Rome - "Death Mask"
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redfiona99First of all let me lambast the director - Dear Sir, the thing I like about Rome, is that it's very artfully been artless. No frills directing and the like. I approve of this. I disapprove of your flimmery directorial style.
I feel that the amount of stuff going on warrants a break down into points:
Obviously I want her dead. I want her dead yesterday, if not sooner. I also don't understand what she's after.
I also presume she was named to add yet more funny to the whole repetition of 'Where you are Gaius, I am Gaia' going on.
If we've not converted Opera yet, I think that episode should do it.
I don't think that saying that no-one in this house is going to end happily is anything other than screamingly obvious. Oh Vorena, you'll break your father's heart. (PS: Who's playing her suitor?)
I did wonder how they were going to get round the two of them being settled down, to having the two of them kill each other on the battlefield (which I have a horrid, horrid feeling in my bones is going to happen). I desperately want them to have a happy ending, but I can't see it happening.
Anthony was right, that was one hell of an exit. Once and present housemate disapproves of the slave killing herself, but she's having all sorts of difficulty with there being slaves on the show that are being treated as such and then still liking their masters.
And it's also one way of ending a blood feud. It also strikes me that it's a suitable ending for Servilla, and I like that she finally felt guilty about what she'd done to Brutus.
So glad he got a relatively happy ending. Because I was so worried that his brother would chicken out and he'd try and kill Herod only to be killed himself. I was so glad that someone on the show finally showed sense.
Now I just worry about what's going to happen to him next week.
Called this because I'm damned if I know where to put Mark Anthony, or Agrippa or Maecius.
Marrying Jocasta off to Posca was a low-down filthy trick by Atia.
Maecius went up in my estimation. He not only kept his cool, but managed to bare-facedly lie to Anthony, on the spur of the moment, but he also at least tried to help Agrippa.
And this episode also explained how Anthony and Octavia ended up married. You can't fault Octavian's logic there, even if I do refer to it as Octavian's plan to make everyone miserable. Once and Present Housemate was having difficulty with Romans not consulting their womenfolk on who they're getting married off to. And at Octavian watching his mother having sex. I just explained that psychoanalysis is 2000 years away and he's just going to have to plot to become emperor instead.
I am amused at Lepidus's complete lack of enthusiasm for spliting the Roman state into separate bits.
Actually Sam Wood did a bang up job of being just as miserable as everyone else at the wedding, only it being Octavian it's all very quiet and subtle facial gestures. I really want to watch the recent Pride and Prejudice if only because I was assured that they made Mr. Bingley a bumbler and I want to see this guy doing bumbling.
I would kill for the end of this to be Octavian crowned and some sort of backdrop of all the bodies that he's climbed over to get there.
Mark Anthony once again got all the best lines though.
Anyone know who played Herod, IMDB are being useless on that front.
I feel that the amount of stuff going on warrants a break down into points:
Obviously I want her dead. I want her dead yesterday, if not sooner. I also don't understand what she's after.
I also presume she was named to add yet more funny to the whole repetition of 'Where you are Gaius, I am Gaia' going on.
If we've not converted Opera yet, I think that episode should do it.
I don't think that saying that no-one in this house is going to end happily is anything other than screamingly obvious. Oh Vorena, you'll break your father's heart. (PS: Who's playing her suitor?)
I did wonder how they were going to get round the two of them being settled down, to having the two of them kill each other on the battlefield (which I have a horrid, horrid feeling in my bones is going to happen). I desperately want them to have a happy ending, but I can't see it happening.
Anthony was right, that was one hell of an exit. Once and present housemate disapproves of the slave killing herself, but she's having all sorts of difficulty with there being slaves on the show that are being treated as such and then still liking their masters.
And it's also one way of ending a blood feud. It also strikes me that it's a suitable ending for Servilla, and I like that she finally felt guilty about what she'd done to Brutus.
So glad he got a relatively happy ending. Because I was so worried that his brother would chicken out and he'd try and kill Herod only to be killed himself. I was so glad that someone on the show finally showed sense.
Now I just worry about what's going to happen to him next week.
Called this because I'm damned if I know where to put Mark Anthony, or Agrippa or Maecius.
Marrying Jocasta off to Posca was a low-down filthy trick by Atia.
Maecius went up in my estimation. He not only kept his cool, but managed to bare-facedly lie to Anthony, on the spur of the moment, but he also at least tried to help Agrippa.
And this episode also explained how Anthony and Octavia ended up married. You can't fault Octavian's logic there, even if I do refer to it as Octavian's plan to make everyone miserable. Once and Present Housemate was having difficulty with Romans not consulting their womenfolk on who they're getting married off to. And at Octavian watching his mother having sex. I just explained that psychoanalysis is 2000 years away and he's just going to have to plot to become emperor instead.
I am amused at Lepidus's complete lack of enthusiasm for spliting the Roman state into separate bits.
Actually Sam Wood did a bang up job of being just as miserable as everyone else at the wedding, only it being Octavian it's all very quiet and subtle facial gestures. I really want to watch the recent Pride and Prejudice if only because I was assured that they made Mr. Bingley a bumbler and I want to see this guy doing bumbling.
I would kill for the end of this to be Octavian crowned and some sort of backdrop of all the bodies that he's climbed over to get there.
Mark Anthony once again got all the best lines though.
Anyone know who played Herod, IMDB are being useless on that front.
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Date: 2007-07-12 05:34 pm (UTC)Once and present housemate disapproves of the slave killing herself, but she's having all sorts of difficulty with there being slaves on the show that are being treated as such and then still liking their masters.
Haha, funnily enough, that's what I loved about it. It's what I said in one of my earlier comments. They kept the Roman mentality and didn't modernize it. Slaves were an accepted reality.
I really want to watch the recent Pride and Prejudice if only because I was assured that they made Mr. Bingley a bumbler and I want to see this guy doing bumbling.
I didn't see the whole thing, because I have no interest in a Kiera Knightley version of B&B, however I did see a clip of Simon Woods as Bingley, and it has to be seen to be believed. o.o