I am just really disappointed its over and don’t know how much hope I have for the pirate series that they advertised during.
stupid NetFlix stopped carrying it. so maybe I won’t watch it!
I could be wrong, but wasn’t the pirate series produced by Michael “even Uwe Boll Film School kicked me out” Bay?
If so, I’d rather watch 2 girls 1 cup.
One could at least pretend it’s artsy.
I dunno who produced it. I didn’t think it looked great though. The series Vikings on History (I think) may make a solid replacement if they will show the reruns. My whole office is watching it right now.
I loved every second of it.
Fucking awesome show.
I don’t think the writers had much choice in how people died as it was based on history?
There seems to be a fair amount of flexibility within historical accounts so as they did have some options, especially with how and who died, but they did a pretty good job keeping with some history in there and not straying too far.
[quote]bpick86 wrote:
I dunno who produced it. I didn’t think it looked great though. The series Vikings on History (I think) may make a solid replacement if they will show the reruns. My whole office is watching it right now.[/quote]
game of thornes …
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[quote]bpick86 wrote:
I dunno who produced it. I didn’t think it looked great though. The series Vikings on History (I think) may make a solid replacement if they will show the reruns. My whole office is watching it right now.[/quote]
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Vikings is pretty good.
While I will always have a soft spot in my heart for Tyrion Lannister and his shenagigans, I could not help but notice that not a single fuck was given in “Vikings”.
That is at least 0.5 less fucks than were given on “Games of Thrones”.
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[quote]Aggv wrote:
[quote]bpick86 wrote:
I dunno who produced it. I didn’t think it looked great though. The series Vikings on History (I think) may make a solid replacement if they will show the reruns. My whole office is watching it right now.[/quote]
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Vikings is pretty good.
While I will always have a soft spot in my heart for Tyrion Lannister and his shenagigans, I could not help but notice that not a single fuck was given in “Vikings”.
That is at least 0.5 less fucks than were given on “Games of Thrones”. [/quote]
Vikings is good, although it lacks boobs. Not sure what you mean by “fucks given” ?
[quote]Aggv wrote:
[quote]orion wrote:
[quote]Aggv wrote:
[quote]bpick86 wrote:
I dunno who produced it. I didn’t think it looked great though. The series Vikings on History (I think) may make a solid replacement if they will show the reruns. My whole office is watching it right now.[/quote]
game of thornes …[/quote]
Vikings is pretty good.
While I will always have a soft spot in my heart for Tyrion Lannister and his shenagigans, I could not help but notice that not a single fuck was given in “Vikings”.
That is at least 0.5 less fucks than were given on “Games of Thrones”. [/quote]
Vikings is good, although it lacks boobs. Not sure what you mean by “fucks given” ? [/quote]
Oh, a holy place.
Lets kill the monks and plunder it.
That is serious “not giving a fuck”.
I gotta get HBO again apparently so I can jump on this game of thrones thing.
Da Vinci’s Demons is pretty good so far, basing that on the fact that most new shows start off slowly just building a solid base. Plus, the female lead reminds me of Angelina Jolie and has been naked in both episodes so far.
Just finished watching the show from beginning to end in about 10 days (the best way to watch any show). It spares you from all the BS regarding production, script, weekly waiting, and general gossip regarding the show. The ignorance regarding “fan favorites” and other things of the that nature makes the show all the more enticing without having other people’s opinions in the back of the head.
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First of all, RIP to the original actor who played Spartacus. I’m extremely curious how the show would look like if either actor played the role through all seasons.
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Loved how they decided not to drag the thing out for like 8 seasons. It was the perfect length. Even though it was from unusual circumstance, I loved the prequel season after season one and the eventual union of the two plot lines.
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This show definitely turns the definition of badass up a notch. Crixus, Oenamaus, Gannicus, Spartacus, Lugo, Saxa… Take your pick.
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If Saxa is not the perfect woman, I don’t know who is.
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The fighting sequences, the kills, the blood, even the sex scenes were played out extremely well IMO. The only things I would change is the when they take a shot of the crowd in the arena, and someone’s boobs are always hanging out. Ok fine… but not necessary. That and the repeated sex scenes between the same characters (Crassus/Kore and Lucretia/Quintus comes to mind among others).
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Other than that, the story line was extremely well done. And it was realistic in the sense that, well, it was real (to a degree). I can totally believe Spartacus beating the odds all those times he was supposed to die since he was literally trained to become a killing machine.
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I don’t see how one could like Game of Thrones and not like this show.
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The one thing I would change is to somehow see Spartacus live. Based on the historical account (from wikipedia) his body was never found.
Overall, easily in the top 5 show ever made. The only reason Game of Thrones is better is because of the books. If The Walking Dead adopted this level of gore, and made it so the series lasted only maybe 3-4 seasons, it would be the perfect show.
This show as definitely bad ass!
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Let me start this with “John Hannah was a real bad ass of an actor in S1!!” It was a thing of beauty how he performed the role of Batiatus…
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I really enjoyed the original Spartacus actor (R.I.P.) but this new guy made it watchable. He did perform better as the series went along, because he probably didn’t get inside the character at the start… What do you think? The character at times was made out to be this “all-knowing” and “never make wrong” -type of person, which was irritating at times. I would had expected few mistakes from his part, while giving his generals (Crixus, Agron and Gannicus) some more time to shine…
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Crixus as a character was well written. I did have a “wtf” moment when he put up with the bat-shit crazy Naevia antics for a while… Manu did a good job portraying Crixus throughout the series.
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Gannicus was the clear fan favorite. Why not? Who of the men would not like to live a life like his? Having sex with most beautiful women, killing fuckers, while looking good doing it. He was care-free and did not give a flying fuck about what happened around him - although it was not entirely true. The guy was struggling within himself, because he really did care… Great acting and great character!
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I kind of liked how they brought up Caesar and Crassus. They were both interesting characters and could make for a proper spin-off in the future, since Crassus and Pompey became the consuls of Rome after defeating Spartacus. It could be interesting to see the rise of Caesar to become the unquestioned leader of Rome…
Did anyone else find it funny, that every time the gladiators killed/gave killing blow to Romans, they would scream their ass off?? And I mean every fucking time…
P.S. Saxa was the epitome of hottest girl on the planet. She was hot, athletic, not to mess with, open to group fun and made sure that her man was satisfied.
[quote]NuYi wrote:
- I really enjoyed the original Spartacus actor (R.I.P.) but this new guy made it watchable. He did perform better as the series went along, because he probably didn’t get inside the character at the start… What do you think? The character at times was made out to be this “all-knowing” and “never make wrong” -type of person, which was irritating at times. I would had expected few mistakes from his part, while giving his generals (Crixus, Agron and Gannicus) some more time to shine…
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Agreed on all points. But this is why I have a hard time reconciling the character of Spartacus between the two actors. The original never led soldiers in the field of battle, and the new one never fought in the arena for glory. I think Whitfield would not be so all knowing in quest for freedom, since we see his own internal struggles in the house of Batiatus, nor would he act so smoothly in the face of adversity.
[quote]IFlashBack wrote:
[quote]NuYi wrote:
- I really enjoyed the original Spartacus actor (R.I.P.) but this new guy made it watchable. He did perform better as the series went along, because he probably didn’t get inside the character at the start… What do you think? The character at times was made out to be this “all-knowing” and “never make wrong” -type of person, which was irritating at times. I would had expected few mistakes from his part, while giving his generals (Crixus, Agron and Gannicus) some more time to shine…
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Agreed on all points. But this is why I have a hard time reconciling the character of Spartacus between the two actors. The original never led soldiers in the field of battle, and the new one never fought in the arena for glory. I think Whitfield would not be so all knowing in quest for freedom, since we see his own internal struggles in the house of Batiatus, nor would he act so smoothly in the face of adversity. [/quote]
Was his “do-gooder” side not covered when they had him say he didn’t want to turn out to be no worse than the Romans? I agree it was annoying (Crixus thought so, too), but it did add some strife to the storyline. I got the feeling that the actor wasn’t quite good enough to express this properly, although he did a good job as a stand-in to let the series finish.
As for the screaming, I literally loled whenever they did this towards the end. They just REALLY FUCKING LOVED killing Romans, I suppose.
[quote]Diddy Ryder wrote:
[quote]IFlashBack wrote:
[quote]NuYi wrote:
- I really enjoyed the original Spartacus actor (R.I.P.) but this new guy made it watchable. He did perform better as the series went along, because he probably didn’t get inside the character at the start… What do you think? The character at times was made out to be this “all-knowing” and “never make wrong” -type of person, which was irritating at times. I would had expected few mistakes from his part, while giving his generals (Crixus, Agron and Gannicus) some more time to shine…
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Agreed on all points. But this is why I have a hard time reconciling the character of Spartacus between the two actors. The original never led soldiers in the field of battle, and the new one never fought in the arena for glory. I think Whitfield would not be so all knowing in quest for freedom, since we see his own internal struggles in the house of Batiatus, nor would he act so smoothly in the face of adversity. [/quote]
Was his “do-gooder” side not covered when they had him say he didn’t want to turn out to be no worse than the Romans? I agree it was annoying (Crixus thought so, too), but it did add some strife to the storyline. I got the feeling that the actor wasn’t quite good enough to express this properly, although he did a good job as a stand-in to let the series finish.
As for the screaming, I literally loled whenever they did this towards the end. They just REALLY FUCKING LOVED killing Romans, I suppose.[/quote]
I think they did a good job with the writing of the Crixus and Spartacus because they had to set up the contrast in idealogy (which they did throughout every season) that would lead to the split. As far as the acting, I just think it took the new guy a while to get into the character and ,having not been a part of the first season, a little while to grasp the dynamic between Spartacus and Crixus. I thought by the last season he had a solid grasp on that. Also, by the time Nivea got through with her crap I was beginning to dislike Crixus in the last season but both of them redeemed themselves to me in the end. And did anyone else notice that they essentially bookended Gannicus’s role in the rebellion with crucifixion. He got into the rebellion after feeling some guilt over the crucifixion death of the whore that Ashur caught which led him to kidnap Illithyia, and then his rebellion was brought to an end with his own crucifixion.