I loved the story in these two episodes, however I live in New Mexico and I’ve been to TorC many times and I must say the representation of it was cringe-worthy. TorC isn’t a tiny town, it’s a city and the only parts that look like the part they showed in Zygon Invasion/Inversion are the older, lower income areas of town. Also…there are ZERO palm trees. Places in Mexico that have palm trees are close to water. TorC, New Mexico is hundreds of miles away from any Mexican cost. There were three things that appeared in the episodes that made me want to look away: the “No British” on the sign in Invasion was pretty aggravating because that culture never existed in New Mexico to begin with. But the Sheriff sign directly above the police seal was totally ignorant. In America, the Police department and Sheriff’s departments are totally different. They seldom share buildings, cars, uniforms, or funding. Police officers have jurisdiction over cities, Sheriff’s deputies have jurisdiction over the county territory outside of those city limits with a couple of exceptions. The final thing that made me want to smack Moffat was the Mexican flags all over the Zygon police officer/sheriff’s uniform. The only affiliations Mexico has had with New Mexico in the last 50 years are the percentage of Mexican nationals that call New Mexico home and the name “Mexico”. The dialect of Spanish spoken in New Mexico is almost as different from the dialect spoken in Mexico as the Mexican Spanish dialect is from the dialect spoken IN Spain. The architecture is different, the art is different, the food is different, the music is different, the people look different, and the culture is vastly different. The Mexican flag isn’t part of any police symbol anywhere in New Mexico. That’s like setting something in Dublin and making all of the Police wear an English flag on their uniforms except New Mexico has been separate from Mexico for over a century. These errors didn’t ruin the episode from me while I was watching it, but they’re so glaring and they seem to pay no respect to the setting of their story so now it’s all my friends and I are talking about.
