The one thing I really didn't like about last season was Cleopatra, which I felt has got to be the worst characterization *ever* of her.
Yes! I *hated* the way they portrayed her, not to mention it was totally inaccurate. They also got the set decoration etc. all wrong for ancient egypt too.
But they've made Octavian so calculating (which he surely was) that I am not sure that they will ever manage to give him a wild side.
ITA. They seemed to have based his characterization on his political success and the morality laws he did later, (I hope I'm remembering that correctly), and ignored his wild youth. Although they did have him sleep with his sister, which is certainly pretty wild.
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Date: 2007-01-18 03:02 am (UTC)Yes! I *hated* the way they portrayed her, not to mention it was totally inaccurate. They also got the set decoration etc. all wrong for ancient egypt too.
But they've made Octavian so calculating (which he surely was) that I am not sure that they will ever manage to give him a wild side.
ITA. They seemed to have based his characterization on his political success and the morality laws he did later, (I hope I'm remembering that correctly), and ignored his wild youth. Although they did have him sleep with his sister, which is certainly pretty wild.