| 1 | * DesignatedHero: The Doctor ends up being unintentionally responsible for ''burning down Rome'' and this is treated as something to Squee! about. It says a lot about how cleverly-written the story is that it comes across as a genuine moment of celebration and a turning point for the Doctor's character, but think of all those people who died because of him! |
| 2 | * HarsherInHindsight: As stated above, the show takes the Doctor's role in the burning of Rome fairly lightly. [[spoiler: It won't be so funny when he's forced to [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E2TheFiresOfPompeii incinerate the people of Pompeii]] forty years later.]] |
| 3 | * SpecialEffectsFailure: The burning of Rome. It was added late in production when the budget had run out and nobody was happy with how it looked. |
| 4 | * StockFootageFailure: Ian is taken to fight in the arena, and peers out of the bars of his cell to see what it is he's going to fight. What follows is a poorly-edited sequence of lots of different lions in clearly very different zoos, none of which look remotely Roman. |
| 5 | * ValuesDissonance: The Doctor finding Nero's sexual abuse of women funny and harmless (saying "what an extraordinary fellow!" as he sees Nero chasing an underdressed, screaming women down a corridor) is something that would never fly in a children's programme nowadays. It works well today as BlackComedy, though. |
| 6 | * TheWoobie: That female slave. Also Tigellinus. And super-woobiedom is likely in store for Tavius, as well, in the form of a CruelAndUnusualDeath at his master's hands. |
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