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Related: About this forumI'm rewatching "Rome" on DVD...for about the 6th time...
The first season is still incredible...what a great show. HBO ruined the second season because they only renewed it for one more, letting them know it was the final season. They crammed too much into it, it didn't have the drawn out plots and subplots the first season did that made it so great...the second season was clearly meant to be two seasons...I wish it were still going on, there is so much they could have done with it.
MaineDem
(18,161 posts)I loved it.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)I can relax and watch some more...who needs to know who the Pats get to beat in 2 weeks!! (Hope I didn't jinx them!)
MaineDem
(18,161 posts)Between Aussie Open and PBS I'm not watching much NFC football tonight.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)Too tired...been fighting a cold for about 5 days now...
Howler
(4,225 posts)I really love "Rome" Too! I watched it when it first ran on cable and bought both seasons too.
Ohhhhh the battles between the roman women are epic!
This series did make Cleopatra a little ferral for my taste but........ LOL! the production is so good that I can live with that.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)Not the typical great beauty she is portrayed as being...she's almost sort of boyish looking, and I wonder if that was the point when they cast the actress.
Plus I doubt very seriously that Cleo wouldve spent any time with a mere soldier in bed. LOL!
She was in a very percarious position until she hooked up with Ceasar. Female Royality had to make strategic partnerships even with relatives to make and keep power.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)somehow being right at the heart of all these historic events...
I thought one of the funniest scenes was when they were on the ship in the storm and one of them slanders ......Posiden? Neptune? and the ship wrecked.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)They find Pompey...and of course it is when Varenus finds out his wife has cheated that he leaves Caesar and that's why he's killed.
Howler
(4,225 posts)When his wife threw herself out the window? Man.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)Poor Naiobi didn't make it back for season 2!
Howler
(4,225 posts)there was quite a bit of shocking Drama with several of the charactors. My Faverot story thread was between the cousin? or sister?of Ceasar and his ageing mistress.( Its been a couple of years since I watched it) Whoa! Hell hath real fury!
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)of his life, Sevillia, who is the mother of Brutus...and legend has it Caesar was actually Brutus' biological father...they certainly imply that it's possible in this series.
Howler
(4,225 posts)The writters of "Rome' were just superb.
As a matter of fact whe we first watched Lucy Lawless in Sparticus Blood and sand Her charactor reminded me alot Of Atia and Sevilla's charactors in "Rome"
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)joeybee12
(56,177 posts)A Rome feature film is becoming less of a maybe some day and more of a definitely soon. At the end of 2008 it was reported here that series co-creator Bruno Heller wanted to see Rome rise again. There doesnt seem to be much holding it back now, with the script having been completed and the stars having a desire to film it.
HBO may be realizing that they prematurely cancelled Rome, a co-production with the BBC. The program shows the violent transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire. Heller had a multi-year plan for the series but, when he learned the it was ending after the second season, he hurried his story along. The series stars Kevin McKidd and Ray Stevenson, and also features Indira Varma, David Bamber, Chiara Mastalli, Manfredi Aliquo, Suzanne Bertish, Max Pirkis, Lee Boardman, Esther Hall, and Ciaran Hinds.
Despite the fact that Heller seemed to kill off McKidds character, Lucius Vorenus, he left himself an out. Vorenus was indeed seriously wounded and appeared to die, but his body was never shown being sent to the afterlife. Heller explains, It was very deliberate that we saw him drifting away, but didnt see him atop a funeral pyre. Kidd himself even adds in, I never closed my eyes!
Howler
(4,225 posts)Now thats very HAPPY news!!!!! I can't wait!!!!!!!
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)it up...like showtime...so it could have lived on...
I'm hoping the same for the Camelot series too.
Hayabusa
(2,135 posts)what the show could have been like if they hadn't been cancelled, showing the reign of Emperor Augustus in the detail that it deserved, rather than condensing it into one season. That and chronicling the reigns of other emperors as well.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)great characters with great actors...it really is a black stain on HBO's reputation.