Did Anyone Watch the Caesar Mini Series On TNT

[GePap]

It would have been funnier if they showed him living, and then running away and living hapilly incognito somewhere else. Now that would have been a real surprise.... but dramatic license can take you only so far.

[Sava]

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

I had the same problem with the HItler mini-series... I kept yelling at the TV to the Nazis... WAIT TIL YOU GET TO RUSSIA!!

[Kramerman]

Originally posted by Trajanus
Vercingetorix you mean, or..?

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

yeah, thats the guy... seemed more difficult and weird before... oh well

[reds4ever]

Originally posted by Kramerman


yeah, thats the guy... seemed more difficult and weird before... oh well

Then in answer to your original question, no, they killed him!

[Kramerman]

Originally posted by reds4ever


Then in answer to your original question, no, they killed him!

really? then who led the celts in that famous battle (cant recall the name) were caesar seiged the hill top, but then he himself was seiged by celts from the surrounding area?

[reds4ever]

Kramer

I haven't seen the series but Vercingetorix was defeated by Caesar and executed after the battle, I'm not sure what went on before that

[GePap]

Vercingetorix was brought back to Rome and was part of Caesars triumphal parade into the city. So that at least is correct.

[Traianvs]

Vercingetorix was beaten at Alesia (which is a celtic oppidum in France). Indeed a relief force was sent to surround Caesar, but he managed to hold it, despite the huge length of his palisade which his troops had to defend. He built up a nasty system of defenses in front of his palisade, including several deep trenches, spiked stars, pins in the ground, and the like which hindered the enemy greatly, so he could do with that small amount of troops (relatively spoken) against a majority of Gauls.

After V figured out they would be starved he surrendered and was taken along in Caesars triumph at Rome, I think

[Kramerman]

ok, thanks

[Sprayber]

Originally posted by Kramerman


really? then who led the celts in that famous battle (cant recall the name) were caesar seiged the hill top, but then he himself was seiged by celts from the surrounding area?

Are you asking about when they had captured him earlier in the village and then Caesar let him go only to find out that it was him that was leading the Guals later on? If you are, I think that was just artistic license. Kind of a pay back to when Pompey saved him years before. Though I'm far from an expert on the matter.

[Kramerman]

Originally posted by Sprayber



Are you asking about when they had captured him earlier in the village and then Caesar let him go only to find out that it was him that was leading the Guals later on? If you are, I think that was just artistic license. Kind of a pay back to when Pompey saved him years before. Though I'm far from an expert on the matter.

yeah, thats what i was originally asking about, thanks. I figured that didnt really happen, or perhaps Caesar wrote he did that in his memoirs but there being nothing to back that up.

[Agathon]

What did they translate his dying words as?

"Even you my child?" or "You too Brutus?"

Note: only one of these is correct.

[Space05us]

Also I disliked the actor who played Caesar.

woohoo! finally someone agrees with me! They should have had someone with a more manly looking playing Caesar and Marc Antony. I couldnt bare to see such powerful people being so small, I couldnt help but shouting "Woman!!". Not to mention the guy playing Caesar put WAY too much effort into sounding important, he really overplayed the part.


another thing I hated about the movie was how the director tried to make Caesar look overly important by making him have more colour than everyone else in the battle scene. OOh! another horrible thing about it! The parades where Pompey, and then Caesar return to Rome were waaaaay too obviously computer generated. Also the finally battle scene at Alesia (sp?) when they zoomed out was absolute disgustingly revoltingly horrible. Notice how everyone was computer generated and wavy a sword in the air? it looked like a huge porcupine.
ooh, ooh! ANOTHER reason to hate it, it was WAAAAY historicaly inaccurate.

okay I'll stop babbling now, I need food.

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.

people like to watch fire, it was a show put on for tv.
the Roman cavalry in the movie/mini series were indeed using a gladius, in real life they used a sword just a bit longer than the gladius though it was very similar in appearance.


I have a question for those of you who know Roman history better than myself, whats up with the leather armour? I thought the Romans had metal armor.

[Sprayber]

Originally posted by Agathon
What did they translate his dying words as?

"Even you my child?" or "You too Brutus?"

Note: only one of these is correct.

I believe it was the later but I'm not for sure. During that particular instant someone called in the phone. Perhaps someone else could say. I think he mentioned his name...

[Kramerman]

I have a question for those of you who know Roman history better than myself, whats up with the leather armour? I thought the Romans had metal armor.

IIRC, at caesars time they were using chain mail. later on they used lorica segmentata, which was the height of roman armor (really cool stuff, im not sure how effective it was tho).