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Rome...what was all the fuss over?

  • 17-01-2008 11:30am
    #1
    Skinfull
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,439 ✭✭✭


    Okay not the city but the TV show!

    Watched the first two episodes last night and frankly I wasn't impressed. Sure it looked good and the fighting was top notch but the rest of it was very underwhelming. I expected more from this show. Gratuitous sex scenes which may be "historically accurate" but frankly were unnecessary and unbelievable characters.

    Am I missing the point? :rolleyes:


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  • #2
    tbh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,914 ✭✭✭✭tbh


    Keep watching, it's like not reading a book after the first two chapters.


  • #3
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,018 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    It gets better and ramps up as has been mentioned... but the sex scenes really are gratuitous and not very historically accurate either. It'd be rather like doing a historical series about Dublin 2000 years in the future using boards.ie as your textbook :)
    The character of Attia, for example, was absolutely nothing like the character in the TV series.

    Tom Holland has written some good books on ancient Rome and Greece. I'd recommend them if you want to know what it was really like.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #4
    BaZmO*
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,625 ✭✭✭✭BaZmO*


    Ah stick with it. I don't normally watch TV series's (what's the plural of series?) but I really enjoyed Rome. Although I do have a fascination with Roman history. But even that aside I still thought it was a great show.


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