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Post by greendemon on Jul 17, 2007 13:06:24 GMT 1
i haven't seen that episode yet! i knew that historically antony and octavia get married though, so it doesn't really count as a spoiler there are some GREAT lines in rome - the language is a bit coarse for my liking; i can never hear the f-word in histfic literature or historical drama without thinking it's anachronistic - but i think the gore and sex is probably what life was like in those days. we can't look at history objectively while remaining within our sheltered modern views of the world and what is right and proper. and anyway, all that blood makes good telly ;D
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Post by Admin on Jul 17, 2007 13:08:47 GMT 1
Mel watched a bit and was like, it's all made up anyway, and I was like, well there were some books written at the time as to what things were like, so it's not all fiction. Who are the made up characters then? Pullo and Vorenus?
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Post by greendemon on Jul 17, 2007 13:17:12 GMT 1
pullo and vorenus and everyone at the collegia are made up as far as i know. i think everyone else is real, though, and a lot of the basic plot is accurate - even the bit about cleopatra having a son by caesar. octavian's friend agrippa is real, but the bit about him having an affair with octavia isn't i think. but it's definitely not all made up! i can't think of any more interesting facts
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Post by Da Quen B on Jul 17, 2007 13:22:28 GMT 1
I can't keep track of the second series because of the silly time slots. But I am watching the first one on DVD.
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Post by greendemon on Jul 17, 2007 13:25:18 GMT 1
i don't know why the 2nd series is on twice a week when there's only 10 episodes they must be trying to get it out of the way so they can start something else - could it be the tudors, i wonder? *much excite* my first three initials spell JAM.
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Post by Admin on Jul 17, 2007 15:20:30 GMT 1
It's because Heroes is coming! I bet characters like Pullo and Vorenus are based on a bit of fact though, I bet there was some story about a returning soldier finding his wife pregnant by another man, etc, etc, and the collegiate are the early Mafia I assume?
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Post by greendemon on Jul 17, 2007 15:39:47 GMT 1
oh dunno if i want to watch that i dunno if it's based on a real story - probably just something the scriptwriters came up with! though i'm sure stuff like that must have happened. i feel sorry for niobe; he was gone for 8 years and as far as she knew he was dead! and yeah, the collegia do remind me of the mafia - it's quite amusing... er... i've been to pompeii...
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Post by Admin on Jul 17, 2007 20:32:44 GMT 1
You get around
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Post by greendemon on Jul 18, 2007 17:47:55 GMT 1
not quite as much as atia
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Post by Admin on Jul 18, 2007 21:21:06 GMT 1
I'm taping the double eppy tomorrow, and then sunday is the last one!
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Post by greendemon on Jul 18, 2007 22:44:03 GMT 1
i HATE gaia...!
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Post by greendemon on Jul 22, 2007 18:56:56 GMT 1
finale tonight! EEEEEE
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Post by Admin on Jul 22, 2007 20:31:15 GMT 1
I missed the last 2 eps as botched up my timer Friends at work are lending me the tape though and am deffo taping tonight's ep.
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Post by greendemon on Jul 23, 2007 0:13:55 GMT 1
it ended brilliantly... apart from the gladiator episode towards the end of season 1, the best one, i reckon
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