A Camera/Perspective Discrepancy in "Stranger Than Fan Fiction"

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In the episode "Stranger Than Fan Fiction" (S06E13), there's a scene when Daring Do, Rainbow Dash and Quibble Pants are in the Lost Temple of Chicomoztoc and come across a room with seven doors, one of which leads to the treasure. Below is a screenshot of the room from the perspective of the room's entrance, along with a rough diagram of the room. 

 

 

The first door that Quibble, Daring, and Rainbow walk up to and examine is the pegasus door on the right, as seen in the screenshot and diagram below. This is confirmed by the direction in which they walk from the entrance, the door next to the pegasus door they're examining, and the doors seen behind them when Daring is examining the door.

 

 

After Quibble says "not that one", Daring walks out of frame to the left (with Rainbow following her) from the perspective of the door. In other words, they should be walking toward the entrance of the room, as illustrated in the screenshot and diagram below.

 

 

However, when the camera changes to a perspective from the center of the room, we see Daring in front of the unicorn door to the left of the pegasus door she was just examining, and she's walking to the left, with Rainbow and Quibble coming in from out of frame to the right. As can be seen in the screenshot and diagram below, she's walking in the opposite direction than she was from the perspective of the pegasus door.

 

 

So what could explain this apparent discrepancy? I can think of a couple of possibilities. One is that it was an oversight when animating the scene - Daring (and Rainbow) should have gone out of frame to the right from the perspective of the pegasus door, rather than to the left. Another possibility is that the perspective change of the camera to the center of the room is actually a jump cut omitting some time in which the three of them actually did walk back toward the entrance before walking over to the left of the pegasus door. However, I don't see any other indication that the audience is to understand that some time was omitted - for example, there's no fade-out or obvious change in the background music.

 

What do you think? Do you agree that this is a discrepancy, and do you see any other possible explanation for it? Thanks for reading!

[Jeric 46,851]

This is actually fun. Can you ascertain the time they were in the room from the rate the other room was filling up with water? There should be able adequate frame of reference.

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Can you ascertain the time they were in the room from the rate the other room was filling up with water? There should be able adequate frame of reference.

 

That's an interesting idea, I hadn't thought of that! It's probably not possible to determine that, though; there's a scene transition in between Daring, Rainbow, and Quibble leaving the room filling up with quicksand and the three of them entering the room with seven doors, and we don't really know where they went in relation to the quicksand room or how much time was skipped in that transition.