Rome: Season2 roundup(spoilers, damnit)

[Tattila the Hun]

Originally posted by Datajack Franit
HOW can there be spoilers in an historical-based tv series

Well, the main historical events are of course spoiled allready, apart from few exaggerations for dramatic effect. But Rome really isn't about the major players, it's about people like Pullo and Vorenus, the common blokes, and their supposed role in the events. Like Vorenus' absence from Caesar's side, resulting in the assassination, or that Pullo might in fact be the father of Caesarion, Cleopatra's son. It's not about history, or the state, it's about the people who make the state.

It's also about fanservice.

[Eli]

Btw, I have a few questions about the first season:

1) Why the **** does Cato look much older than Caesar while Cicero looks younger? It should be the other way around.
2) Octavian did not sleep with his sister.
3) Why does in one of the episodes Caesar says something along the lines of "we military men shouldn't interfere in religious matters", when he's the freaking Pontifex Maximus?
4) Isn't Atia supposed to be the ideal Roman matron, at least according to Tacitus? Why is she such a slut?

[One_more_turn]

5) Octavian didn't go to Gaul, he went to Spain to join Caesar.
6) Octavia was not married to that loser in Season 1, she was married to a Consul named Marcellus. She had a son with him also named Marcellus who was later made a successor to Augustus.
7) Atia was remarried to another Consul, Philippus, after the death of Gaius Octavius, Octavian's father.
8) Cleopatra was in Rome when Caesar was assassinated.
9) Octavian was not in Rome when Caesar was assassinated. He was sent by Caesar to the Roman military base in Apollonia as part of Caesar's invasion force against Parthia.
10) There was no Quintus Pompey, but another Gnaeus Pompey who committed suicide after losing to Caesar at Munda.

[Arrian]

#4 - Because being the "ideal Roman matron" means being a slut?

-Arrian

[Eli]

Thank you, One_more_turn.

Also, in one of the first episodes Pompey was sitting in the Consular chair and was asked by I don't remember who why the second Consular chair, which was supposed to be manned by Caesar, is empty. Well, neither Pompey nor Caesar were consuls in that year, and they never were consuls together.

Also, Sextus Pompeius deserved at least some mention.

Bleh.

Well, I watched the BBC mini-series and it was much worse. They didn't even show the second ring of fortifications in Alesia and when that tribune(Octavius?) vetoed Ti. Gracchus' agrarian law they showed Gracchus leaping and asking "can he do that?!".

[BeBMan]

Originally posted by One_more_turn
5) Octavian didn't go to Gaul, he went to Spain to join Caesar.
6) Octavia was not married to that loser in Season 1, she was married to a Consul named Marcellus. She had a son with him also named Marcellus who was later made a successor to Augustus.
7) Atia was remarried to another Consul, Philippus, after the death of Gaius Octavius, Octavian's father.
8) Cleopatra was in Rome when Caesar was assassinated.
9) Octavian was not in Rome when Caesar was assassinated. He was sent by Caesar to the Roman military base in Apollonia as part of Caesar's invasion force against Parthia.
10) There was no Quintus Pompey, but another Gnaeus Pompey who committed suicide after losing to Caesar at Munda.

Well, it's not a documentary. And there were several not too unimportant guys named Quintus Pompey, although not in the timeframe of "Rome", season 1.

[reds4ever]

Its a soap opera set in ancient Rome. Who gives a monkies if it's not 100% accurate?

[BeBMan]

Commodus also wasn't killed by Maximus in the arena. He was murdered in a bath.

[Sava]

Maximus

[Guynemer]

Holy ****.

Poor Vorenus.



Antony kicks so much ****ing ass.

[Kassiopeia]

Vorenus' Very Bad Day The mess he's in is going to make this a very interesting season.

I feel kind of fortunate that I know general things about the era the show is set in, but not enough to be annoyed by any artistic licence.

[Guynemer]

Likewise.

[Sava]

My favorite part:

Antony: I'm not getting out of this bed until I've ****ed something.

Attia: (to servant) Go and fetch that German slut!







I want some German sluts.

[reds4ever]

Attia

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by TheStinger
What does a North African speaking Latin sound like or a bloke form Gaul etc.

Because English accents are much better at denoting class than American accents.