R00k wrote:Well I was generalizing a little - I've only seen one or two eps from each season.
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Go buy Season 1 now. Yes it's not cheap...but the box is wood and looks cool as hell. Seriously, you'll want to rewatch it again and again. The atmosphere and dialogue are what make the series.
season 1 was great.
season 2 was mostly lame.
it got really sopopera-ish and shifted too much focus away from the history and onto the characters.
dunno why but the british accents and slang really started to bug the shit out of me too.
that's weird because normally the brit accents bug me from minute one (being a brit, there's zero novelty), but in Rome i thought they were able to overcome the usual merchant-ivory jane austen wanky-wanky associations
btw the telescoped nature of season 2 had to do with the fact that HBO/BBC were running out of money. but remember that's 10 hours, and hollywood has covered the same in less than three
i take your point about shifting from history to characters though - season 2 was really the part where rome went from republic to empire, yet it was presented as a personal squabble (plus whatever happened to the third man in the triumvirate?)
Dr_Watson wrote:season 1 was great.
season 2 was mostly lame.
it got really sopopera-ish and shifted too much focus away from the history and onto the characters.
dunno why but the british accents and slang really started to bug the shit out of me too.
It's a story about the lives of two men living in the times of Caesar and Octavian. If you want history, read the numerous history books documenting the political and military history of Rome. The show skews a lot of facts to make it more palatable for a TV audience, so if you are interested in 100% accuracy, Rome isn't the place to find it.
R00k wrote:Well I was generalizing a little - I've only seen one or two eps from each season.
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Go buy Season 1 now. Yes it's not cheap...but the box is wood and looks cool as hell. Seriously, you'll want to rewatch it again and again. The atmosphere and dialogue are what make the series.
P.S. the same buddy of mine told me that his understanding was it was a very successful show for HBO, but Bruno Heller only wanted to make 2 seasons from the beginning, so that's all there were.
seremtan wrote:that's weird because normally the brit accents bug me from minute one (being a brit, there's zero novelty), but in Rome i thought they were able to overcome the usual merchant-ivory jane austen wanky-wanky associations
i take your point about shifting from history to characters though - season 2 was really the part where rome went from republic to empire, yet it was presented as a personal squabble (plus whatever happened to the third man in the triumvirate?)
Crassus? He died about a year before the Battle of Alesia...which is right when the series kicks off. And really, the move from republic to empire WAS driven by personal squabbles (Caesar's being the most important one).
