Rome!

[lesbiassparrow]

This would totally have been a much better hour of TV if they hadn't had the nekkid women. And I'm not sticking that behind a spoiler cut because this is HBO and HBO always has the naked women and I can't believe that's a spoiler to anyone. The sex scenes were really kind of rubbish and poorly thought out, though the rest was fun. And hooray for creepy Octavian!

ETA: Er..I do totally have deep and meaningful thoughts about this show and am not all shallow and going 'oooh doesn't Rome look nice' but I can't seem to forumulate them at the moment.

Comments

[morwen_peredhil]

I didn't mind the nekkid women at all, but I'd like to request an equal number of attractive nekkid men. Just to be fair.

[platypush.livejournal.com]

They definitely needed more naked men. That's not spoilery either, just a fact.

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the naked backside of a Gaulish cheiftain was certainly not adequate compensation for the female nudity. And it wasn't the nudity really, just the way those scenes felt shoe-horned into the show because they are showing Ye Olde Rome and felt that they need to show the (poorly lit) carnal lusts of Roman maidens.

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

And that should be matrons, not maidens because everyone knows maidens can't have sex and be maidens still...

[platypush.livejournal.com]

You know what bothered me more than the female nudity? The fact that in ancient Rome, apparently they all had neatly trimmed bikini waxes. Because, really? I don't think so.

I do know what you mean about not being able to formulate coherent thoughts - I think I need to see a few more episodes before I get into any kind of analysis. But I loved Atia (mostly because I really like Polly Walker), and I liked her son as well. Felt bad for her daughter.

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

They did have mad amounts of depilitaries and cosmetics though...but I think that they were probably more for the tarts than the matrons and I'm not sure how neat they could be (and I bet they were more likely to be horribly painful than anything). I'm thinking that they're going to go the I, Claudius route and have the matrons be mad sex-mad tarts so doubtless they'd think it's worth the pain and effort?

And if it's going to be naked women hour, then I want naked (attractive) men hour as well.

[morwen_peredhil]

Indeed. I vote for naked James Purefoy next week.

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

We totally need the lupercalia because then we'd have tons of naked men. We better get it too, because that's when a nearly naked Antony offers the crown to Caesar and I feel that is surely the most pivotal scene in all of Roman history.

[queenofthorns.livejournal.com]

I hope it is not a spoiler to say that Marc Anthony is portrayed as quite the young man about town - ahem! (I saw the second episode also during the premiere I went to...)

[morwen_peredhil]

Now that's the kind spoiler I like, if spoiler it is. Now I'm really looking forward to next Sunday! It'll almost make up for the lack of Sci Fi Friday.

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

I'll join you in the spoiler liking. Not that I am watching Rome for anything other than highly cultured motives. No interest at all in nekkid men, nope, not me.