compared to today, people living during the Republic days of Rome weren't always the most likeable in their actions - that is what I like about this show so far, it seems to have very little "hollywood" in it ya know - they are trying to show it like it was as best they can they showed Marc Antony stopping his legion of troops so he could sex up a peasant sheep hearder - not exactly a likeable trait but it is realistic I am interested in watching Gaius Octavius Thurinus develop - I'm not sure how far the show will go in history though, I dunno if we will get to see him becomg Ceasar Augustus, perhaps the greatest Roman Emperor there was.
In today's politically correct world that would be called rape. But you are right I thought it shown as they would have viewed it - just the general getting his rocks off. Its a good show. I think Ceasar will get it in the season finale. Too much stuff going on between 52BC and 44BC when Ceasar dies. (I think those dates are right.)
I read somewhere that some of the cast were locked up for 5 years so there is not tellling how long the show/time period will go or if each individual season will focus on a specific Ceasar... not to diverge from the Rome talk, but the Entourage season finale (I think) was this past Sunday and I just watched it last night...Ari is on his own after being fired and Vince talks to JamesC...if it was the finale, a little lame, but ok... Sorry, had to edit...Niobe is freaking hot...
I had to look up some pictures of Niobe after seeing her in ep 2. Something about her face. Anyways, to my surprise, she was in some Kamma Sutra movie. Cha ching!
indira verma is hot. she was in Bride & Prejudice too, but her best "work" was in Kama Sutra. btw, the lead male in that movie was Naveen Andrews from Lost
Cleopatra wasn't too bad either. She's played by some women named Lindsey Marshal...couldn't find any good pictures, but she is on the front page of http://www.hbo.com/rome/
I haven't seen this past Sunday's episode, but will tonight...I also think Octavia, played by Kerry Condon is kinda hot...She got even hotter with her love scene with Servilia, but not enough nudity...
OK, someone who watched the last episode - did they imply that Titus Pullo is the father of Cleopatra's son and not Caesar? If so good stuff
I skipped reading the last two posts, since I'm watching it tonight. Too much sports the last two nights. Thank goodness for TIVO. Anyway, from my early post, I have developed an interest in some of the characters. Pollo and Venerius Diseasius are growing on me, as well as Octavius. It gives me something to watch while waiting for Deadwood season 3.
I dont know. The show is getting weird. The title is pretty ambitious, but maybe need to be changed to "The death of Ceasar" or something like that. I was hoping there would be big battle scenes. Of couse I was disspointed. Was it necessary to show that man with large penis? And these lesbian love scenes. Ok, we get it, Rome was pro-choice left wing democrats. Well, I guess I am still watching it, though not as enthusiastic about it as I was before the first episode.
No epic battle scenes in this biotch. They skip right over it. And what that has done, intentionallly or not, is given me the feeling that these great persons are actually easily gotten too. I mean ****, of the people who have died, people walked right up to them and killed them. Walked right into their homes and killed them. Maybe that is the way it was. But if it was, it makes you wonder how these people had so much power, or truthfully, if they even did. Because you see CLeopatra and think that's all there was to the great women. There's like one old lady protecting her and a little caravan. This is one hundred years after Troy. And when you watch that movie, you say wholly crap, that is a freaking fortress of stone and people protecting their leaders. Whereas I look at Caesar and think some poor **** could walk up and knock him off.
Huh? Try 1000 years. Information about Troy and that battle are scarce and mainly sourced from Homer's Iliad (verbal story told for history & entertainment purposes) and what they have found from the ruins of the city. Troy (the Brad Pitt movie) was alot of Hollywood liberties with the limited known facts. I think the only fact everyone can agree on is there was a war and Troy was destroyed. Information about Rome and the people are well documented with several historian sources. So far of what I've seen and read on the web "Rome" has been historically very accurate.
