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― Gukbe, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 02:40 (seventeen years ago) link
Looks like Kevin McKidd is going to be in a time-travel cop show! Looks like this is starting next week.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 15:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Watching a few episodes of this every week with s friend in the US and somehow, even though I often think of it as my favourite show ever, I’d forgotten how good it is. Well, at least the first series remains perfect. I spent a lot of time just admiring the attention to detail in costumes and the set (and cursing that the latter burned down), the cast is perfection and it’s just incredibly entertaining at all points.Lots of people will say that it never really was as good after Caesar was killed off, but I personally love deranged s2 Vorenus and sadistic adult Augustus a lot. My actual series favourite is Mark Antony, not least because James Purefoy plays him with a sort of dissipated vibe and is a massive ride while doing so.Watching it in 2020, it’s difficult for me not to agree with the cast who thought that GOT got the funding and promo it should have had. Superb and over before its time.
― caută tu singur (gyac), Wednesday, 19 August 2020 10:41 (three years ago) link
OTM. All time. One of my favorite ever TV series.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 19 August 2020 12:17 (three years ago) link
Finished rewatching this yesterday, and had completely forgotten the ambiguity over Vorenus’s death. I mean, he survived injury and being pulled in a cart by Pullo for a month only to then die? Don’t buy it, he’s as dead as Caesarion. Unfortunately due to the set burning down we’ll never know. :(Also, degenerate Mark Antony in eyeliner with the snake tattoo around his nipple is extremely weirdly hot, still. S2 is a bit lacklustre in comparison to 1 but there’s still so much I loved this time round again. I was interested to read that Antony being considered to have taken up local customs when he was in Egypt was a scandal irl as well.
― scampo italiano (gyac), Monday, 21 September 2020 17:55 (three years ago) link
The eyeliner is not a huge stretch. Both men and women in the Egyptian ruling class wore kohl. Antonius would have seen this as part of his power moves to rule Rome by capturing control of Egypt.
The snake tattoo is just Hollywood razzle-dazzle. Tattoos appear to have arrived in Europe around 1500 CE. If the Romans knew about them at all, it would have been via Scythian slaves and the Roman senatorial class would have shunned them comprehensively as a disfiguring and barbaric blemish, more like a cattle brand than an adornment.
― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Monday, 21 September 2020 18:16 (three years ago) link
aye the Romans used tattoos to brand prisoners of war and criminals so would have looked down on them, and it was pretty otm of them say I with no tats!
― calzino, Monday, 21 September 2020 18:43 (three years ago) link
well the Romans of that era I should have posted.
― calzino, Monday, 21 September 2020 18:45 (three years ago) link
something like nine centuries later the Holy Roman Empire starting using tats on soldiers i think.
― calzino, Monday, 21 September 2020 18:48 (three years ago) link
Lads I think ye misunderstood my point about Antony’s tattoo.
― scampo italiano (gyac), Monday, 21 September 2020 19:04 (three years ago) link
I was reading a Byzantine history book recently so I'm an egg spurt!
― calzino, Monday, 21 September 2020 19:06 (three years ago) link
I think ye misunderstood my point about Antony’s tattoo.
oh, I think not. HBO knew what they were aiming for and it wasn't historic accuracy, but something a bit more, um... differently located.
― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Monday, 21 September 2020 19:13 (three years ago) link
That was my point though?
― scampo italiano (gyac), Monday, 21 September 2020 19:15 (three years ago) link
funny thing is, the eyeliner could have been true to life. at least when he was in Egypt.
― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Monday, 21 September 2020 19:18 (three years ago) link
actually thinking his snake “tattoo” was maybe?just henna? Which would have made more sense at the time.https://www.frockflicks.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/tumblr_m607rfgUaC1qeun5ho1_500.gif
― scampo italiano (gyac), Monday, 21 September 2020 19:23 (three years ago) link
I've been discovering an obsessive interest in Sumerian culture lately, and kohl (šembi, šimbi, šem-bi-zi-da) goes back 3000 years prior to Antony. Originally charred frankincense, by Antony's time powdered antimony or lead compounds, and neurotoxic. So a little crazy should be expected from those with heavy eyeliner/mascara.
― Disgraced, committing sudoku (Sanpaku), Monday, 21 September 2020 19:50 (three years ago) link