Last night I attempted to recreate my first viewing of NoDS as closely as I could. Though, of course, it wasn't particularly closely because not only wasn't I in a car, I was sitting on a couch in my living room with my feet up on a cushy ottoman, my mom and friend weren't with me, and I wasn't surrounded by a bunch of other people in cars. But I microwaved a bag of popcorn and put together a hot dog in a toasted bun, both of which were my snack of choice that night. And precisely at 10pm I popped my Blu-ray copy of NoDS into the Blu-ray player and pressed "play." And those weren't even all the things that couldn't be duplicated because I didn't have a copy of the R-rated version of the film. But hey, I did my best.
I hadn't actually watched the film in years, so it was definitely fun to watch it, especially so because it was the first time I'd watched it on a 60in TV. And one would think that having seen the film so many times there couldn't possibly be anything that I would notice that I'm not sure if I ever noticed before - but one would be wrong in that assumption. For quite possibly the first time I noticed that rain is running down the tower room windows in the scene in which Angelique and Charles make out and Gabriel and Strack come to get her.
Of course, timewise it should have been raining because the scene takes place soon after the scene in the Gallery in which Sarah watches Strack, Laura and Gabriel plot and Carlotta's voiceover specifically points out how it's raining. But, well, this is DS, which isn't well known for its continuity, especially considering that in the timeline of events of that day the tower scene takes place after the Gallery scene but it shows up in the film before the Gallery scene. Quite obviously whoever they hired to handle continuity for the film was much better than anyone who might have worked on the daytime show!
And we may never know for sure, but I might have honestly noticed the rain because it was the first time I'd watched the film on a 4K TV and not on a dinky old-fashioned TV with a typical screen size...