Meaningless Details That Bug You

[AJBopp]

I love Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. But it took me out of the story to hear there's a "Vulcan proverb" that "Only Nixon could go to China," and Klingons quoting Shakespeare.

I love Star Wars, but right from the start, when I saw it at 17, I wondered how the director could not decide whether the primary supporting character's name was pronounced "Han" or "Hahn."

What are the little details in TV and movies that are like fingernails on a chalkboard to you?

[Kusanagi]

Probably annoys me the most in anime, but characters wearing the same damn clothes every day, it's just lazy.

Like I get it if it's a school uniform or something, but that's not the case in most shounen.

Props to One Piece for actually having characters at least change clothes every story arc.

[Powerboy]

Just saw Homecoming a few weeks ago and, talk about obsession with trivial details, it annoys me that when Adrian Toomes puts on the flight harness, all we see is the two shoulder pieces come down and then he's magically buckled in at the waist and upper legs and magically has the exo-skeleton on.

The Klingon proverb that tells us revenge is a dish best served cold still annoys me since it's a Japanese proverb and it would make far more sense that Khan would know about it as a Japanese proverb.

Also, in the first Star Wars (New Hope), I would swear that, at times, Obi-Wan is saying "Garth", not "Darth".

Edit: Just watched a youtube video of some Homecoming scenes and it's clear that the exo-skeleton extends from the wings and attaches to him. So now I'm annoyed that my DVD copy doesn't show the picture with the clarity that the youtube video does.

[AnakinFlair]

Something that bugged the crap out of me in Endgame was where did Rhodey get the Iron Patriot suit? He was drowning in the lower levels, his armor was destroyed, and the compound was blown to hell. It wasn't until someone one Reddit spotted the suit behind Ant-Man when he comes to in the rubble that I was able to rationalize in my mind that Scott used the shrinking disc to shrink the armor, grabbed it, and gave it to Rhodey when he saved them.

[DanMad1977]

That Harvey Dent was a black man in Batman The Movie and in Batman Forever a white man. I always saw Batman Forever as the third part, so a direct continuation of the Batman films.

[Osiris-Rex]

That Harvey Dent was a black man in Batman The Movie and in Batman Forever a white man. I always saw Batman Forever as the third part, so a direct continuation of the Batman films.

But you were fine with Val Kilmer being Batman instead of Michael Keaton?

[Kyer]

DC movie/tv universe: What is so wrong about having Barry Allen be a blue-eyed, blond Caucasian male? Even in the first Flash tv series they had a brunette. Second, same. Movie? Asian.
I know a lot of people think this sort of thing is minor, but it bugs me up the wazoo.

Old Flash Gordon movie series where there space ships shot out smoke that went up while engine sparks shot downward. Actually, most early space shows were rife with impossible moves. Also no big bang noises in space. Wings that barely move while in horizontal flight. I think I saw a cowboy film once where the idiot was walking around with spurs on.
God, there are so many things that can bug a person. Life is too short to list them all.

[ChrisIII]

Just saw Homecoming a few weeks ago and, talk about obsession with trivial details, it annoys me that when Adrian Toomes puts on the flight harness, all we see is the two shoulder pieces come down and then he's magically buckled in at the waist and upper legs and magically has the exo-skeleton on.

The Klingon proverb that tells us revenge is a dish best served cold still annoys me since it's a Japanese proverb and it would make far more sense that Khan would know about it as a Japanese proverb.

Also, in the first Star Wars (New Hope), I would swear that, at times, Obi-Wan is saying "Garth", not "Darth".

Edit: Just watched a youtube video of some Homecoming scenes and it's clear that the exo-skeleton extends from the wings and attaches to him. So now I'm annoyed that my DVD copy doesn't show the picture with the clarity that the youtube video does.

Yeah, Khan's exposure to the twenty-third century was pretty limited beyond the Enterprise, Ceti Alpha V, and Reliant. Although I guess maybe Kirk might've left him with some reading material about Klingons, as we do see he has a small library in the cargo bays, or read it when he was combing through Enterprise's or Reliant's computers.

[sunofdarkchild]

The 2 Klingons in Star Trek 6 studied Earth culture to better understand their enemies. Both the chancellor and the general came to deeply respect human culture because they read Shakespeare first instead of Twilight. The chancellor decided that he wanted to make peace with that culture while the general came to see them as worthy opponents and grew more excited to fight them. I liked the depiction of Klingons as seeking to understand and growing to appreciate the cultures of their opponents. It made them seem much more intelligent than the TNG-era Klingons who were mostly just dumb brutes.

It's the scene where Scotty finds the bloody uniforms and the crew find the bodies of the traitors that bother me. In both cases no one was even looking for them and just stumbled on to them. By far the worst part of the movie.

In Star Trek 2, I don't care that a planet just randomly exploded. It's sci-fi and Krypton did it decades earlier. What bothers me is that no one on the Reliant noticed that an entire planet was missing despite Starfleet having mapped out that system back when the Enterprise first encountered Khan. And apparently Starfleet also doesn't warn any ships going to that system on missions to stay away from the one planet with the genetic super-tyrant. Way to make the Federation seem like a bunch of nincompoops who can't do anything without Kirk.

Avengers Endgame: I get that it's a hype moment, but the time so say 'Avengers Assemble' is not AFTER everyone has already assembled.

[Tuck]

Dodgeball was on yesterday. And one of the teams is the Las Vegas Police Department. CSI has this too.

There is no such organization.

It's the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (and it is merged with the Sheriff's department). Also, everyone in Vegas calls them "Metro".

[Sutekh]

In Iron Man 3, Tony activates the 'blow up all my armors' protocol, while Rhodey is flying away with the President in his arms *wearing one of his suits.* Apparently Tony's AI is smart enough to have not blown that one up, too, but I would have chuckled a dark chuckle if we saw a distant explosion and Tony winced and said, "Oops..." (not just from killing the President and Rhodey, but also when he realizes that he's going to have to swim home, since he's now stuck on a burning oil rig, with no ride home, and possibly no more means to even call home to get a ride, since his earpiece alone might not have the signal range to reach Jarvis, on the mainland...)

In Big Hero 6, the various characters have just reached Fred's house, and are reacting to his trophy room full of monster costumes and superhero figures and fantasy artwork, and we hear first Wasabi react, and then a second voice off-screen that sounds just like Tadashi (who, spoiler, is not in this scene!) say "My brain hates my eyes for seeing this." The only other male in the room that could have spoken after Wasabi was Fred himself, who sounds nothing like Tadashi, and wouldn't make sense to be commenting *on his own decorations.* Bugs the crap out of me! (There's another bit where Gogo's voice comes from Honey Lemon, on the abandoned island, which makes me think that something changed in the artwork, and it was too late to get the voice actresses back.)