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Chapter Eight: The Battle of Starcourt - S3-E8

New this week Factual error: The value of Planck's constant used in the show, 6.62607004 is the value that was measured in 2014. The value that was in use in 1985 was 6.626176. The value was updated again in 2018, to 6.62607015.

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New this month Trivia: The car driven by Nick Fury and Maria Hill has license plate MTU83779. This is a reference to Marvel Team Up #83 from July, 1979 titled "Spider-Man and Nick Fury."

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New this month Trivia: Backstage at the charity fundraiser, a poster can be seen featuring Crusher Hogan. Crusher Hogan was the wrestler faced by a masked Peter Parker faced in Spider-Man's first appearance in Amazing Fantasy #15.

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Trivia: The number on Scott Lang's storage unit is 616. This is the same number used to refer to Earth Prime (the primary Earth 'continuity') in Marvel comics.

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Trivia: The show is based on a comic books series written by Gerard Way, who was the lead singer for the band My Chemical Romance.

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The Last Of The Starks - S8-E4

Continuity mistake: In this episode, Kings Landing is shown as sitting on flat, plain-like terrain. In previous seasons, it was shown surrounded by water and mountains covered lush greenery.

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Trivia: During the Steve Rogers support group scene, the bald man with glasses and goatee is none other than Jim Starlin, the comics writer and artist who created Thanos.

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Continuity mistake: When Russell and Wade are shown into their cell, Wade makes a wisecrack, gets tased and falls to the floor writhing in pain. Russell is looking down at him and then turns to look out of the cell. When the camera cuts to the wide shot, Wade is instantly on his cot, lying quietly on his back with his arms folded. (00:34:50)

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Continuity mistake: In "Wreck It Ralph", Mr. Litwak's name is Stan, but in this film, his name tag says Del Litwak.

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Factual error: Near the beginning of the film there is a warning sign that the "Tron" game has a virus. How does an arcade game get a virus?

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Trivia: Cambridge refused to allow filming rights on campus because they feared depictions of anti-Semitism. All of the Cambridge scenes were actually filmed at Hugh Hudson's alma mater Eton College.

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Trivia: During the opening sequence, as the camera moves through the corridors of the Nostromo, a Krups coffee grinder can be seen mounted to one of the walls. It happens to be the same model as the "Mr. Fusion" in Back to the Future.

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Trivia: Michelle Rodriguez has a cameo as Gelda, who is fighting along with Alita in her flashbacks, and Edward Norton has a cameo as Nova, Alita's main enemy on Zalem.

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Trivia: Singer Chris Isaak has a small cameo as the S.W.A.T. team commander.

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Trivia: Roger Corman has a cameo as FBI Director Hayden Burke, and his portrait can be seen in one of the shots of Clarice and Ardelia.

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Stupidity: Jo's dad builds a tornado shelter but uses a simple bathroom stall type lock for the door. How did he expect that to be strong enough?

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Trivia: Herman Wouk, the author of the source novel, has a cameo as the Archbishop of Siena.

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Trivia: The script for the entire series tops out at 962 pages, and contains 1785 scenes and 285 speaking parts. The total production involved more than 4,000 camera setups, and more than a million feet of exposed film were shot. The complete series was shot at over 404 different locations in Europe, California and Washington State over a 14 month shooting schedule.

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Factual error: In the shots of the Golden Gate Bridge with downtown San Francisco in the background, the Salesforce Tower is visible, but this building didn't even break ground until 2013.

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Question: This always kind of bugged me. Why would David think that Kirk murdered everyone left behind on Regula One? Even though they did not have a father/son relationship, surely the heroic exploits of James T. Kirk are well known? At one point, David even refers to him as an "overgrown Boy Scout." I've seen this movie a hundred times, but could there be something I'm missing?

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