think that if your wife cheated on you with your best friend you would be alot more pissed of trhan matt was i mean come on anybody else think he under reacted
Perhaps. But Matt's reaction does not mean the writers erred.
I had intended for this thread to be about mistakes in production or fact. Because any number of reactions are possible to a cheating spouse, the writers did not make a factual mistake.
plutoniumboss wrote:
The FBI chick is explaining that she is the only one pursuing the Sylar connection, and that the Bureau isn't considering the crimes linked because of the seeming randomness of the victims.
I'm not familiar with FBI procedure, but I highly doubt it is standard operating procedure to ignore similar M.O.s in crime scenes simply because an aspect of that M.O. isn't consistently carried out.
The FBI is a gigantic, un-nimble organization; it's plausible that they could bungle a series of murder investigations without considering them linked. You're probably right that the FBI should have considered them linked. But the FBI's treatment of the Sylar murder scenes so unlikely as to be incorrect? (Phrased another way, does the FBI never make mistakes in real life?)
vashaunt wrote:
Question When Pete and Sylar take the swan dive, why was Pete swimming in a pool of his own blood. He had physical contact with Sylar, so he should have been protected by which ever power allowed Sylar to limp away.
Question Sylar can fly, why did he fall wish Pete?
I don't think we know enough about how Peter's powers work to say conclusively whether either of these occurences are erroneous. Until his powers are explained in detail and quantified somewhere (such as Mohinder studying him and telling him he retains x number of powers for y duration and at z percentage... etc. etc. Until we know these things we can't say whether this was a mistake. (and unless development of the strength of a power is also ruled out, a revelation of these facts at a later point in the show also won't rule out the possibility that he had not developed his power to a point where he could stop blood.
We also don't know how Peter's powers interacted with Sylar's (if at all) or whether Sylar has to concentrate to fly, etc. etc.
Sorry to be a meanie. I am looking for things that can be proven to be mistakes of fact, or obvious production errors. Keep hunting. I have a good one to post soon.
Something Nathan and Peter's mother said in Episode 2 (while Peter was in the hospital recovering from jumping off a 15-story building) struck me as being a little off - she said that their father had had major depressive disorder, and it starts with delusions of grandeur which become suicidal impulses.
I checked on WebMD, Mayo Clinic, and NIMH websites. This is not a description of major depressive disorder. This description matches closest to bipolar disorder - large mood swings from mania to depression. The "delusions of grandeur" are associated with mania, not depression. Nothing like "delusions of grandeur" is mentioned as a symptom of the other types of depression - delusions of absolute worthlessness are more characteristic of depression.
Bipolar disorder is classified as a mood disorder, along with several varieties of depression, so maybe some people could interpret an overlap. There is also some overlap because depression can come and go, and if it comes and goes frequently enough, whoever makes the diagnosis has to decide if the spells in between are mania or within a normal range. Or I suppose we could say that Nathan and Peter's mother may not have had a good understanding of the diagnosis.
When Pete and Sylar take the swan dive, why was Pete swimming in a pool of his own blood. He had physical contact with Sylar, so he should have been protected by which ever power allowed Sylar to limp away.
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