Rome

Perry Winkle • Jan 14, 2007 8:40 pm
It starts in 20 minutes. Got your popcorn ready?
JayMcGee • Jan 14, 2007 8:52 pm
is this the Beeb series? If so, excellent stuff - not to be missed.
Happy Monkey • Jan 14, 2007 9:03 pm
I think it's a BBC/HBO collaboration. And the opening credits are on right now!
JayMcGee • Jan 14, 2007 9:06 pm
Thats the one. Aired over here last year. Well worth watching... up there with 'I, Claudius'
JayMcGee • Jan 14, 2007 9:10 pm
..... and, to get in the right frame of mind, you might want to put a littlle tomato ketchup on your popcorn.....
Perry Winkle • Jan 14, 2007 10:08 pm
Solid episode. I've got high hopes for the season.

!SPOILER WARNING -- EP: Passover -- Highlight to read!

[COLOR="White"]I think the writers are on shifting ground by setting Titus and Vorenus on what appears to be a Mafia story-line. Tricky storytelling, at least for American audiences that already associate HBO with Mafia through Sopranos.

I hope they pull it off well.[/COLOR]
Spexxvet • Jan 15, 2007 12:06 pm
I missed it! Have to catch it on demand.
wolf • Jan 17, 2007 2:28 am
I was lucky enough to be home to watch it. I loved season one, am wondering where they can go with season 2 ... a darn awful lot of stuff happened in that first episode.
Happy Monkey • Jan 17, 2007 11:30 am
Octavian's ascention to emperor over Antony and Cleopatra?

Once it's over, it might be cool to watch Rome, then I, Claudius. But it would be hard to see Rome's Octavius turn into Brian Blessed...
wolf • Jan 17, 2007 11:45 am
The Octavian stuff is a given, I was more wondering about our less royal characters ... Verenus and Pullo. I've speculated my way through a couple of variations, and it's basically not good.
Pie • Jan 17, 2007 11:46 am
JayMcGee;307309 wrote:
Thats the one. Aired over here last year. Well worth watching... up there with 'I, Claudius'


I used to call it "I Clavdivs". :p
Perry Winkle • Jan 17, 2007 2:19 pm
wolf;308005 wrote:
The Octavian stuff is a given, I was more wondering about our less royal characters ... Verenus and Pullo. I've speculated my way through a couple of variations, and it's basically not good.


The good thing they've done is to fill out Pullo's character by showing his tender side and exposing him to politics and intellectualism. And they've shown that Vorenus doesn't deserve, or even fulfill, the lofty "golden child" position he holds in the series.
Perry Winkle • Jan 21, 2007 9:57 pm
Good episode this week. We thought we'd seen the wrath of Vorenus before...I have a feeling that's nothing compared to what's coming.
Perry Winkle • Feb 18, 2007 10:00 pm
Anyone know what's going on with the Jews? I'm not very familiar with Judaism before 1,200 AD.
Perry Winkle • Mar 6, 2007 5:56 pm
Anyone else think the woman who plays Gaia (Zuleikha Robinson) is just incredibly gorgeous? She oozes sex. Amazing.
rkzenrage • Mar 6, 2007 6:05 pm
Tivo & on-demand are my friends! Lovin' this show and the specials on on-demand.