HBOs "Rome"

[Homie]

hehe, thanks but I'm fine as is. Episode 12 came out today, I just downloaded it. Will Brutus be able to overturn Ceasar? Don't tell me, I don't know the history THAT well, and I'm glad, because it wouldn't be as fun if I knew the outcome.

 

[Kafka2]

Last week's episode featured the largest penis I've ever seen on anything that walks on its hind legs. Im not sure if it was historically significant, but it damned well should have been.

 

[Homie]

Yes, that sure was a big penis, they don't leave anything to the imagination in Rome. But that was an image I could do without. To you history wizzes out there, how much is history and how much is made up?

 

[Xen]

not so much made up as over emphisized, IMO; alot of what they show is technically accurate, but more then a little of it is "over emphisized", and some things, mostlly those things involving Titus Pullo and Vorenus are just made up entirelly.

 

[Homie]

mostlly those things involving Titus Pullo and Vorenus are just made up entirelly.

I guessed that, or that they were based on some figures that was barely mentioned and then built a story around them. But I am glad they put them in, they are lovable characters and provide comic relief.

 

[Xen]

well, they are the only two regular troopers emtioned by Caesar in his commentaries; hence they must have been somwhat extraordinary individuals.

 

[Asclepius]

[...] they were based on some figures that was barely mentioned and then built a story around them. [...].

Yup, T.Pullo and L. Vorenus were real people mentioned very briefly in De bello Gallico Book 5 Chapter 44:

Perseus: The Gallic Wars 5.44

XLIV. Erant in ea legione fortissimi viri, centuriones, qui primis ordinibus appropinquarent, Titus Pullo et Lucius Vorenus.

XLIV. In that legion there were two very brave men, centurions, who were now approaching the first ranks, T. Pulfio, and L. Varenus.

 

[pawpaw]

Will there be a second season of Rome? Chris Albrecht, CEO of HBO says the renewal of Rome for a second season was to " Hold the cast " in CASE of a second season, not to GUARANTEE a second season. A script order for a " handful " of episodes was ordered, not a season's worth. It has done well on BBC in the ratings but not so for HBO. It cost an arm & a leg to produce, 13 episodes costing as much as the LOTR's trilogy rather than 13 T.V. episodes. this is why the wait till 2007, rather than starting in 2006.

Bummer

 

[Xen]

well in all fairness, considering HBO stands for "Home Box Office" I would think they could stomach the burden of an LOTR

of course, they best be making a new segment of the Rome series, or else the'll be seeign the buisness end of my Gladius!