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* ArbitrarySkepticism: Barbara is initially skeptical of the idea that Susan can sense the TARDIS.

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* ArbitrarySkepticism: ArbitraryScepticism: Barbara is initially skeptical of the idea that Susan can sense the TARDIS.
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* NotSoDifferent: The Tsar observes that, in the end, the revolutionaries have resorted to the death of innocents and other such practices that they claimed to be trying to reject.

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* NotSoDifferent: NotSoDifferentRemark: The Tsar observes that, in the end, the revolutionaries have resorted to the death of innocents and other such practices that they claimed to be trying to reject.
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* RealityEnsues: Despite his protestations of still being fit, the Doctor has trouble keeping up with the rest of the digging crew when he’s initially assigned to the trenches.
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* ClosestThingWeGot: The Doctor is forced to perform a medical examination on the Romanovs because the usual doctor is unavailable

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* ClosestThingWeGot: The Doctor is forced to perform a medical examination on the Romanovs because the usual doctor is unavailable unavailable.



* EveryoneHasStandards: Doctor expresses his frustration with the inevitability of history

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* EveryoneHasStandards: Where he just accepted the situations they encountered in the show, here the Doctor expresses his frustration with the inevitability of history when he talks with the Tsar.
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* ArbitarySkepticism: Barbara is initially skeptical of the idea that Susan can sense the TARDIS.

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* ArbitarySkepticism: ArbitrarySkepticism: Barbara is initially skeptical of the idea that Susan can sense the TARDIS.
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* ArbitarySkeptic: Barbara is initially skeptical of the idea that Susan can sense the TARDIS.

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* ArbitarySkeptic: ArbitarySkepticism: Barbara is initially skeptical of the idea that Susan can sense the TARDIS.



* SwitchedRoles: Barbara acknowledges that history can’t be changed while Susan, from a culture of time-travellers, wants to do more in the current situation.

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* SwitchedRoles: Barbara SwappedRoles: Barbara, who once tried to save the Aztecs, now acknowledges that history can’t be changed changed, while Susan, from a culture of time-travellers, wants to do more in the current situation.
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When the TARDIS arrives in Russia in 1918, the crew soon realise that they are there on the eve of a great tragedy…

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*ArbitarySkeptic: Barbara is initially skeptical of the idea that Susan can sense the TARDIS.
*BlatantLies: The idea that the windows were painted for the Romanovs’ protection is known to be a lie.
*CallForward: The Doctor all but explicitly mentions fixed points in time.
*ChekhovsSkill: Barbara finds Susan meditating in the TARDIS, and Susan later tries to teach this to Anastasia.
*ClosestThingWeGot: The Doctor is forced to perform a medical examination on the Romanovs because the usual doctor is unavailable
*DidAnastasiaSurvive: Barbara mentions the popular belief that Anastasia might have survived her death, and Susan speculates that the meditation techniques she tried to teach Anastasia might help her escape.
*EveryoneHasStandards: Doctor expresses his frustration with the inevitability of history
*HeroicSacrifice: The Tsar agrees to go quietly to his death if his executioners will let the TARDIS crew go free.
*HopeSpot: The TARDIS crew provide one to the Romanovs, but they all know they can’t save the family.
*IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance: Susan didn’t know much about the Russian Revolution before these events, as the Doctor didn’t talk about this period of history and Coal Hill history looked at the French Revolution.
*NotSoDifferent: The Tsar observes that, in the end, the revolutionaries have resorted to the death of innocents and other such practices that they claimed to be trying to reject.
*OhCrap: The Doctor says ‘Oh dear’ when he realizes where and when they have arrived.
*PragmaticHero: Barbara at least tries to be this when stopping Susan from leaving the ship to try and help the captured Doctor and Ian.
*RealityEnsues: Despite his protestations of still being fit, the Doctor has trouble keeping up with the rest of the digging crew when he’s initially assigned to the trenches.
*ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The Tsar is relatively calm about his captivity, treating his guards with civility despite their own attempts to provoke him.
*SelfServingMemory: After seeing the TARDIS dematerialize, a man decides to ignore it as it doesn’t fit his view of reality and just act as though it never happened.
*ShoutOut: Anastasia recalls her father reading ''Literature/TheScarletPimpernel'' to her and her siblings.
*SwitchedRoles: Barbara acknowledges that history can’t be changed while Susan, from a culture of time-travellers, wants to do more in the current situation.
*TemptingFate: The Doctor walks out of the TARDIS despite the foreboding atmosphere of their current location, and he and Ian are swiftly arrested as deserters.

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