Yes, the depiction of gay Roman stuff=well dodgy, I believe. More than slightly. But as you say, Doctor Who is probably not the place for that kind of realism.

I would have been happier if they had made some effort to suggest that Roman approaches to sex were *different* rather than so very 2017, but I can see that might be hard, and after all, this is science fiction and it's hardly at all sciency!

I ended up liking this one too in the end,