Spartacus: Blood And Sand

[Svartalf]

I watch it, and to me it looks like some moron who hired SFX personnel that ought to have stayed unemployed and watched too much the Kirk Douglas movie and 300 is trying to out HBO HBO without the actual savoir faire to do it well.

[GoodSmeagol]

As for season 2 and 3, which I have heard are being planned:
SPOILERS PERHAPS!

Trigger Warning!!!1! :

The real life story of Spartacus:
This slave escape becomes the last and the third major slave escape in Roman history.
From the escape sparty moved through Italy and collects and frees 80k+ slaves and takes them all to mount vesuvias(sp) where he trains them.
Here praetors from Rome (one being Glaber) is sent to deal with this.
The Praetors are under manned but feel if they can just siege Spartys army for the winter they will all die and flee.
Sparty comes up with genius moves and manages to defeat all the Romans.
He has 2 generals, Crixus, and Oemenaeous(sp), who we learn in ep 13, Doctores name is Oemenaeous...
So even though Spartythe Gladiator is done, still a lot of room for more blood, and sand...
If my short notes suck, they prob do, read up on the real story here.
Also note, until ep 13, we were under the impression Batiatus' name was Quintus, IRL it is Letulus, which they started calling him a bit in this one "Quintus Letulus Batiatus"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartacus

Cheers

[Svartalf]

Batiatus. What A CUNT.
Oh it's fucking ON.

doubly so, since his worst act of cuntassery (where I'm concerned) also was his most monumental mistake... taking away Spartacus' hopes was way more stupid than dandling him along with promises while actually doing nothing.

[Tigger]

It starts in the UK on 25.6.10 on Bravo @ 10. I assume this is series the oneth?

[Feck]

Yes that's the one . I loved it !

[AshtonBlack]

It's very silly, but damn it didn't hold back. Can't wait for Ser 2!!!!!

[eXcommunicate]

Sorry for resurrecting a dead thread, but I received Season 1 for Christmas, and by bloody Christ I could not even make it past the first 15 minutes of the first episode. The writing was horrible and the action was not engaging at all. It took the worst things about '300' and ramped them up to 11. I might give it another chance after reading some of the praise here... but I've already moved on to ROME: Season 1 and I'm loving it. Well-drawn characters and great story. I'll give Spartacus his chance after I finish Rome.

[Tigger]

Sorry for resurrecting a dead thread, but I received Season 1 for Christmas, and by bloody Christ I could not even make it past the first 15 minutes of the first episode. The writing was horrible and the action was not engaging at all. It took the worst things about '300' and ramped them up to 11. I might give it another chance after reading some of the praise here... but I've already moved on to ROME: Season 1 and I'm loving it. Well-drawn characters and great story. I'll give Spartacus his chance after I finish Rome.

I thought it was just me. I found it on the Bravo Sky channel a few months ago, recorded several episodes, and settled down for a good watch. Pants.

[Millefleur]

I Might have to get hold of this ?????

Me too, although it sounds like porn, which is definitely not why i'm going to watch it

[Animavore]

I just realised, I never watched past the fourth episode (after watching the first three in a row).

It got samey and I got bored.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

lol. It's a PPV channel.

http://www.starz.com/

Premium, not PPV.

[M]

It is quite ridiculous and we watched every episode.

[M]

I'm liking Crixus this time round, but the mahogony Doctore is still my fave.

[Geoff]

I'm liking Crixus this time round, but the mahogony Doctore is still my fave.

I loved the original series, but am enjoying the prequel even more!

[M]

Rewatching Blood and Sand and by Crixus, that And Whitfield was fucking gorgeous.