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Rome: Season 1

post #1 of 12
9/2/06 at 5:08pm
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Just rented the whole first season and man what an awesome series. The first season concerns the civil war between Pompey and Julius Caesar leading up to the season finale where.....you know what....happens. The performances across the board were great especially the guy who played Julius Caesar and the boy who plays Octavian. It starts out slow but it does build some steam toward the end where it counts. Oh yeah, one of the producers is John Milius who gave the world "Conan". Damn what an awesome series this is. Highly recommended.
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post #2 of 12
9/2/06 at 10:04pm
FYI, the kid who plays Octavian was the boy in Master & Commander.
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post #3 of 12
9/3/06 at 3:26am
Starts off a bit annoying, but by mid-season things get glorious really quick. A great show.
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post #4 of 12
9/3/06 at 4:53am
I've only seen a few episodes from this show, but its quite good. I get the feeling that this is how Rome was, not some gauzy dramatization of what it should've been.
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post #5 of 12
9/3/06 at 5:16am
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Originally Posted by Andrew Collins
Starts off a bit annoying, but by mid-season things get glorious really quick. A great show.
I'm not sure what you mean by annoying, but I got into it pretty quickly. Usually I get annoyed by historical innacuracies but this time I was able to look past them. This was a unique retelling of the most important period of Roman history. Great stuff!

Unlike other Roman films/tv series this was neither cheesy nor a waste of our time. A worth successor to I, Claudius. Nice one.
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post #6 of 12
9/5/06 at 12:04pm
Oh great. Another HBO series to put on my want list. At $90 bucks a season, these things sure don't come cheap. Guess I'll wait until I see it on eBay for around $50.
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post #7 of 12
9/5/06 at 12:32pm
Are there any pictures on the internets of the packaging opened? I was looking at this at Best Buy the other day and couldn't figure out how the thing unfolds. They're expensive as hell but HBO makes nice packages.
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post #8 of 12
9/10/06 at 8:02am
It opens up like a hinged box, sort of. Hard to explain without images or diagrams...but very nicely done.

I'm intensely curious about where season 2, being the last season of Rome, will end. Historically there's two good endings...the defeat of the conspirators, or the naming of Augustus. Given that I hear there will only be 10 episodes in season 2, I don't think they could cram in the main bits between the end of season 1 and Augustus. There's a whole lotta scheming, intriguing, maneuvering, and battling that goes on in that period of time. I know they can always span a couple years between episodes, but still...that's several years worth of time...Augustus was 33 when he was named, and he's supposed to be around 17 by the end of season 1.

Plus, the Battle of Actium would cost a massive amount of money to stage, even a little bit of it.
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post #9 of 12
9/10/06 at 4:21pm
Well, the show was cancelled because of the massive amounts of money they sunk into making it, so who knows?
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post #10 of 12
9/11/06 at 11:52pm
Well, they started filming season 2 so it was not that big a disaster.
BTW the "All Roads Lead to Rome" feature is great. This is an option you can turn on before each episode that will flash on screen text at certain points with information about the history you are seeing.
The commentary by the producer and the Historical advisor for some of the episoded is fun also.
And I LOVE the Roman curses in the show "Fortuna Pisses on Me!".Great stuff.
And Polly Walker as Atia is most definently a Mom I Would Love To Fuck.
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post #11 of 12
9/12/06 at 12:23am
Polly Walker was the "extreme IRA" redhead in Patriot Games, by the way. "Tits."

And Lucius Vorenus (Kevin McKidd) was Tommy (Renton's footballer-turned-junkie friend) in Trainspotting.

I think there's a good curse somewhere in Rome involving Pluto's barbed cock.
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post #12 of 12
9/12/06 at 2:58am
Season two is done filming I believe, but it's already been announced that it will be the last.

I just finished watching Trainspotting again a few minutes ago, and was shocked that Tommy was Vorenus. Talk about contrasting roles.

I particularly like the reference to Egypt as being "hotter than Vulcan's cock."
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