Posted on 03/23/2007 5:03:13 PM PDT by veronica
This Sunday is the final episode. Ever.
I absolutely love the mini series.
It has really ignited more of an interest in that time period for me. I just finished watching Quo Vadis. Imagine what those people went thru being used as human candles, killed by wild animals just because they were Christians.
One thing I found interesting was that Muslims have historically killed people if they didn't convert to their fake religion. Imagine these early Christians not giving up their faith when they were confronted with death.
oh that makes me so sad
Robert Graves wrote about Rome, and the mini series about Claudius' life was pretty fun to watch. I actually bought the collection.
Rome seems like an upgrade of that "I Claudius" production with a lot more blood, swearing, and other things. Most especially, it is very fun to watch.
The Season is simply too short in my opinion. I just love watching it.
Caesar si viveret, ad remum dareris.
It hasn't been cancelled, it's just ending. It was designed to run as long as it has and no further. By the end of the next episode, most of the main characters will be dead.
But I think they should keep it going into Augustus' reign and "I, Claudius" territory, with their different spin on things as opposed to Robert Graves'. Or, they should jump ahead three hundred years and do the history of Constantine and his family - there's plenty of juicy, hitherto untapped scandal and bloodshed there.
A large segment of the modern Western world has reverted back to paganism. What we have to show for it is the daily killing of babies for any reason or for no reason. If we, as a society, can't get the question as to the sanctity oh human life right, then we can't hope to get anything right. This makes our society just as barbaric as the ancient world. When society is able to concede that abortion is wrong, in fact a horrible evil, then all other problems of society will start to melt away. As long as abortion is accepted as noble and right, we can expect that the spiritual condition of mankind will get progressively worse.
I thought they were just stopping production. It's my favorite show. :(
Rome is a prequel of course. I like the perspective of the two soldiers and life in the common neighborhoods.
According to Wikipedia, and we know how inaccurate that piece of trash can be, those two actually existed and were legendary friends who started out as bitter rivals.
I'm hooked on the show though you definitely get the feeling that hollywood(?)/hbo is once again doing its best to impose its morality, or lack thereof, on people who lived 2,000 years ago. I suspect those ancients were slightly more inhibited than hollywood would like us to believe.
A world that was fine if you toed the line.
A pity if you were a Cathar, though.
From what I've read, it was not designed to end, the bean counters caught up with it.
I love the show, but it has become rather silly this year.
...or a Dacian catamite! Yikes!
I've never watched this series mainly because it was an HBO production. I've never watched the Sopranos either or Sex in the City. I don't do serials. The only program I ever watched that was produced by HBO was Band of Brothers, and that wasn't until it came on the History Channel. I'm a history buff, but just couldn't bring myself to watch it on HBO. I guess there is an advantage to not watching it, since I don't have to be bummed out now that its cancelled.
I think it was intended to go for at least three seasons, but HBO decided at some point that it was just too expensive so they've been forced to race through a lot of material very quickly to wrap it up. The whole third season should have been Anthony and Cleopatra and the final showdown with Octavian/Augustus instead of just last episode and this next one. Whole plot threads, such as the Jewish guy, have just vanished.
It's my favorite dramatic show.
Completely inappropriate for the kids, but what a great collection of stories.
It wasn't cancelled. They just decided it was too expensive and decided that 2 seasons were enough. Its the most expensive television series ever I believe.
THIRTEEEENTH!!!!!!
The sets and costuming are fantastic, I can understand why the costs are prohibitive.
I love the show and have followed it with great enthusiasm over its two seasons. I was upset when I learned this would be the final season. True, this season they've accelerated the storyline almost to the point of being a joke, but it's still the most entertaining show on at the moment, IMO.
In Sunday's final episode, I'm hoping Pullo can sidestep Octavian's order to kill Caesarian, and instead, take the boy home with him as his son.
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