You could have the rejection from Titus's point of view, and then an episode later, see Domitian and Julia going off afterwards and trying to decide if they got away with it. And possibly occasionally something will happen, and you will see them both react, but there's a climatic episode later on where you get the full horror of them fleeing their family home in disguise, while their uncle is killed by the mob, and then supporting each other as Domitian has to step out and accept the crown on behalf of his father, contrasted with the nice 'clean' war Vespasian and Titus are fighting, while Titus and Berenice hook up. (Okay, fine, only Domitian is known to have done that, but he might as well take Julia along, as we don't even know when she was born, and the accepted date would have that marriage being arranged when she was 7. Though 'no, I do not want to marry a seven year old, what is wrong with you?' would also come across well to modern eyes)
f you want to do, say, an episode where Titus has to question a lot of certainties he previously believed in, you absolutely could have him wonder whether this death was really what he assumed it to be, that's agood idea.
If nothing else, there's the difference between the perceptions of 16 year old Titus and 41 year old Titus, especially if you go with the Nero-Domitian parallels which appear in Suetonius (I once read someone saying that Suetonius, survivor of Domitian, is really writing about Domitian when he writes about Domitian's predecessors Nero and Tiberius and their purges)-- and of course, both of them were anti-Senate, in a way that could initially appear sympathetic. Titus the scared adolescent and Titus the grown adult might look at the same events completely differently, especially after a life in the palace.
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f you want to do, say, an episode where Titus has to question a lot of certainties he previously believed in, you absolutely could have him wonder whether this death was really what he assumed it to be, that's agood idea.
If nothing else, there's the difference between the perceptions of 16 year old Titus and 41 year old Titus, especially if you go with the Nero-Domitian parallels which appear in Suetonius (I once read someone saying that Suetonius, survivor of Domitian, is really writing about Domitian when he writes about Domitian's predecessors Nero and Tiberius and their purges)-- and of course, both of them were anti-Senate, in a way that could initially appear sympathetic. Titus the scared adolescent and Titus the grown adult might look at the same events completely differently, especially after a life in the palace.