Theory:Torchwood television discontinuity and plot holes/Rendition


 * Colorado state flag et al. While DC is ultimately under the control of Congress, it does have a limited municipal government (yes housed in the John A. Wilson Building). It may ave to be chalked up to lazy writing that the characters refer to it as "city hall". May, I've got little clue as to what term is commonly used in DC for the building in reference to governance, the mayor, or council. It would also be usefull to actually know how the building is decorated as it is not beyond reason that it may have representations, including flags, of the 50 states.


 * It's somewhat inaccurate, but not at all uncommon, to refer to the Wilson Building as "City Hall". Both locals (look up some of Marion Barry's old campaign speeches) and the national media do it all the time. Or, less inaccurately, some people refer to the function, rather than the building, as City Hall. For example, in 2001, Mayor Anthony Williams talked a lot about moving City Hall back to the Wilson Building (when the government was temporarily convening at One Judiciary Square during remodeling). I haven't seen it since the remodel, but in the late 90s (when DC government only took up about a third of the building, and various federal subagencies took up most of the rest), the lobby had a large Seal of the District in front of the flags of the 50 states.


 * That does bring into question two of the "Production errors" listed in the article.
 * Just because there is (or used to be?) a semicircle of state flags in the lobby of the building doesn't mean that there are also state flags randomly scattered around the building where you'd expect to see the District (or maybe US) flag instead, so that one really is a production error.
 * In fairness, I think it's reasonable to call it a production error unless the production staff made a conscious choice (given the real-world precedence) to imply that various state flags were indeed present in this building.
 * In fairness, I think it's reasonable to call it a production error unless the production staff made a conscious choice (given the real-world precedence) to imply that various state flags were indeed present in this building.