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  • HBO's "Rome"

    Anyone else watching this?

    Amazing show, absolutely amazing. Right up there with "Deadwood".
    "My nation is the world, and my religion is to do good." --Thomas Paine
    "The subject of onanism is inexhaustable." --Sigmund Freud

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    Yeah, it's a good show
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    • #3
      Octavian is one chilling little bastard. It is easy to see him becoming Emperor.
      "My nation is the world, and my religion is to do good." --Thomas Paine
      "The subject of onanism is inexhaustable." --Sigmund Freud

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      • #4
        I downloaded the first 4 episodes so far... I don't get HBO

        I'm waiting to watch them until I get the first 6. The reason is, my parents want to see them also, I'm waiting for 6 because that's how many I can fit on a DVD and I will make a video DVD using nero so I can watch it on the TV instead of my PC.

        Although my mom is being a wuss and saying she doesn't know if she wants to see it because she heard there is much violence and bestiality in it.

        She gets squeamish sometimes, but I will get her to watch it.

        Is it good so far?
        To us, it is the BEAST.

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        • #5
          Bestiality? No.

          Sex? Yes.

          Violence? Damn right.

          Good? **** yes.
          "My nation is the world, and my religion is to do good." --Thomas Paine
          "The subject of onanism is inexhaustable." --Sigmund Freud

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          • #6
            We were getting HBO for free a month before 'Rome' began, then Con-cast scrambled the signal...

            d@mn...

            Then Con-cast switched Sfi-Fi to digital from analog. No more 'Battlestar Galactica.'

            double-d@mn...

            Getting both channels would have cost me at least $60 a month extra. We are on a tight budget - my wife lost her job and took one for less money...

            Thank goodness for DVDs. Too bad I have to wait a year though.
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            • #7
              Originally posted by Guynemer
              Octavian is one chilling little bastard. It is easy to see him becoming Emperor.
              Why does everyone decide to protray Octavian that way? The one sympathetic protrayal of Octavian I have seen in in I Claudius.
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              • #8
                Not entirely unsympathetic. He appears to be quite loyal to his friends and his sister, and recognizes that his mother is a complete hobag. He's just very calculating, a bit of a political savant. And apparently an ancient Roman lie detector.
                "My nation is the world, and my religion is to do good." --Thomas Paine
                "The subject of onanism is inexhaustable." --Sigmund Freud

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                • #9
                  The graffiti was hilarious in the last episode.
                  "In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed. But they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love. They had 500 years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
                  —Orson Welles as Harry Lime

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                  • #10
                    Re: HBO's "Rome"

                    Originally posted by Guynemer
                    Anyone else watching this?

                    Amazing show, absolutely amazing. Right up there with "Deadwood".
                    We don't have HBO at this house.
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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by MosesPresley
                      The graffiti was hilarious in the last episode.
                      In Turkey there's an old Roman city where these dudes scratched graffiti on the sidewalk, it was an advertisement for prositutes.
                      We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. - Abraham Lincoln

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                      • #12
                        Seeing the crucifictions whilest stoned has made me not want to watch the show...

                        But I'm sure I will
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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Ted Striker


                          In Turkey there's an old Roman city where these dudes scratched graffiti on the sidewalk, it was an advertisement for prositutes.
                          Hmmmm. Now I'm going to have to pay closer attention to the local graffiti.
                          "In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed. But they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love. They had 500 years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
                          —Orson Welles as Harry Lime

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                          • #14
                            yeah and in Pompeii there are fallos-shaped stones on the street as signs to where the brothels were
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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Guynemer
                              And apparently an ancient Roman lie detector.

                              "Cut off his thumbs."

                              Wow...

                              Octavian is my favorite character in the series. Excellent show to date. I actually look forward to each new episode...a rarity for me these days in TV.
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