Just started watching Rome on HBO max. Crazy seeing younger version of actors and actresses playing in a similar world like they did in Game of Thrones.
Just rewatched after a long time after I found the series on Blu ray for 5 bucks. So much good stuff in that show. Would be interested to hear your thoughts. One fun fact I learned is that Titus Pullo and Lucius Vorenus were the only two soldiers mentioned by name in Caesars history of the gaul campaign. They supposedly had a fierce rivalry over who was the better soldier and the series creators used that as inspiration for the characters.
- typical big brother, little brother relationship between the two. They’re cool - Hindsight, they had so much more potential with the show. It could’ve have been an ongoing anthology series with all the rich history of Ancient Rome .
Is Rome a show I should start or am I gonna be pissed off because it’s left hanging after two seasons and HBO decided to cancel it?
Yeah plenty of good stories could have been mined but it was too expensive and wouldn't sell enough tshirts
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Pretty sure the pilot of Rome is the most expensive TV episode in history. It was a good show but way too pricey to keep going.
Yep, basically a Citadel level financial flop for HBO at the time. I’m not critically comparing those two series either, but Rome was on that Wire and Deadwood popularity at the time. Critically acclaimed but hadn’t reached that untouchable HBO status. Although the ROI that Amazon is going to get off acquiring some Tolkien rights and LOTR original programming is going to probably be one of the biggest tv/movie media disasters ever. Paid way too much to begin with, then produce shit.
Watched it last night. Never read the book, but my casual observer feeling is that it seems pretty underwhelming and the none of the characters drew me in.
Nice of them all to raise their prices during the middle of a strike when new content will be way down for awhile.
From had some good parts, I definitely enjoyed the "monsters". But overall I found it painfully boring and the acting is just so bad.
I thought Boyd and Donna were great, the rest I can agree with. There were a lot of frustrating parts of people just not talking, leaving mid sentence, Victor most of the time, etc. Spoiler The voice talking back to Jim on the radio gave me the fucking willies, didn't see that coming Trying to keep the weird vibes going, started Dark last night. Heard nothing but great things.
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Trying to download some shows for a flight this evening and can’t find shit. Just want to finish 100 foot wave and the piece of shit max app won’t let me.
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