Agreed! And weren’t Pullo and Vorenus actual historical figures in the Leigon?
That’s another really cool thing - those two guys were just mentioned, kind of in an off-hand fashion, in one of Julius Caesar’s works (if I remember correctly), with essentially no detail, and apparently the writers picked up on them as kind of blank canvas they could use to advance that end of their tale. And with that they did a masterful job.
The scene of Pullo walking down a crowded Roman street with the young son he rescued in Egypt was just such a fitting end to the series (as much as I hated to see it end).
Excellent characters but fictitious. I had to buy season 1 and 2. The scene where Marc Antony is laying down the terms to Brutus and Cassius after Ceasar's murder was the show stopper, the very best scene of an excellent series.