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Rome

So, thanks to the fabulous N and S, I managed to finally see Passover (season 2, episode 1). I was only 7 years late.

It was every bit as amazing as you'd all told me.

( Spoilers )

In short, Rome yay!

Fitness

The fitness drive is being complicated by my body being odd. You know the thing they tell you about how to weigh yourself at around the same time every day because otherwise you pick up diurnal variation, which can be as much as 2 lb. Make that 4 lb and that's what's entirely possible for me even if I weigh myself at the same time +/- half an hour. I have been assured that this is not a good thing by at least a couple of med students, but that's always been the way I've been.

Saw the Fast and the Furious 3 - Tokyo Drift.

Whoever told me Han was the best thing in it was so very right, either that or DK's paintjob or the car stunts. They were some lovely stunts.

I don't know if it's just because most of the other actors were not from the US, but the lead guy's accent stood out a mile. To the point of wondering if it's a put on accent. (Have looked it up. It's not. Even more of a shocker, that's Caleb from American Gothic!)

Also,
[spoilers] I wish to point out something that I shall refer to as the Toretto effect. It refers to the way that anything Vin Diesel says while playing Dom Toretto sounds like innuendo. And that this effect is doubled if it is dialogue about a male character. The one that really sealed it was, when he turns up at the end of the film and says that he'd raced against Han, and lead character dude goes 'I didn't think that Han was into American muscle cars', to which Dom replies 'He did when I knew him'. And it's like, there was no way that wasn't innuendo.
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However, Tokyo Drift does break with the previous films in that its entirely possible for the plot to work without the assumption that the two lead male characters are romantically involved.

Brutal Legend rocks

I fear that should actually be 'rawks'. Very silly fun game, not the most user-friendly of playing systems but, as I say so very much fun and very clever.

I knew I recognised the new doctor from Being Human from somewhere

It's Cleopatra from Rome. She has a very distinctive voice, it was just odd seeing her in modern day clothing.

I'd love to be able to confirm my suspicion but that would involve the BBC actually putting up cast lists.

( (Insert Keyboard Mashing) )

So both looking forward to and not looking forward to Sunday's episode.

Dear Vino, I know you always have one cruddy stage per tour, but did you have to fall off your bike quite so spectacularly. Although at least you're better off that poor Kloeden. A sore cocxyx is the last thing you want when you're riding a bike.

Something that interests me about Rome is that, unlike a lot of shows, our heroes are earthy, they're interested in food and drink and sex and there's mud and grime and gore, so in order to separate people out they've had to do the opposite of what's usually done. Usually if a character in a programme or film expresses anything like an ejoyment of the pleasures of the flesh then they are automatically a bad guy. In this our heroes love these things so the least human characters are shown to enjoy them less e.g. Octavian, who's two sex scenes have both been fade to blacks, which is odd in this show, and he's about the only male character we've never seen kill someone.

It intrigues me.

Heroes - after they show the trailer for the next Rome they've been hyping up Heroes, which may well be replacing it in the schedules. I am very intrigued by the trailer.

( How you can tell this was a filler episode )

So I am both looking forward immensely to the last 4 episodes and feeling utter dread because I have grown attached to these characters and do not want to know what terrible fate HBO has in store for them.

I know I should talk about Dr. Who, but that was meh while this was good.

( The Tortoise and the Hare )

Having seen the trailer for the next episode, I can totally see why they changed Octavians. While I shall hear nothing against Max Pirkis, he'd not be able to stand shoulder against shoulder with James Purefoy.

Finally getting season 2 over here, even if I accidentally missed the first episode :P

But never mind that, ( the second one was plenty good enough )