Did Anyone Watch the Caesar Mini Series On TNT

[Sprayber]

Just got through watching the last part a few minutes ago. It was pretty good for a TV mini series. In some places it seemed a little rushed but all in all it was worth the time spent watching it. The series starts out with the arival of Sulla and ends with the death of Caesar on the Senate floor. One good point is that it didn't focus on Cleo too much. There were parts that I wished would have been done a little different but hey it was pretty good for TV.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/headline/entertainment/1968164

edit: It was especially nice to see Christopher Walken as Cato

[Dis]

It's still on right now.

Although I'm not sure if this is the first part or second.

[Sprayber]

Originally posted by Dissident
It's still on right now.

Although I'm not sure if this is the first part or second.

Your watching the replay it's the second part

[Dis]

personallly, I was hoping for some hot sex scenes with Cleopatra

[Poogas]

I missed it, but I did watch the "Roman War Machine" special's on the history channel, it was like a 6 parter or something...

Hopefully their is a replay of that caesar one, gonna have to watch that.

[Sprayber]

They will have plenty of replays.\

Dissident. You'll have to wait for the dvd version of that I believe.

[Dis]

yep, Ceaser just got whacked

[GePap]

I liked it. I think it was very well done. There were a few things I really liked, specially how characters that have gotten almost no on screen time ever got time here, like Marius (for a very short time), Sulla, Pompey and Cato. They did the battle scenes well, though too much use of horses: someone who did not know better would thnk the core of the Roman army of this time was cavalry.

I was also somewhat perplexed by no mneiton of the Tirumvarate being made, and Crassus is never even spoken off, even when they talk about the great slave revolt. The show also continues the notion that Octavian and Caesar had little to do with each other, I mean, he is not even mentioned until the pre-credit stills, and they even call him Augustus and not Octavian. I mean, there must have been a reason Caesar named him and not Marc Anthony as his successor.
All the actor did very well, though I think Wlaken did chew up the sceenry a bit too much as Cato. Sisto (??) did a very good Caesar, and Noth a very good Pompey.

Still, the best depecition of Roman times I have seen since I Claudius.

[Kramerman]

it was well done

but i have a question form last night... did caesar really let that celt (im not even gonna try to spell his name Xangiaorfhdlfcadfczxxxx...) go, who later became the leader of the celts (or was he all along?)

[Traianvs]

Vercingetorix you mean, or..?

(I haven't watched it so...)

[BeBMan]

Saw it last year in German TV (IIRC one of Germany´s major tv stations was co-producer).

I had quite low expectations (esp. because of other mini-series, eg. the Cleopatra thing with Timothy Dalton as Caesar), but was positively surprised - for tv stuff it was good, althought I disliked certain elements. Also I disliked the actor who played Caesar.

But overall worth watching.

[SpencerH]

I channel surfed by, but after watching roman catapults throwing fireballs and then watching roman calvary (wtf?) using a gladius (even worse wtf?) I decided it was not for me and moved on.

Find a copy of 'I Claudius'. Its much better.

[reds4ever]

has anyone seen the Attila series I think it was a two parter (virtually films) made by HBO? Quite good considering, although they could have kept the magic mumbo-jumbo out of it.

[Sava]

It was entertaining... what sucked was that I already knew the ending.

[Sprayber]

Originally posted by Sava
It was entertaining... what sucked was that I already knew the ending.

Yeah that kind of goes with the territory where historical dramas are concerned.