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* RockBeatsLaser: The "security staff" of the Ministry mentioned by Martí is apparently composed by the historic Army of Flanders, or alternatively, rugged guys with daggers and arquebuses who are perfectly able to overpower a platoon of 1940's Nazis.

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* RockBeatsLaser: The "security staff" of the Ministry mentioned by Martí is apparently composed by the historic Army of Flanders, or alternatively, rugged guys with daggers and arquebuses who are perfectly able to overpower a platoon of 1940's 1940s Nazis.



** Somewhat happens with Lola's allies. Most are HeelFaceTurn to her because of their greed and cowardice.

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** Somewhat happens with Lola's allies. Most are HeelFaceTurn to on her because of their greed and cowardice.
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* It is 2015. [[TheMedic Julián Martínez]] is a Madrid paramedic that has become a bit of a DeathSeeker ever since his wife died in a hit and run, and, as such, barely any of his partners want to work with him. During a call to a fire, he enters the building against orders and sees two people dressed in centuries old garb, but the roof comes down on him before he can get out. No one believes him when he reports on what he saw, as there was no one else in the building, and he loses his job.

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* It is 2015. [[TheMedic Julián Martínez]] is a Madrid paramedic that has become a bit of a DeathSeeker ever since his wife died in a hit and run, and, as such, barely any of his partners want to work with him. During a call to a fire, he enters the building against orders and sees two people dressed in centuries old centuries-old garb, but the roof comes down on him before he can get out. No one believes him when he reports on what he saw, as there was no one else in the building, and he loses his job.

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* ArtisticLicenseHistory:
** Cardinal Cisneros appears next to Queen Isabel in 1491, a blatant anachronism (which was officially acknowledged by TVE) because Cisneros was not in the Castilian Court until one year later, and was not made Cardinal until 1507, long after Isabel's death. Also, while the actor is the same that played Cisneros in the series ''Isabel'' (Eusebio Poncela), he is characterized to look way older, closer to what he looked like in the sequel ''Carlos, Rey Emperador'', which is set 12 to 24 years later depending on the episode. It's likely that Poncela shot his scene between takes of the second series and they didn't bother to change the makeup used.
** Amelia claims the Muslim conquerors of Hispania weren't invaders and that Christians lived in harmony with them except in counted occasions. While it's true that a lot has been written to exaggerate the magnitude of the conquest from both sides, the state of life for Christians under their rule cannot be comfortably called "harmony", if anything because, as subjects of a Muslim rule, they were charged with extra taxations and pressures that didn't even disappear even if they converted to Islam (this was a complicated topic, as even Muslims weren't all treated equal, and it often marked an important difference whether they were ethnically Arabs, Berbers or Spaniards).
** UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition was actually less harsh than depicted here. Only unrepentant defendants would in fact be sentenced to death, an issue that never even comes up at the trial shown, but which would be the key one for real Inquisition tribunals. Torquemada himself, despite his reputation, was not as AxCrazy as portrayed here, and would have definitely ''never'' dared to ignore an edict from the Pope or the Queen as shown here, especially not for the sake of sending a random accused to the stake.
** Episode 6's time door is in a confession booth... even though confession booths had not been invented yet in 1520.
** The tag at the beginning of Episode 9 identifies the location of El Cid as "Valencia, year 1079". However, El Cid did not go east until the following year, and arrived in the Valencia region for the first time around 1087.
** Episode 12 has Pacino going undercover as a priest and being horrified when he realizes that he has to say mass and he has no idea about how it is done. [[HilarityEnsues He manages in the end]], but nobody finds strange the fact that he says mass in Spanish even though Catholic mass was still said in Latin in 1808.
** In line with the previous, although arguably weirder, Constanza and Don Fadrique's wedding in 1212 begins in Latin, but switches to Spanish later on. We probably can attribute this to TranslationConvention, though.
** The Loarre castle crew speaks Spanish in the 11th century, when Aragonese would be appropriate.
** The episode set in the Conquest of America has one of the Spanish captains screaming racial slurs against the natives, calling his soldiers to "exterminate those beasts" and stating that "they are not people, only animals", without it being portrayed as anything unusual. It goes hopefully without saying that there was no such system of beliefs behind the historical Conquest of America, or else the constant inter-marriage between Spaniards and natives would have meant the kingdom of Castille was populated by zoophiles. Even if natives were abused as in any conquest, those weren't considered racially inferior to Spaniards, nor there was any ideological reason to do so, here were even black Africans among the conquistadores).
** Gonzalo Guerrero is portrayed as having the longer end of the stick in the moral debate against the Spanish conquest of America, presenting the Maya civilization as peaceful and honorable in contrast to the Spaniards and especially the Inquisition. This comparison is especially funny because, considering the Mayans practiced human sacrifice from ancient times (not as much as Aztecs, but still), any number of executions attributed to the Spanish Inquisition would give nowhere near as many deaths as those achieved by the Mayans. Guerrero himself was one of the few survivors of this custom, a detail that is glossed over in the series.
** In the episode featuring Phillip II, Alonso laments that he misses the former's times, where the king supposedly "ruled over everything". This is not quite so; the king at the time was still subjected to the authority of the ''fueros'', which not even he could violate. An example is that of the Antonio Pérez del Hierro, a political enemy to Phillip II that managed to save himself from prison and execution by resorting to the ''Fueros de Aragón''.
** It's also odd that Phillip II is portrayed as racist, dismissing the American natives as savages, when in real life he was quite the opposite; he specifically wrote a royal order that the crimes against natives should be investigated with ''more'' care that those against other Spaniards.

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* ArtisticLicenseHistory:
** Cardinal Cisneros appears next to Queen Isabel in 1491, a blatant anachronism (which was officially acknowledged by TVE) because Cisneros was not in the Castilian Court until one year later, and was not made Cardinal until 1507, long after Isabel's death. Also, while the actor is the same that played Cisneros in the series ''Isabel'' (Eusebio Poncela), he is characterized to look way older, closer to what he looked like in the sequel ''Carlos, Rey Emperador'', which is set 12 to 24 years later depending on the episode. It's likely that Poncela shot his scene between takes of the second series and they didn't bother to change the makeup used.
** Amelia claims the Muslim conquerors of Hispania weren't invaders and that Christians lived in harmony with them except in counted occasions. While it's true that a lot has been written to exaggerate the magnitude of the conquest from both sides, the state of life
ArtisticLicenseHistory: Enough for Christians under their rule cannot be comfortably called "harmony", if anything because, as subjects of a Muslim rule, they were charged with extra taxations and pressures that didn't even disappear even if they converted to Islam (this was a complicated topic, as even Muslims weren't all treated equal, and it often marked an important difference whether they were ethnically Arabs, Berbers or Spaniards).
** UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition was actually less harsh than depicted here. Only unrepentant defendants would in fact be sentenced to death, an issue that never even comes up at the trial shown, but which would be the key one for real Inquisition tribunals. Torquemada himself, despite his reputation, was not as AxCrazy as portrayed here, and would have definitely ''never'' dared to ignore an edict from the Pope or the Queen as shown here, especially not for the sake of sending a random accused to the stake.
** Episode 6's time door is in a confession booth... even though confession booths had not been invented yet in 1520.
** The tag at the beginning of Episode 9 identifies the location of El Cid as "Valencia, year 1079". However, El Cid did not go east until the following year, and arrived in the Valencia region for the first time around 1087.
** Episode 12 has Pacino going undercover as a priest and being horrified when he realizes that he has to say mass and he has no idea about how it is done. [[HilarityEnsues He manages in the end]], but nobody finds strange the fact that he says mass in Spanish even though Catholic mass was still said in Latin in 1808.
** In line with the previous, although arguably weirder, Constanza and Don Fadrique's wedding in 1212 begins in Latin, but switches to Spanish later on. We probably can attribute this to TranslationConvention, though.
** The Loarre castle crew speaks Spanish in the 11th century, when Aragonese would be appropriate.
** The episode set in the Conquest of America has one of the Spanish captains screaming racial slurs against the natives, calling his soldiers to "exterminate those beasts" and stating that "they are not people, only animals", without it being portrayed as anything unusual. It goes hopefully without saying that there was no such system of beliefs behind the historical Conquest of America, or else the constant inter-marriage between Spaniards and natives would have meant the kingdom of Castille was populated by zoophiles. Even if natives were abused as in any conquest, those weren't considered racially inferior to Spaniards, nor there was any ideological reason to do so, here were even black Africans among the conquistadores).
** Gonzalo Guerrero is portrayed as having the longer end of the stick in the moral debate against the Spanish conquest of America, presenting the Maya civilization as peaceful and honorable in contrast to the Spaniards and especially the Inquisition. This comparison is especially funny because, considering the Mayans practiced human sacrifice from ancient times (not as much as Aztecs, but still), any number of executions attributed to the Spanish Inquisition would give nowhere near as many deaths as those achieved by the Mayans. Guerrero himself was one of the few survivors of this custom, a detail that is glossed over in the series.
** In the episode featuring Phillip II, Alonso laments that he misses the former's times, where the king supposedly "ruled over everything". This is not quite so; the king at the time was still subjected to the authority of the ''fueros'', which not even he could violate. An example is that of the Antonio Pérez del Hierro, a political enemy to Phillip II that managed to save himself from prison and execution by resorting to the ''Fueros de Aragón''.
** It's also odd that Phillip II is portrayed as racist, dismissing the American natives as savages, when in real life he was quite the opposite; he specifically wrote a royal order that the crimes against natives should be investigated with ''more'' care that those against other Spaniards.
[[ArtisticLicenseHistory/TheMinistryOfTime its own article]].

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** Amelia claims the Muslim conquerors of Hispania weren't invaders and that Christians lived in harmony with them except in counted occasions. While it's true that a lot has been written to exaggerate the magnitude of the conquest from both sides, the state of life for Christians under their rule cannot be comfortably called "harmony", if anything because, as subjects of a Muslim rule, they were charged with extra taxations and pressures that didn't even disappear even if they converted to Islam (this was a complicated topic, as even Muslims weren't all treated equal, and it often marked an important difference whether they were ethnically Arabs, Berbers or Spaniards).



** The episode set in the Conquest of America has one of the Spanish captains screaming racial slurs against the natives, calling his soldiers to "exterminate those beasts" and stating that "they are not people, only animals", without it being portrayed as anything unusual. It goes hopefully without saying that there was no such system of beliefs behind the historical Conquest of America, or else the constant inter-marriage between Spaniards and natives would have meant the kingdom of Castille was populated by zoophiles.
* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: InUniverse, in episode 13, when Susana Torres argues that they could cure Irene's flu with antibiotics, the doctor has to point out that antibiotics do nothing on viruses.

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** The episode set in the Conquest of America has one of the Spanish captains screaming racial slurs against the natives, calling his soldiers to "exterminate those beasts" and stating that "they are not people, only animals", without it being portrayed as anything unusual. It goes hopefully without saying that there was no such system of beliefs behind the historical Conquest of America, or else the constant inter-marriage between Spaniards and natives would have meant the kingdom of Castille was populated by zoophiles.
* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: InUniverse,
zoophiles. Even if natives were abused as in any conquest, those weren't considered racially inferior to Spaniards, nor there was any ideological reason to do so, here were even black Africans among the conquistadores).
** Gonzalo Guerrero is portrayed as having the longer end of the stick in the moral debate against the Spanish conquest of America, presenting the Maya civilization as peaceful and honorable in contrast to the Spaniards and especially the Inquisition. This comparison is especially funny because, considering the Mayans practiced human sacrifice from ancient times (not as much as Aztecs, but still), any number of executions attributed to the Spanish Inquisition would give nowhere near as many deaths as those achieved by the Mayans. Guerrero himself was one of the few survivors of this custom, a detail that is glossed over in the series.
** In the
episode 13, when Susana Torres argues featuring Phillip II, Alonso laments that they he misses the former's times, where the king supposedly "ruled over everything". This is not quite so; the king at the time was still subjected to the authority of the ''fueros'', which not even he could cure Irene's flu violate. An example is that of the Antonio Pérez del Hierro, a political enemy to Phillip II that managed to save himself from prison and execution by resorting to the ''Fueros de Aragón''.
** It's also odd that Phillip II is portrayed as racist, dismissing the American natives as savages, when in real life he was quite the opposite; he specifically wrote a royal order that the crimes against natives should be investigated
with antibiotics, the doctor has to point out ''more'' care that antibiotics do nothing on viruses.those against other Spaniards.



* TheBoardGame: The series have a board game

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* TheBoardGame: The series have has a board gamegame.
* BookDumb: In episode 13, when Susana Torres argues that they could cure Irene's flu with antibiotics, the doctor has to point out that antibiotics do nothing on viruses.

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** Cardinal Cisneros appears next to Queen Isabel in 1491. TVE has acknowledged that it is an anachronism because Cisneros was not in the Castilian Court until one year later, and was not made Cardinal until 1507, long after Isabel's death.
*** While the actor is the same that played Cisneros in the series ''Isabel'' (Eusebio Poncela), he seems to be way older, closer to what he looked like in the sequel ''Carlos, Rey Emperador'' which was set 12 to 24 years later depending on the episode. It's likely that Poncela shot his scene between takes of the second series.
** UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition was actually less harsh than depicted here. Only unrepentant defendants would in fact be sentenced to death. This issue never even comes up at the trial shown, but it would be the key one for real Inquisition tribunals. In any case, Torquemada definitely would never dare ignore an edict from the Pope or the Queen. He also wasn't bent on sending an accused to the stake as shown here.

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** Cardinal Cisneros appears next to Queen Isabel in 1491. TVE has 1491, a blatant anachronism (which was officially acknowledged that it is an anachronism by TVE) because Cisneros was not in the Castilian Court until one year later, and was not made Cardinal until 1507, long after Isabel's death.
*** While
death. Also, while the actor is the same that played Cisneros in the series ''Isabel'' (Eusebio Poncela), he seems is characterized to be look way older, closer to what he looked like in the sequel ''Carlos, Rey Emperador'' Emperador'', which was is set 12 to 24 years later depending on the episode. It's likely that Poncela shot his scene between takes of the second series.
series and they didn't bother to change the makeup used.
** UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition was actually less harsh than depicted here. Only unrepentant defendants would in fact be sentenced to death. This death, an issue that never even comes up at the trial shown, but it which would be the key one for real Inquisition tribunals. In any case, Torquemada himself, despite his reputation, was not as AxCrazy as portrayed here, and would have definitely would never dare ''never'' dared to ignore an edict from the Pope or the Queen. He also wasn't bent on Queen as shown here, especially not for the sake of sending an a random accused to the stake as shown here.stake.



** Constanza and Don Fadrique's wedding in 1212 begins in Latin, but switches to Spanish later on. We probably can attribute this to TranslationConvention.

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** In line with the previous, although arguably weirder, Constanza and Don Fadrique's wedding in 1212 begins in Latin, but switches to Spanish later on. We probably can attribute this to TranslationConvention.TranslationConvention, though.


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** The episode set in the Conquest of America has one of the Spanish captains screaming racial slurs against the natives, calling his soldiers to "exterminate those beasts" and stating that "they are not people, only animals", without it being portrayed as anything unusual. It goes hopefully without saying that there was no such system of beliefs behind the historical Conquest of America, or else the constant inter-marriage between Spaniards and natives would have meant the kingdom of Castille was populated by zoophiles.
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* BadassMustache: Alonso and Pacino
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** When Velázquez painted himself in ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Meninas Las Meninas]]'', he depicted himself with a Santiago Cross on his chest, an honor he did not receive until three years after the painting was completed. In episode 3, Salvador tells him that he knows he used a door to find out the truth. Velázquez also mentions ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Surrender_of_Breda The Surrender of Breda]]''.

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** When Velázquez painted himself in ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Meninas Las Meninas]]'', ''Art/LasMeninas'', he depicted himself with a Santiago Cross on his chest, an honor he did not receive until three years after the painting was completed. In episode 3, Salvador tells him that he knows he used a door to find out the truth. Velázquez also mentions ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Surrender_of_Breda The Surrender of Breda]]''.
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* NotSoDifferent: Salvador reveals to Julián that he, too, considered changing the past to save his wife, but he never did it.
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* TimePolice: The Ministry of Time is a division of the Spanish government regulating time travel.

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* CapturedOnPurpose: OneManArmy Alonso decides to take on a group of mutinied Napoleonic soldiers. He is arrested and thrown into jail...[[spoiler: that being captured was part of the plan.]]



* DidntThinkThisThrough: Fitting the very comedic tone of the episode, the patrol makes an impromptu, cliche-ridden attempt to pass themselves as Portuguese merchants when they are dealing with Columbus. Columbus, who has resided in Portugal for many years, is not fooled in the less.



** Alonso is driving a cart with food when a bunch of French soldiers stop it, intending to steal part of it. Alonso prepares himself to kick some ass... [[RealityEnsues and the next scene shows him being taken in by the French soldiers]] and imprisoned with the men the patrol was sent to free (which was part of the plan.

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** Alonso is driving a cart with food when a bunch of French soldiers stop it, intending to steal part of it. Alonso prepares himself to kick some ass... [[RealityEnsues and the next scene shows him being taken in by the French soldiers]] soldiers and imprisoned with the men the patrol was sent to free (which was part of the plan.



* RealityEnsues:
** OneManArmy Alonso decides to take on a group of mutinied Napoleonic soldiers. He is arrested and thrown into jail. [[spoiler:Subverted in that being captured was part of the plan.]]
** Fitting the very comedic tone of the episode, the patrol makes an impromptu, cliche-ridden attempt to pass themselves as Portuguese merchants when they are dealing with Columbus. Columbus, who has resided in Portugal for many years, is not fooled in the less.
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** Episode 39: [[Lola is about to die inside a crazy flying time machine after every other member of the crew has been shot by World War II planes in 1945. In a desperate last action, she sets the machine to travel to a random date well into the future in order to escape.]]

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** Episode 39: [[Lola [[spoiler:Lola is about to die inside a crazy flying time machine after every other member of the crew has been shot by World War II planes in 1945. In a desperate last action, she sets the machine to travel to a random date well into the future in order to escape.]]
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** Episode 38: [[spoiler: A giant machine resembling a building appears out of nowhere in 1937. An elevator descends from it, and out comes Díaz Bueno, who was supposed to be interned in a psychiatric in 2020, to take Lola hostage.]]


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** The episode called ''El Monasterio del Tiempo'' is a direct pun that swaps only one letter (the first 'i' in Ministerio) from the series' title. In the English translation, it doesn't work as Ministry is not close enough to Monastery. It doesn't work in the Portuguese adaptation either, as Mosteiro is also too different from Ministerio.

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** The episode called ''El Monasterio del Tiempo'' is a direct pun that swaps only one letter (the first 'i' in Ministerio) two letters from the series' title. title, with both words being almost identical in sound. In the English translation, it doesn't work as Ministry is not close enough far more different to Monastery.Monastery and both words have their accents in different syllables. It doesn't work in the Portuguese adaptation either, as Mosteiro is also too different from Ministerio.
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** The episode called ''El Monasterio del Tiempo'' is a direct pun that swaps only one letter (the first 'i' in Ministerio) from the series' title. In the English translation, it doesn't work as Ministry is not close enough to Monastery. It doesn't work in the Portuguese adaptation either, as Mosteiro is also too different from Ministerio.
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So far, there has been a first season (eight episodes, aired in 2015), a second season (thirteen episodes, aired between February and May 2016 with a two-week midseason break) and a third season (thirteen episodes, on air since June 2017).

[[FollowTheLeader It has also spawned at least one local version]] (''Ministério do Tempo'', for Portugal, with an ongoing first season) and other countries are starting their own versions. Also, Creator/{{Netflix}} signed a deal with Creator/{{TVE}} in 2017 to broadcast the series internationally, and helped finance the third season. However, the deal expired in February 2020, and the series made the jump to Creator/{{HBO}} in April of the same year, and they will also get to stream each episode of season 4 right after TVE premieres it. The first two seasons were originally broadcast only under the Spanish title, and when Netflix got involved to continue producing the show it was gifted an English name, subtitles, and international audience.

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So far, there has been a first season (eight episodes, aired in 2015), a second season (thirteen episodes, aired between February and May 2016 with a two-week midseason break) and break), a third season (thirteen episodes, on air since June 2017).

2017) and a fourth season (eight episodes, aired in 2020).

[[FollowTheLeader It has also spawned at least one local version]] (''Ministério do Tempo'', for Portugal, with an ongoing a first season) season aired in 2017) and other countries are starting their own versions.versions. A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrxlz63loTU Ukrainian version]] is in production with its release date unknown. Also, Creator/{{Netflix}} signed a deal with Creator/{{TVE}} in 2017 to broadcast the series internationally, and helped finance the third season. However, the deal expired in February 2020, and the series made the jump to Creator/{{HBO}} in April of the same year, and they will also get to stream each episode of season 4 right after TVE premieres it. The first two seasons were originally broadcast only under the Spanish title, and when Netflix got involved to continue producing the show it was gifted an English name, subtitles, and international audience.
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** The series begins with Julián crying and holding a dying Maite in his arms. [[spoiler:The series ends with, among other things, Julián smiling and holding his living wife as they check on their unborn child.]]
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* WeddingDay: Episode 20 takes place in Ortigosa's wedding.

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* WeddingDay: WeddingEpisode: Episode 20 takes place in Ortigosa's wedding.
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** In "El cisma del tiempo", Alonso, Lola and Pacino travel by train from Madrid to Peñíscola, and Lola asks Pacino if he liked the movie they saw during the travel, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witching_%26_Bitching Las brujas de Zugarramurdi]]. Hugo Silva (Pacino) had a main role in that film.

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** In "El cisma del tiempo", Alonso, Lola and Pacino travel by train from Madrid to Peñíscola, and Lola asks Pacino if he liked the movie they saw during the travel, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witching_%26_Bitching Las brujas de Zugarramurdi]].''Film/WitchingAndBitching''. Hugo Silva (Pacino) had a main role in that film.

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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Given that this is based on the idea of traveling in time...
** In episode 1, Velázquez (who becomes a regular) and El Empecinado. A gate even leads to the moment when he is painting the famous [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Meninas Las Meninas]].
** In episode 2, Lope de Vega and the Marquis of Ensenada.
** In episode 3, UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, Heinrich Himmler and UsefulNotes/FranciscoFranco.
** In episode 4, [[UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition Tomás de Torquemada]] and [[Series/{{Isabel}} Queen Isabella of Castile]].
** In episode 5, Creator/PabloPicasso.
** In episode 7, Queen Isabel II, her sister Infanta Luisa Fernanda and Queen consort Maria Cristina de Borbón of the Two Sicilies.
** In episode 8, Creator/SalvadorDali, Creator/LuisBunuel, Federico García Lorca, Pepín Bello and Rosita Díaz Gimeno.
** In episode 9, Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar and his wife Jimena. [[spoiler:The former, for all of 5 minutes before he gets killed.]] The 1960 meeting between Creator/CharltonHeston and historian Ramón Menéndez-Pidal is recreated in a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}.
** In episode 11, Creator/MiguelDeCervantes and an older Creator/LopeDeVega.
** In episode 12, UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte and Marshal Michel Ney.
** In episode 13, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Pita María Pita]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorio_Maranon Gregorio Marañón]].
** In episode 14, Harry Houdini, Ramón María del Valle-Inclán, Santiago Ramón y Cajal and J. Edgar Hoover. Joaquín Argamasilla is also one, but his show's self doesn't match the historical one. We think.
** In episodes 15 and 16, [[https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrique_de_las_Morenas_y_Fossi Captain De las Morenas]], [[https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturnino_Martin_Cerezo Lieutenant Martín Cerezo]] and [[https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogelio_Vigil_de_Quinones Doctor Vigil de Quiñones]] among the "Last Ones of Philippines".
** In episode 17, King Philip V and his wife Isabel de Farnesio.
** In episode 18, [[https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enriqueta_Marti la Vampira del Raval]]. There is also a FreezeFrameBonus of a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana_de_Mendoza,_Princess_of_Eboli woman in 16th century garb with an eyepatch]], walking in the interior of the 2016 Ministry.
** In episode 19, UsefulNotes/ChristopherColumbus.
** In episode 21, King Philip II and his secretary.
** In episode 22, Creator/AlfredHitchcock.
** In episode 24, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer.
** In episode 25, Francisco Goya, Manuel Godoy, the Duchess of Osuna and Simón Bolívar.
** In episode 26, Philip III, his wife, and Lope and Cervantes return.
** In episode 27, Alfonso XII, Sagasta and the Marquis of Comillas.
** In episode 28, Luis Buñuel and the members of his production crew such as Domingo Dominguín (uncle of Miguel Bosé, who has an [[YoungFutureFamousPeople unexpected cameo]]).
** In episode 29, Gonzalo Guerrero and Jerónimo de Aguilar.

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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Given that this is based on the idea of traveling travelling in time...
** In episode 1, Velázquez (who becomes a regular) and El Empecinado. A gate even leads to the moment when he is painting the famous [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Meninas Las Meninas]].
** In episode 2, Lope de Vega and the Marquis of Ensenada.
** In episode 3, UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, Heinrich Himmler and UsefulNotes/FranciscoFranco.
** In episode 4, [[UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition Tomás de Torquemada]] and [[Series/{{Isabel}} Queen Isabella of Castile]].
** In episode 5, Creator/PabloPicasso.
** In episode 7, Queen Isabel II, her sister Infanta Luisa Fernanda and Queen consort Maria Cristina de Borbón of the Two Sicilies.
** In episode 8, Creator/SalvadorDali, Creator/LuisBunuel, Federico García Lorca, Pepín Bello and Rosita Díaz Gimeno.
** In episode 9, Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar and his wife Jimena. [[spoiler:The former, for all of 5 minutes before he gets killed.]] The 1960 meeting between Creator/CharltonHeston and historian Ramón Menéndez-Pidal is recreated
time... in a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}.
** In episode 11, Creator/MiguelDeCervantes and an older Creator/LopeDeVega.
** In episode 12, UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte and Marshal Michel Ney.
** In episode 13, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Pita María Pita]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorio_Maranon Gregorio Marañón]].
** In episode 14, Harry Houdini, Ramón María del Valle-Inclán, Santiago Ramón y Cajal and J. Edgar Hoover. Joaquín Argamasilla is also one, but his show's self doesn't match the historical one. We think.
** In episodes 15 and 16, [[https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrique_de_las_Morenas_y_Fossi Captain De las Morenas]], [[https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturnino_Martin_Cerezo Lieutenant Martín Cerezo]] and [[https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogelio_Vigil_de_Quinones Doctor Vigil de Quiñones]] among the "Last Ones of Philippines".
** In episode 17, King Philip V and his wife Isabel de Farnesio.
** In episode 18, [[https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enriqueta_Marti la Vampira del Raval]]. There is also a FreezeFrameBonus of a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana_de_Mendoza,_Princess_of_Eboli woman in 16th century garb with an eyepatch]], walking in the interior of the 2016 Ministry.
** In episode 19, UsefulNotes/ChristopherColumbus.
** In episode 21, King Philip II and his secretary.
** In episode 22, Creator/AlfredHitchcock.
** In episode 24, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer.
** In episode 25, Francisco Goya, Manuel Godoy, the Duchess of Osuna and Simón Bolívar.
** In episode 26, Philip III, his wife, and Lope and Cervantes return.
** In episode 27, Alfonso XII, Sagasta and the Marquis of Comillas.
** In episode 28, Luis Buñuel and the members of his production crew such as Domingo Dominguín (uncle of Miguel Bosé, who has an [[YoungFutureFamousPeople unexpected cameo]]).
** In episode 29, Gonzalo Guerrero and Jerónimo de Aguilar.
fact, they have so many that [[HistoricalDomainCharacter/TheMinistryOfTime we gave it its own page]].



* HowWeGotHere: "Deshaciendo el tiempo" begins with [[spoiler:the Ministry burning, and nearly all the agents dead, save for Pacino and Carolina. Most of the episode is about how this was caused by Pacino's attempts to change the past.]]



* RealLifeRelative: Jan Fresneda, Nacho Fresneda's (Alonso) son, appears twice in the series. The first, Alonso's son as a pre-teen in "Tiempo de gloria", and the second as Alonso's younger self in "Deshaciendo el tiempo".



** OneManArmy Alonso decides to take on a group of mutinied Napoleonic soldiers. He is arrested and thrown into jail.

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** OneManArmy Alonso decides to take on a group of mutinied Napoleonic soldiers. He is arrested and thrown into jail. [[spoiler:Subverted in that being captured was part of the plan.]]



* RetGone: Implied with [[spoiler: Amelia's future daughter, who vanishes from her family photo with Julián after she sleeps with Pacino. This also might mean her granddaughter Silvia, seen in the season 1 finale, may never be born either.]]

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* RetGone: Implied with [[spoiler: Amelia's future daughter, who vanishes from her family photo with Julián after she sleeps with Pacino. This also might mean her granddaughter Silvia, seen in the season 1 finale, may never be born either. However, in Season 4, the photo is restored, meaning there might yet be a chance for them.]]



** The best agent always rebels. Lola, Leiva and now [[spoiler:Irene]].

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** The best agent always rebels. First Lola, then Leiva and now next [[spoiler:Irene]].


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** Pacino attempts to change the past in order to save Lola from being captured by Díaz Bueno. [[spoiler:This ends up causing too many problems, until Pacino undoes his changes.]]


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** In "Deshaciendo el tiempo", Pacino attempts to save Lola (with whom he is involved) from being captured by [[spoiler:Díaz Bueno]], but as he tries to change things it keeps getting worse until he accepts that it is impossible to get through.
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--->'''Salvador:''' This isn't a matter of taste. It's a shitty show, period.
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** The season 4 premiere has Irene meet film director Luis García Berlanga before his career began.

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* MundaneUtility: How do you get DNA samples of a guy that has been dead for nearly a thousand years? Use a time door that takes you to when he was a kid and get one of his baby teeth.

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* MundaneUtility: MundaneUtility:
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How do you get DNA samples of a guy that has been dead for nearly a thousand years? Use a time door that takes you to when he was a kid and get one of his baby teeth.teeth.
** UsefulNotes/FranciscoFranco's {{Body Double}}s: great for tricking and cornering would-be murderers, even better for skipping all those boring receptions to go hunting.
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''El Ministerio del Tiempo'' (''The Ministry of Time'', in some places ''The Department of Time'') is a Spanish TV series (2015-2017) broadcast by Televisión Española. Initially thought to be [[FollowTheLeader a copy of]] [[Series/DoctorWho a certain British time travel series]], it does deal with time travel but without space travel, aliens or travels to the future. WordOfGod attributes primary inspiration to Creator/TimPowers' novel ''Literature/TheAnubisGates'' and Creator/NicholasMeyer's movie ''Film/TimeAfterTime''.

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''El Ministerio del Tiempo'' (''The Ministry of Time'', in some places ''The Department of Time'') is a Spanish TV series (2015-2017) (2015-2017, 2020-) broadcast by Televisión Española. Initially thought to be [[FollowTheLeader a copy of]] [[Series/DoctorWho a certain British time travel series]], it does deal with time travel but without space travel, aliens or travels to the future. WordOfGod attributes primary inspiration to Creator/TimPowers' novel ''Literature/TheAnubisGates'' and Creator/NicholasMeyer's movie ''Film/TimeAfterTime''.
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** In Episode 35, Pacino mentions his similarity to a character from ''Los Hombres de Paco''... a character played by Hugo Silva, who also plays Pacino.
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[[FollowTheLeader It has also spawned at least one local version]] (''Ministério do Tempo'', for Portugal, with an ongoing first season) and other countries are starting their own versions. Also, Creator/{{Netflix}} signed a deal with Creator/{{TVE}} in 2017 to broadcast the series internationally. The first two seasons were originally broadcast only under the Spanish title, and when Netflix got involved to continue producing the show it was gifted an English name, subtitles, and international audience.

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[[FollowTheLeader It has also spawned at least one local version]] (''Ministério do Tempo'', for Portugal, with an ongoing first season) and other countries are starting their own versions. Also, Creator/{{Netflix}} signed a deal with Creator/{{TVE}} in 2017 to broadcast the series internationally.internationally, and helped finance the third season. However, the deal expired in February 2020, and the series made the jump to Creator/{{HBO}} in April of the same year, and they will also get to stream each episode of season 4 right after TVE premieres it. The first two seasons were originally broadcast only under the Spanish title, and when Netflix got involved to continue producing the show it was gifted an English name, subtitles, and international audience.
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** Amelia in episode 13, when Pacino and her have infiltrated the Schäuble building in search for the Spanish flu virus samples the company has taken from the Ministry:

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** Amelia in episode 13, when Pacino and her have infiltrated the Schäuble building in search for the [[UsefulNotes/TheSpanishFlu Spanish flu flu]] virus samples the company has taken from the Ministry:
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* SuperCellReception: Zig-zagged with the Ministry's cellphones. They can call to any age, but only work within Spanish territory, and even then can suffer the same reception issues as regular phones. In episode 3, a 1945 agent mentions that the phones are essentially "props" in the mountains.

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* SuperCellReception: Zig-zagged with the Ministry's cellphones. They can call to and from any age, time period, but only work within Spanish territory, and even then can suffer the same reception issues as regular phones. In episode 3, a 1945 agent mentions that the phones are essentially "props" in the mountains.
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* SuperCellReception: Zig-zagged with the Ministry's cellphones. They can call to any age, but only work within Spanish territory, and even then can suffer the same reception issues as regular phones. In episode 3, a 1945 agent mentions that the phones are essentially "props" in the mountains.
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* MetaTwist: Normally, when the boss asks for the patrol, he receives a call from them. however, in "spell time" they do not.

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* MetaTwist: Normally, when the boss Ernesto asks for the patrol, he receives a call from them. however, in "spell time" they do not.
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* MetaTwist: Normally, when the boss asks for the patrol, he receives a call from them. however, in "spell time" they do not.

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