Late to the Party, Chapter CLXXIV: Rome on HBO

Started by Martinus, October 16, 2009, 07:19:41 AM

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Slargos

#15
October 17, 2009, 08:02:30 AM
Quote from: Lucidor on October 17, 2009, 07:43:45 AM
Quote from: Slargos on October 16, 2009, 06:25:37 PM
Pullo and Vorenus are on my list of favourite fictional charactars evarh!  :D

It was a brilliant show, historicity be damned.
I still think of Pullo when I see you post.

:blush: :hug:

Slargos

#16
October 17, 2009, 08:03:00 AM
Quote from: Martinus on October 17, 2009, 07:50:27 AM
Quote from: Slargos on October 16, 2009, 06:25:37 PM
Pullo and Vorenus are on my list of favourite fictional charactars evarh!  :D

It was a brilliant show, historicity be damned.

I like Pullo, but my favourite character is Atia.  :lol:

Quelle surprise  :rolleyes:

Martinus

#17
October 17, 2009, 08:08:25 AM
Quote from: Slargos on October 17, 2009, 08:03:00 AM
Quote from: Martinus on October 17, 2009, 07:50:27 AM
Quote from: Slargos on October 16, 2009, 06:25:37 PM
Pullo and Vorenus are on my list of favourite fictional charactars evarh!  :D

It was a brilliant show, historicity be damned.

I like Pullo, but my favourite character is Atia.  :lol:

Quelle surprise  :rolleyes:

I just think she is a wonderful mother. :P

Alcibiades

#18
October 17, 2009, 01:37:03 PM
Why am I not surprised.   :rolleyes:
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The Brain

#19
October 17, 2009, 01:43:07 PM
Only seen parts of it. OK I guess.
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Threviel

#20
October 17, 2009, 03:40:22 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on October 16, 2009, 07:27:20 PM
Quote from: grumbler on October 16, 2009, 05:45:57 PMExcept for later Octavian, it was pretty much perfectly cast for its purposes.

Would you rather have had Brian Blessed?  :P

That has to be the most retarded choice for Augustus ever. Fucking BBC or whatever...

grumbler

#21
October 17, 2009, 10:34:14 PM
Quote from: Threviel on October 17, 2009, 03:40:22 PM
That has to be the most retarded choice for Augustus ever. Fucking BBC or whatever...
I think you utterly missed the point on why Blessed was chosen for that role...
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

Bayraktar!

Queequeg

#22
October 18, 2009, 02:07:59 AM Last Edit: October 18, 2009, 02:11:26 AM by Queequeg
Quote from: Martinus on October 16, 2009, 03:54:09 PM

I watched it two years ago. :P

HBO and Showtime are my favourite networks.
Both passe.  In another quarter-decade you'll be raving about how fabulous Salvatore Romano is and how much you want to fuck Don Draper. 
Quote from: PDH on April 25, 2009, 05:58:55 PM
"Dysthymia?  Did they get some student from the University of Chicago with a hard-on for ancient Bactrian cities to name this?  I feel cheated."

Martinus

#23
October 18, 2009, 03:15:45 AM
Quote from: grumbler on October 17, 2009, 10:34:14 PM
Quote from: Threviel on October 17, 2009, 03:40:22 PM
That has to be the most retarded choice for Augustus ever. Fucking BBC or whatever...
I think you utterly missed the point on why Blessed was chosen for that role...
Being able to bellow about Varus and the eagles? :P

garbon

#24
October 18, 2009, 03:43:36 AM
Quote from: Queequeg on October 18, 2009, 02:07:59 AM
Both passe.  In another quarter-decade you'll be raving about how fabulous Salvatore Romano is and how much you want to fuck Don Draper. 

That reminds me. I'm still angry that Providence has never been released on DVD. I'd snatch up all the seasons at once! <_<
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I Killed Kenny

#25
October 18, 2009, 05:02:11 AM
Quote from: Martinus on October 17, 2009, 07:50:27 AM
Quote from: Slargos on October 16, 2009, 06:25:37 PM
Pullo and Vorenus are on my list of favourite fictional charactars evarh!  :D

It was a brilliant show, historicity be damned.

I like Pullo, but my favourite character is Atia.  :lol:

great cans

Threviel

#26
October 18, 2009, 09:42:17 AM
Quote from: grumbler on October 17, 2009, 10:34:14 PM
Quote from: Threviel on October 17, 2009, 03:40:22 PM
That has to be the most retarded choice for Augustus ever. Fucking BBC or whatever...
I think you utterly missed the point on why Blessed was chosen for that role...

Could you please tell me? If the reason is good enough I might even manage to watch more than 20 minutes...

Queequeg

#27
October 18, 2009, 10:00:49 AM
Quote from: garbon on October 18, 2009, 03:43:36 AM
That reminds me. I'm still angry that Providence has never been released on DVD. I'd snatch up all the seasons at once! <_<
The sister on Providence is an old friend of my families'.  She's Mormon.  Watched over me as a little kid in Sunday School. 
Quote from: PDH on April 25, 2009, 05:58:55 PM
"Dysthymia?  Did they get some student from the University of Chicago with a hard-on for ancient Bactrian cities to name this?  I feel cheated."

grumbler

#28
October 18, 2009, 11:00:30 AM
Quote from: Threviel on October 18, 2009, 09:42:17 AM
Could you please tell me? If the reason is good enough I might even manage to watch more than 20 minutes...
Because Blessed isn't paying Augustus, he is playing Augustus as perceived by Claudius:  loud, sometimes kind, but more than a bit thick when it comes to family.  Blessed plays the Augustus of the books quite well, even though he isn't particularly believable as the historical Augustus "as we know him."

And you have to accept the stage-like production values of the series as a given.  This wasn't a flaw in the production, it was a deliberate production decision.
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

Bayraktar!

Malthus

#29
October 18, 2009, 02:14:14 PM
I agree with Grumbler: this isn't Augustus the world-conquoring emperor, this is Augustus the guy completely unable to handle his truly horrible family.  :D

One of my favourite scenes is the one where Augustus is reviewing the line of guys alleged to have fucked Julia, and at one point in a sort of angry dispair roars: "Is there anyone here who has *not* had sex with my daughter?!"
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius
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