so sorry wrote:TheBaxter wrote:cleopatra is hot
meh.
I love the hips, but the boy-hair is a turnoff.
While we're on the subject... I noticed that this season, Atia's sex scenes involve no nudity what so ever. And she has some nice ta-tas...
Fievel wrote:Only one more episode! :cry: :cry: :cry:
I will say again, I do love how they're doing their best to tie up as many ends as possible these last few episodes. Years go by between episodes, and it's not a problem whatsoever. Oh, how I did love Pullo killing that bitch that killed his wife & child. She had it coming. I felt bad enough for him that they were dead and he was shagging the wench that killed them.
Vorenus - what a loyal putz. At least he didn't turn in whats-his-name and his wife when they fled Alexandria.
So bring on the final episode HBO. Let us put this fantastic show to rest.
And then comes the final 9 of Sopranos. Oh what a cruel year this is becoming.
so sorry wrote: and this is it for the series, correct?
so sorry wrote:Fievel wrote:Only one more episode!![]()
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I will say again, I do love how they're doing their best to tie up as many ends as possible these last few episodes. Years go by between episodes, and it's not a problem whatsoever. Oh, how I did love Pullo killing that bitch that killed his wife & child. She had it coming. I felt bad enough for him that they were dead and he was shagging the wench that killed them.
Vorenus - what a loyal putz. At least he didn't turn in whats-his-name and his wife when they fled Alexandria.
So bring on the final episode HBO. Let us put this fantastic show to rest.
And then comes the final 9 of Sopranos. Oh what a cruel year this is becoming.
wait, there's only one episode left? SHIT!
That's going to be a jam packed episode... they can't end the series without anthony and Cleopatra's suicides, plus Vorenus and Pullo's reunion... and this is it for the series, correct?
Evil Hobbit wrote:That was an AMAZING episode. Definately one of the best. So sad it's over soon. But Fievel, when did Pullo kill the bitch? Did I miss something? She was fighting along his side right.
Evil Hobbit wrote:Sweet, great episode. Mighty frenzy sex scene from Octavian. :shock: Pullo killing the bitch was realy satisfying. What a great actor. Also loved how Vorenus threw the ball hard on little Anthony.
so sorry wrote:Evil Hobbit wrote:Sweet, great episode. Mighty frenzy sex scene from Octavian.Pullo killing the bitch was realy satisfying. What a great actor. Also loved how Vorenus threw the ball hard on little Anthony.
Yeah, I like how Vorenus seems to be the only Roman keeping his head clear in Alexandria.
PS that's not Mark Antony's son he was playing ball with and talking to... that's Cesarion, Julius Cesar's kid (SPOILER:when Octavian ultimately destroys Antony and reclaims Egypt, he executes Cesarion...)
Fievel wrote:TheBaxter wrote:although, according to the tv show's "history", it's actually Pullo's kid.
:shock: huh?
When did Pullo shag Cleopatra? I don't remember that.
TheBaxter wrote:when vorenus is telling caesarion about his father, it's pullo he's talking about, not caesar.
TheBaxter wrote:when octavian says that the boy will have to be killed, you can see it on pullo's face, 'cos he knows he's really talking about his son. i wonder if the set up with pullo's wife and unborn child dying was a set up for his eventual reunion with his first son.
Wolfpack wrote:Hey, don't fret. We're getting A Song of Fire and Ice next year. The future looks good.
so sorry wrote:...out like a lamb.
I can't help but be disappointed with the end of Rome.
The biggest battle (at that time) in naval history reduced to opening credits background.
the Triumph of Cesar Augustus, ending years of civil war and ushering in Pax Romana, reduced to close up scenes of a few dozen people (and a horse cart with Anthony and Cleopatra's effigies that got 2 seconds of screen time).
But it wasn't just the obvious budget shortcomings that bothered me... I have major issues with the writing too:
Atia, portrayed by this show as a major power player, was given a scant 5 minutes tacked on at the end of the episode.
Vorenus was mortally wounded, but lives a month to see his children, only to die the day he returns?
Pullo rescuing his son was really a bit obvious, and how he could ever raise that spoiled brat in Rome without being found out is beyond me.
What I just witnessed was a rushed ending to a spectacular show that I wish had another couple of episodes to really flesh out the end of Antony and Cleopatra and the triumph of Augustus.
Rome was a show that deserved more than it got, and I'm glad I stumbled upon it, but man, I wish its ending was as honorable as Antony's.
Keepcoolbutcare wrote:SS is correct in lamenting a mere 10 episode season, but I would've like to have seen more of, say, Octavia and Agrippa (tho' to be honest, that mook who played Agrippa (or maybe the characterization) was dead weight), of just what made Gaia the bitch-whore she was.
Adam Balm wrote:or the battle of Actium where Antony turns his back on his army to save Cleopatra.
John-Locke wrote:You guys are crazy, it was a brilliant ending to a brilliant show, maybe it's because I don't know the history very well but it worked for me. As for them not showing the battles? Well they get boring pretty quickly if you ask me. It's more of a character piece showing how the decisions of the few have far reaching consequences. Anthony & Cleopatras deaths were expertly handled, Vorenus and Pullos fates felt fitting and Atia's 5 minutes at the end were pure gold even though she didn't say much.
I do wonder what happened to Poscia and Timon though.
Adam Balm wrote:I'm curious. For those folks out there (myself included) who found the ending lacking, what do you think would've been a more fitting ending?
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