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You can't much more suggestive., and some of the video looked like something out of the Pompeii wall paintings.
No, all those murders, too violent.
They should go film the streets of London, where you can see an emipre falling for real.
The Passion of the Christ was violent too. Probably far more violent for than this minseries.
OHHH my!!!
The second sentence in the article reveals the extent of the author's knowledge of Roman history. The Roman Republic was nearing its end in 52 BC. The Roman Empire continued for another 500+ years, much longer if you include the Byzantine Empire as a continuation of Roman government with a different capital.
Putting on the boob-tube movies that depict the absolute very worst of the Romans and then adding its own depravity, a la Sleazywood, does its job well in its own way.
The Roman Empire WAS civilization at that time (Yeah, yeah, SPARE me the rhetoric about China and Indian please.) and it was great and noble in more ways that it was evil and depraved.
Bottom line: BBC = Garbage in and garbage out. They are steadily getting worse. Sometime they might be as sleazy, depraved and vicious as Sleazywood.
They DO try.
B = Bilge
B = Butthump
C = Crap
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It also sounds like they changed Atia a lot, as she was a doting mother who didn't want Octavius to lay claim to being Caesar's heir. I guess they wanted to make a character comparable to the Livia Drusilla as portrayed in "I, Claudius". But it still sounds like a good show.
Well being as how the Western Roman Empire lasted for another 500 years and the Eastern part, anogher 1500, it seems the writer is being quite flexible about the definition of dying days.
As much as I enjoy all things ancient, I also like a bit of historical accuracy thrown into the mix. This show seems more interested in portraying violence and sex (story telling devices that are acceptable in the proper context) than about telling the story of the fading of the glory of the Roman Empire.
...ah,......"Big-Brother"....re-writes (Christian-Judeo) history and TEACHES THE WORLD" via the "British-Darwin-Box"....
Hitler's "Darwin-Box".....the "Gas Chambers" showed full nudity too,....real sexy?
/extreme sarcasm
The Brits will tell us all about it while waiting in their High Priced 'Refinery' Petro-Stations...Filled up aready...?
They may not be historically accurate, but they serve their purpose by promoting the ideal that the left wing is shooting for.
Sounds like pornography with a little story thrown in.
I saw the previews. Looks promising.
I doubt it's any more violent than The Sopranos, their great series about modern day Romans...
...and I doubt the language is fouler than Deadwood, which was a great series.
One of the writers for "Rome" is John Milius ("Red Dawn"):
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0384766/fullcredits#writers
Official "Rome" web site:
http://www.hbo.com/rome
Errr, "dying days of the Roman Empire" involving a pair of legionaires returning to Rome from Gaul with Julius Caesar? Either the series writers or the fellow who penned this article have a major league ignorance of some basic history. Julius Caesar predated (and largely caused) the replacement of the Roman Republic with the reign of the emperors.
