*wonders how she could possibly overlook answering that comment*
I saw a trailer for Empire the other day, while in the middle of Rome, and for half a second I wondered whether it was a stupid translation of Rome (sometimes the way we translate titles is quite, quite beyond me), and a few images later made it abundantly clear that I really did not want to be watching it. Especially not after Rome.
I know so little about those times, apart from what Shakespeare did with the characters. I did not even realise we'd get Octavian vs. Mark Anthony, which, duh. My brain can be slow on the uptake sometimes, clearly. I'm very much looking forward to that, then. Has a second season been greenlighted then? I heard it might not happen because, despite its success, the show was costing HBO entirely too much. That would be a shame.
Exactly, yes, that's also why they're so good. They're just those two guys, their "everyman-ness" is it exactly. And their character arcs are simply amazing. Where Lucius's honour and moral code takes him, and how much Titus learns... The scene in the arena had me on the edge of my seat and possibly shedding a tear or two dammit I'm so easy when I realised that they might just kill him. They might just. And his loyalty to the thirteenth, now, after everything... hard to believe this is the same man that was flogged and imprisoned in the first episode. There's nothing like a battle lost in advance, and almost won, to get to me. And the fact that I actually believed it was possible that Lucius would just let him be killed... chilling, and heartwrenching, and oh how I love those boys.
And I might just be ranting, sorry. *shuts self up*
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Date: 2005-12-30 04:41 am (UTC)I saw a trailer for Empire the other day, while in the middle of Rome, and for half a second I wondered whether it was a stupid translation of Rome (sometimes the way we translate titles is quite, quite beyond me), and a few images later made it abundantly clear that I really did not want to be watching it. Especially not after Rome.
I know so little about those times, apart from what Shakespeare did with the characters. I did not even realise we'd get Octavian vs. Mark Anthony, which, duh. My brain can be slow on the uptake sometimes, clearly. I'm very much looking forward to that, then. Has a second season been greenlighted then? I heard it might not happen because, despite its success, the show was costing HBO entirely too much. That would be a shame.
Exactly, yes, that's also why they're so good. They're just those two guys, their "everyman-ness" is it exactly. And their character arcs are simply amazing. Where Lucius's honour and moral code takes him, and how much Titus learns... The scene in the arena had me on the edge of my seat
and possibly shedding a tear or two dammit I'm so easywhen I realised that they might just kill him. They might just. And his loyalty to the thirteenth, now, after everything... hard to believe this is the same man that was flogged and imprisoned in the first episode. There's nothing like a battle lost in advance, and almost won, to get to me. And the fact that I actually believed it was possible that Lucius would just let him be killed... chilling, and heartwrenching, and oh how I love those boys.And I might just be ranting, sorry. *shuts self up*