Spartacus :Blood and Sex ..I mean Sand

[IdolEyes787]

^^^ Perv

Anyway, my boxset came yesterday. So far I've only watched Disc 1. I can feel the pace picking up after the 3rd episode. Acting still hasn't improved. We'll see what happens as the episodes progress.

Erin Cummings ...

Ironic thing is that I'm hardly what you would consider a porn guy . I just find it mildly offensive the way that a lot of US shows sell sex but hypocritically cocktease it the whole time so as not to enrage ( or lose the ad revenue from) the holier than thou, blood is OK but skin isn't , Middle American ,gun-toting, kill the bastards if they don't agree with us , zealots.( Not that you were being serious )

As for Erin Cummings ever seen Bitch Slap ? Kind of interesting in an unhinged Tarantino sort of way and I believe that clocker gave it a thumbs up.

[Snee]

^^^ Perv

Anyway, my boxset came yesterday. So far I've only watched Disc 1. I can feel the pace picking up after the 3rd episode. Acting still hasn't improved. We'll see what happens as the episodes progress.

Erin Cummings ...

Ironic thing is that I'm hardly what you would consider a porn guy . I just find it mildly offensive the way that a lot of US shows sell sex but hypocritically cocktease it the whole time so as not to enrage ( or lose the ad revenue from) the holier than thou, blood is OK but skin isn't , Middle American ,gun-toting, kill the bastards if they don't agree with us , zealots.( Not that you were being serious )

As for Erin Cummings ever seen Bitch Slap ? Kind of interesting in an unhinged Tarantino sort of way and I believe that clocker gave it a thumbs up.

He would, fan of the mindless action flick that he is.


As for Spartacus, I've seen the first season, and up to episode V of the prequel.

The good:

*Lucy Lawless nearly being a serious actress.
*Hot chix with noods.
*I can actually imagine that ancient Rome might have been that way, wrt the value they put on human lives, and the intriguing douchebags, not to mention the decadence. So, uhm, a measure of historical accuracy.

The bad:

*The terrible effects added to the fighting, mainly the blood splashes. That doesn't add to the credibility one iota.
*The writing. Who's bad and who's good sometimes feels very black and white. Although not all the time. And some of the situations people get into seem odd. But wtf do I know, I didn't exactly grow up in ancient Rome.
*Sometimes things seem to be written in purely for shock value. Shocking people is fine, but being obvious about it I don't particularily like

The funny:

*The roman english. I mean, I can see why they're doing it, or at least I think I do. Ie, they're trying to show a people who've adopted mannerisms that don't always ring true to their nature. But it often sounds silly.
*Batiatus. I mean, I'm not saying they casted him badly, but sometimes I forget myself and smile at who's saying all those things.
*How some characters are just too extreme to feel real.
*It makes me all varm and fuzzy inside thinking of all the moralfags who must be having aneurysms over the show.

I could go on, I suppose. But to sum it up, I quite like it. It's not the best thing I've seen by far, and if they do another turnabout and the second season gets cancelled, I'm not likely to miss it (ffs, they're gonna replace the actor playing the main character, if that's not a recipe for disaster I don't know what is), but it's watchable. For the women if nothing else.

[clocker]

So guys, if I say that I thought Rome was great, do you think I'd like this?

[IdolEyes787]

Hard to say as the two are definitely birds of a different feather.
Spartacus is like the gladiators portrayed within, all about the show and not overly concerned about making a mess in producing it .
Like Snee says more melodrama than rumination on ethics .

What if does have going for it besides the sex and violence is that the story charges ahead so briskly that you aren't given much time to worry about how silly the whole thing is.
Not an actor's series , not writer's series either, really more like Nascar with tits.

Anyway I think Rome was more or less a high point for this sort of thing, more interesting but less cerebral than I ,Claudius- F1 to Blood and Sands Nascar if you will .

Btw I've also watching the prequel and as I wrote on another site the fact that the series is so one-note ("Grr revenge.Jupiter's cawk you betrayed me .I'll be back to kill you just as soon as I have sex with that slave " ) , as entertaining as that one note may be is starting to show.

[clocker]

Hmm, maybe I'll give it another go.
Right after I inhaled Rome (in a two day marathon), I "obtained" Sparticus but only made it through half of the first episode.
Perhaps it's worth a second chance.

[IdolEyes787]

Hmm, maybe I'll give it another go.
Right after I inhaled Rome (in a two day marathon), I "obtained" Sparticus but only made it through half of the first episode.
Perhaps it's worth a second chance.

Everyone says the same thing that the show only really begins to kick in around the third episode .
The producers themselves admit that they didn't have sufficient prep time after being green-lit and that the first couple of episodes where more experimentation than finished product.
Anyway whether you want to invest that much time into something that you may end up not liking is entirely up to you.

[clocker]

Ill just start with episode 3 and see what happens.

[mr. nails]

imo, just start season 2 first and if u dig what's going on start season 1. doing this won't ruin anything and it will prob shape the story a lot better. also, the way season 2 is filmed it what season 1 shapes to be.

[iLOVENZB]

I enjoy watching one after the other instead of weekly intervals. I wait for the packs to come out.

Any news on when the Bluray of the prequel is set to be announced? Might look into getting a steel box if my purse allows me. [ See what I did there? ]

[Snee]

imo, just start season 2 first and if u dig what's going on start season 1. doing this won't ruin anything and it will prob shape the story a lot better. also, the way season 2 is filmed it what season 1 shapes to be.

So wait another six months or so, until season 2 starts airing? Oh, and what's the future like?

Hmm, maybe I'll give it another go.
Right after I inhaled Rome (in a two day marathon), I "obtained" Sparticus but only made it through half of the first episode.
Perhaps it's worth a second chance.

Everyone says the same thing that the show only really begins to kick in around the third episode .
The producers themselves admit that they didn't have sufficient prep time after being green-lit and that the first couple of episodes where more experimentation than finished product.
Anyway whether you want to invest that much time into something that you may end up not liking is entirely up to you.

I actually started off with the first four episodes of the prequel, which I downloaded on a whim. When I ran out of those I was hooked already.

Watching through the initial episodes wasn't much of a bother then, though it took me a while to like Spartacus himself as a character. But on the flipside, watching the prequel first gave Crixus a little depth. Like the man from the future above is probably trying to say, it gets better that way. Especially since the last episode of the prequel should be available any time now.