I really don't know what they're thinking with the sex scenes; it's not even just that they're unerotic, it's that they just seem like afterthoughts. As they feel that you need at least four of them every episode in case we forget that the Romans were voracious on all fronts but can't be bothered to write them really into the story.
I thought the Antony and the Senate scenes were really well done. It's that sort of stuff that has me keep watching (well, that an my interest in the subject). But I don't think they're very good at writing women or at least ambitious women and given that women play such a big part in this story they really ought to get their act together. And maybe that's part of the sex issue: a quite remarkable amount of Atia's character time on screen seems to revolve around her sex life or her hitting Octavia (or whoring her out to Pompey).
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Date: 2005-09-05 11:15 am (UTC)I thought the Antony and the Senate scenes were really well done. It's that sort of stuff that has me keep watching (well, that an my interest in the subject). But I don't think they're very good at writing women or at least ambitious women and given that women play such a big part in this story they really ought to get their act together. And maybe that's part of the sex issue: a quite remarkable amount of Atia's character time on screen seems to revolve around her sex life or her hitting Octavia (or whoring her out to Pompey).