― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 29 August 2005 21:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 29 August 2005 21:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 29 August 2005 21:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 29 August 2005 21:30 (eighteen years ago) link
Mr teeny and I had a good discussion on the authenticity of the landing strips on the ladies--I pointed out that the roman men seemed to favor shaving their faces and so perhaps the ladies shaved as well, but he maintained that if that was the case, it would probably be all or nothing. I was frankly stunned that he did not know of some poem or whatnot that would settle the debate.
― teeny (teeny), Monday, 29 August 2005 21:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 29 August 2005 21:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 29 August 2005 21:51 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 29 August 2005 21:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Legroom at the Vista (Bent Over at the Arclight), Monday, 29 August 2005 22:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 00:56 (eighteen years ago) link
M.: Because nudity was more common in Rome than it is here. Public baths alone (which were not always unisex), I mean!
― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 03:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 04:33 (eighteen years ago) link
blood and landing strips aside, what i liked, and what i'm hoping the hbo-nastiness allows more windows into, are moments where the historicity of the show can seem really alien, ie where the attitudes and motivations of ppl can be shown to be actually "classical" ie pre-enlightenment and pre-christian. there were a few flashes of this, the best one i wish i remembered better, but Octavian says something like "I'm going alone?" and Atia responds yes blah blah... a few lines later she mentions which slaves he's taking, threatens one to protect him with his life, and this was no dissonance at all: alone = your slave retinue. similarly, she was fucking the horseman with all of these people milling around her bed: there is no private self, and they didn't count anyway.
― geoff (gcannon), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 04:03 (eighteen years ago) link
I don't see how this will work as a series on HBO, cock and vadge aside. (I know it's nice that they can let it all hang out, but HBO needs to step off the naked train, it's a bit of a cliche.) Hopefully it gets better as they have time to flesh out individual plots and follow characters, rather than telling the I, Claudius story.
Wouldn't it have been better to see the story of the Pompey/Caesar/betrayal/Civil War through the eyes of a set of characters not in the history books? I guess it's a harder sell for $100mn, but that story through a minor aristocratic family with sons on both sides, following their slaves as real characters etc. sounds much more interesting than upper-echelon aristocratic decadence and politicking.
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 04:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 05:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― leigh (leigh), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 11:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― JD from CDepot, Monday, 5 September 2005 01:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 5 September 2005 02:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 5 September 2005 04:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 5 September 2005 04:20 (eighteen years ago) link
but really, rome so far has been awesome, sex, violence, and enough history to keep a nerd like me happy
― JD from CDepot, Monday, 5 September 2005 04:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― geoff (gcannon), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 03:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 06:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 07:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 12 September 2005 03:54 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 12 September 2005 05:21 (eighteen years ago) link
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― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 00:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 04:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 04:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 04:40 (eighteen years ago) link
That opening theme still sucks though. Why they didn't go with a Mtn Goats song is beyond me. (There were a few moments where Marc Antony looked like J0hn in this last ep!)
― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 04:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 04:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― JD from CDepot, Monday, 19 September 2005 18:18 (eighteen years ago) link
I want to know how they're going to get Lucius Vorenus back into the army. I thought maybe Pompey's boy would kill (hotttt) Niobe and that would get him back into the Legion, but no dice.
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 19 September 2005 19:59 (eighteen years ago) link
Very true about Niobe. Very, very hott and she reminds me of a mosaic from Pompei too.
I'm becoming fond of the Pullo character, strangely, and some of the dialogue between Lucius and he is classic, such as when, after Pullo has advised Lucius to attend to the little button above his wife's c*nt, Lucius asks in horror and indignation how Pullo knows about it.
― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 19 September 2005 20:20 (eighteen years ago) link
anyway this is going a bit slow and the atia stuff is still v lame.
i liked all the religion! the augurs, the shrines, candles everywhere, and everyone treating it like real actual stuff.
― geoff (gcannon), Monday, 19 September 2005 23:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 00:21 (eighteen years ago) link
That was pretty interesting! Mostly because you'd expect the bit about why people would join the army to come at the beginning, rather than in the middle.
How long is this series supposed to go?
― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 06:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 06:06 (eighteen years ago) link
What is/are Extras?
― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 16:27 (eighteen years ago) link
Or that B-52s song
― retort pouch (retort pouch), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 16:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 17:38 (eighteen years ago) link
Pullo and Young Augustus getting together was great, though.
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 19:08 (eighteen years ago) link
"Or that B-52s song" Rock Lobster?
― JD from CDepot, Wednesday, 28 September 2005 19:20 (eighteen years ago) link
i've said upthread that i liked how the show places religion. it's all very pagan and nasty and corrupt but at the same time very serious and real (to vorenus especially) but how much of it will turn out to be actual? the entrail reader promised niobe her husband would be rich, and sevilia (sp?) cursed gaius and atia (scary scratching on lead sheets, very cool)...how much of this will the plot actualize? other than the 'e tu' obv.
much repsec to indira varma's stunt-boob, whoever she was.
― geoff (gcannon), Saturday, 1 October 2005 16:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Saturday, 1 October 2005 20:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― JD from CDepot, Monday, 3 October 2005 04:12 (eighteen years ago) link
such a classi, great show. RIP Titus Pullo
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 30 May 2023 03:13 (nine months ago) link
The writers hate Cicero so much.
― what you say is true but by no means (lukas), Wednesday, 30 August 2023 04:12 (six months ago) link
Just saw a trailer with Indira Varma front and center!
― Make Me Smile (Come Around and See Me) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 22 March 2024 19:43 (one week ago) link
She lives round the corner from me and is
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 22 March 2024 20:57 (one week ago) link
…always quite striking even in “just got out of bed to grab coffee” mode
Also a surprisingly awesome audiobook reader for Terry Pratchett’s witches books
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 22 March 2024 20:59 (one week ago) link
Exactly as this thread was revived, I was watching Indira play Lady Macbeth in London's Docklands.
she was great, in case that needed stating....
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Sunday, 24 March 2024 20:55 (five days ago) link
That’s the trailer I saw!
― Make Me Smile (Come Around and See Me) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 24 March 2024 21:00 (five days ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57_IiR1ynw8
― Make Me Smile (Come Around and See Me) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 24 March 2024 22:23 (five days ago) link