This episode uses a number of environments previously seen in the live action movies, including Padmé's apartment verandah (Episode III), the Senate corridor (Episode II) and rotunda chambers (Episode I), the Jedi Council war room (Episode III), entrance gates (Episode III), and Cato Neimoidia (Episode (III).

Anakin uses "clicks" as a unit of time in this episode. In previous episodes, "klicks" were used to denote distance -- kilometers. It is not yet known how long a click is.

When Anakin expresses surprise that Padme and Clovis were ever close, Obi-Wan raises a very suspicious eyebrow.

Not a single blaster is fired in this episode, nor is a lightsaber ignited, nor does anything explode.

An earlier concept for this story would have replaced Rush Clovis with the boy Palo, mentioned by Padmé in Episode II. This was abandoned for a couple of obvious reasons. One, Palo is said to have abandoned politics to become an artist. Secondly, their relationship was at a very young age -- when Padmé was 12. It worked better for the thread of jealousy if Padmé's past flame would have been a relationship she had as an adult.

The Senate pods do indeed have sound-dampening privacy technology, which is what allows Anakin and Padmé to talk so freely even in the midst of the Senate chambers.

Padmé mentions the Holonet to Rush Clovis, the first time this expanded universe concept is mentioned in a source like this. The HoloNet is a galaxy-wide communications network that works somewhat like television and the Internet. It was first mentioned in a 1989 roleplaying game sourcebook.

The chairs at the Neimoidian dinner are all articulated self-propelled mechno-chairs.

The all-Aurebesh screen on the holographic projector in Lott Dod's library actually contains tutorial text for basic 3-D computer modelling.

The grand hall gallery at Lott Dod's palace include many heroic paintings of past Neimoidians, done in a classical style, including a Napoleonic Neimoidian riding a kaadu.