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HBO's ROME
Aug. 31st, 2005 12:09 am[mood| 
enthralled]
Um, HBO's ROME ... I know that we just met and everything, and you're older than I am, but I just ... you know, I feel like we click ... and, well I'd really like to see you again.
Seriously, though ... I dug the pilot for this show. I'm sure that some of that love comes from the fact that it wasn't ABC's EMPIRE (because that show made my head hurt, really bad, like someone kicking me in the head with a steel-toed boot bad), but it was also just a really good show.
From what I could tell, it got the history right (um, the immaculate lower grooming of the female stars might've been a bit ... ah, modern, okay I'll just say it, they had Brazilian waxes), and the acting was fabulous, the sets magnificent, and the stars HAWT.
The Good:
1. Atia of the Julii. Polly Walker rocked the hell out of this role. Atia was strong, manipulative, charming, sexy, devious, mocking, uncompromising and for like a millisecond caring. She's like an ancient (and more ruthless) Julie Cooper-Nichol (or Ava Moore, Famke Janssen's wonderfully evil character on Nip/Tuck). I was mesmerized every time she was on screen, and I know I'm going to love to hate. Plus, she is very, very hot. And managed to have some ho!yay with Servillia. And so far ... often nude.
2. Octavian. I loved the portrayl of Octavian, very accurate from what I can remember of my ancient history. Intelligent, delicate, and arrogant. As someone on TWoP pointed out, he kind of reminded me of Draco Malfoy: Antiquity! Especially his little act of revenge after he's rescued. Good character, great acting, definately looking forward to seeing this character develop.
3. The sets. The hustle of bustle of Agora was nice to see, really gave a feel for the city of Rome, and not just palaces, and villa's and the Forum and whatnot. That being said, the sets for all of those places were lovely as well.
The Bad:
Not much here actually.
1. I pretty much hated the opening credits.
2. In the interest of far play, there needs to be more male nudity (because it's not far to make the ladies bare the whole burden, though I'm not complaining about that either).
3. Needs to work on the time/space thing a little. It seemed like people were moving around officially quickly, giving very little sense for the distances they had to cross to get places. It seemed like Brutus got from Gaul to Rome like the next day, as if he had an overnight flight or something, which was jarring.
Could put more in the good category, but I'm getting sleepy, so let's just say that everything I mention looking forward to seeing more of was also good.
Looking forward to seeing more: Marc Antony, Brutus (who was delightful), Verenus and Pullo, Caesar, and mostly because of the last scene she was in Octavia.
enthralled]Um, HBO's ROME ... I know that we just met and everything, and you're older than I am, but I just ... you know, I feel like we click ... and, well I'd really like to see you again.
Seriously, though ... I dug the pilot for this show. I'm sure that some of that love comes from the fact that it wasn't ABC's EMPIRE (because that show made my head hurt, really bad, like someone kicking me in the head with a steel-toed boot bad), but it was also just a really good show.
From what I could tell, it got the history right (um, the immaculate lower grooming of the female stars might've been a bit ... ah, modern, okay I'll just say it, they had Brazilian waxes), and the acting was fabulous, the sets magnificent, and the stars HAWT.
The Good:
1. Atia of the Julii. Polly Walker rocked the hell out of this role. Atia was strong, manipulative, charming, sexy, devious, mocking, uncompromising and for like a millisecond caring. She's like an ancient (and more ruthless) Julie Cooper-Nichol (or Ava Moore, Famke Janssen's wonderfully evil character on Nip/Tuck). I was mesmerized every time she was on screen, and I know I'm going to love to hate. Plus, she is very, very hot. And managed to have some ho!yay with Servillia. And so far ... often nude.
2. Octavian. I loved the portrayl of Octavian, very accurate from what I can remember of my ancient history. Intelligent, delicate, and arrogant. As someone on TWoP pointed out, he kind of reminded me of Draco Malfoy: Antiquity! Especially his little act of revenge after he's rescued. Good character, great acting, definately looking forward to seeing this character develop.
3. The sets. The hustle of bustle of Agora was nice to see, really gave a feel for the city of Rome, and not just palaces, and villa's and the Forum and whatnot. That being said, the sets for all of those places were lovely as well.
The Bad:
Not much here actually.
1. I pretty much hated the opening credits.
2. In the interest of far play, there needs to be more male nudity (because it's not far to make the ladies bare the whole burden, though I'm not complaining about that either).
3. Needs to work on the time/space thing a little. It seemed like people were moving around officially quickly, giving very little sense for the distances they had to cross to get places. It seemed like Brutus got from Gaul to Rome like the next day, as if he had an overnight flight or something, which was jarring.
Could put more in the good category, but I'm getting sleepy, so let's just say that everything I mention looking forward to seeing more of was also good.
Looking forward to seeing more: Marc Antony, Brutus (who was delightful), Verenus and Pullo, Caesar, and mostly because of the last scene she was in Octavia.
