― geoff (gcannon), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 15:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― geoff (gcannon), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 15:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 20:10 (eighteen years ago) link
[special voice]he did actually go by the name Octavius for at least some of his life.[/special voice]
― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 21:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 21:53 (eighteen years ago) link
And YES Niobe is bad!!! In a good way. She was bad in Kama Sutra and still is.
― Mr Godwell, Tuesday, 4 October 2005 21:57 (eighteen years ago) link
and how badass is Marc Antony? having whores fight for his pleasure, what a monster. how cool.
― JD from CDepot, Tuesday, 4 October 2005 21:59 (eighteen years ago) link
Atia and her family/soap opera (aside from Octavian) remains a weak point of the show, even more boring now that they're irrelevant to the episodes themselves. There's something wrong with Brutus's mouth, I think, or maybe he just talks funny.
I'm not too keen on where the show is headed based on next week's preview - seems like they're compressing the civil war/Caesar meets Cleopatra (getting Lucius Vorenus's sloppy seconds by the look of it) more than is necessary. I wonder if maybe they'll actually finish this season with Caesar's assassination and begin the next season with Octavian becoming Augustus?
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 10 October 2005 04:05 (eighteen years ago) link
It was my thought also, that they'd end this season with Caesar being killed, what with how fast things are moving. I'm not sure how well Max Pirkis would fit the role of the older Octavian so soon though, if this is the case.
― Mingus Dew (Mingus Dew), Monday, 10 October 2005 04:42 (eighteen years ago) link
I guess what I'm saying here is I'm worried it peaked about two weeks ago and we're on a downward slide now.
― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Monday, 10 October 2005 12:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rotgutt (Rotgutt), Monday, 10 October 2005 14:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Monday, 10 October 2005 15:18 (eighteen years ago) link
I suspect what we're going to see next season is Pullo/Vorenus being split apart by loyalties. Vorenus swore fealty to Marc Antony in order to return to the XIII, Pullo has his in with the future Emperor.
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 10 October 2005 17:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― geoff (gcannon), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 22:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stuck to a Seat in the New Beverly (Bent Over at the Arclight), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 00:12 (eighteen years ago) link
The torrent took forever, and I had to find another one. Still, despite the battle scene, despite the lameness of the new Octavia story, and despite the ridiculous effect at the end -- let us say, despite being directed by TIMOTHY VAN PATTEN! -- it was a good episode. Dude with the fake nose was great, at least historically/visually. Casting the shows creators as gods within the actual show, kinda hokey, but I suppose it explains a few things.
― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 08:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 17 October 2005 00:26 (eighteen years ago) link
i did think something was off about that conversation. the scene where pompey senses that he can play on vorenus' old school pieties to save himself i thought was well orchestrated, but then v's subsequent explanation to caesar didn't ring right; wouldn't he have expressed the same romey honor ("i could not enslave or kill such a man, sah" etc) which caesar would undoubtedly agree (he did kind of say this but eh). considering the historical record shows caesar weeping at the death of pompey and deposing ptolemy b/c of it (have not seen tonights ep yet, it's in the pipe) + his concern to bring cicero & brutus back into the fold... it seemed caes' anger was inserted just to have that gag answer it.
― geoff (gcannon), Monday, 17 October 2005 03:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― geoff (gcannon), Monday, 17 October 2005 03:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Are You Nomar? (miloaukerman), Monday, 17 October 2005 04:19 (eighteen years ago) link
god, i LOVE this show. im so sad i don't get a new one next week.
― JD from CDepot, Monday, 17 October 2005 04:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mingus Dew (Mingus Dew), Monday, 17 October 2005 05:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― JD from CDepot, Monday, 17 October 2005 05:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mingus Dew (Mingus Dew), Monday, 17 October 2005 05:16 (eighteen years ago) link
Hated the way they handled the siege and victory again - "blah blah blah IT'S BEEN A YEAR blah blah blah CAESAR IS VICTORIOUS." I know there are major budget constraints, but there's gotta be a better way to do that.
― Are You Nomar? (miloaukerman), Monday, 17 October 2005 05:19 (eighteen years ago) link
otherwise, exxxcellent ep!! wanton cleopatra ok by me, no use re-historicizing that, added junkie indie frisson just icing on the cake.
speaking of shakespeare, i was waiting to see the stoic brutus emerge, since they started him as a toff. reunion with mama very well done. it's a cold world!
― geoff (gcannon), Monday, 17 October 2005 06:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― geoff (gcannon), Monday, 17 October 2005 06:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Monday, 17 October 2005 12:22 (eighteen years ago) link
There were gratuitous lesbian interpolations! Ah well.
There will be no episode next week? Why?
― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 07:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― geoff (gcannon), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― geoff (gcannon), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 03:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 04:11 (eighteen years ago) link
That was perhaps the best directed episode so far, though. Even Atia was pleasant enough.
― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 10:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stone Monkey (Stone Monkey), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 11:38 (eighteen years ago) link
What did you expect, the entire cast is British after all
― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 11:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matt (Matt), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 12:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 02:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Are You Nomar? (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 02:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 02:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 03:20 (eighteen years ago) link
I'm actually surprised they don't do more co-productions in this vein.
― Stone Monkey (Stone Monkey), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 12:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Are You Nomar? (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 18:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― RickyT (RickyT), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 22:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 22:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 22:46 (eighteen years ago) link
isnt he the best charachter on the show? I love when caesar asks for his opinion and he PLOTS.
― Lovelace (Lovelace), Thursday, 3 November 2005 01:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 3 November 2005 01:09 (eighteen years ago) link
vorenus for magistrate is pretty inspired even if the "inevitable seperation" of v. and pullo is kind of zzz. and all the stuff w octavian was terrific.
― geoff (gcannon), Thursday, 3 November 2005 01:57 (eighteen years ago) link