Being a televisual recap

[burntcopper]

I love Ugly Betty far too much for words. Especially the evil twinnage of Mark and Amanda.

BSG? Pootling along in their screwed up fashion. :pats entire cast: Bless. And ooo, Mark Sheppard? (Badger from Firefly and things like 24 and X-Files to you) As a lawyer who... oh, the sunglasses. Mmm, the sunglasses. and a realistic Irish accent. (the one that's the soft gravelly one - it's not Belfast, that's all I know)

Rome. Oh god, show, never leave me. Pullo. Oh, Pullo. Mark Antony in eyeliner and henna/tattoos. Octavian sex scenes? :falls over in drool puddle: Also, Livia. It's nice to see that you are really intelligent and calculating under the cutesy. We approve.

End of season approaching. Thing is, I don't know if they can do a third series, since it's not as clear an arc - first one was very clearly going to end with the Ides of March, and this one was about the ascent and then dissolving of the Second Triumvirate with Octavian winning. The third? There's not exactly a 'big event' that's known by general public about Augustus' reign and he was rather long-lived. It's not like you could suddenly jump to Tiberius and then Caligula - not to mention the sheer aging and so on you'd have to do of the main cast. Plus? Caligula and Claudius are descended from Livia's *other* kid (the one who was born about four days pre-her marriage to Octavian, rumoured to be Octavian's but really, really not since he didn't actually meet her until she was a good couple of months preggers with said sprog), who married Octavia and Antony's daughter, and the series has only mentioned Tiberius (not to mention Caligula's mum is Julia and Agrippa's kid - Julia being Augustus' kid from his first marriage - the Julio-Claudian family tree is *guaranteed* to give you a headache). Rome, I love you but your trimming of all the kids means you've kind of shot yourself in the foot for the production of future Caesars.

Saw the first ep of Miss Match. Whose pitch was so very clearly 'Clueless grown up'. Alicia Silverstone has irritated me in everything except Clueless, but since she's quite clearly playing Cher (seriously, second gen lawyer daddy's girl with a thing for matchmaking and clothes?), this is actually enjoyable. Complete fluff, but fun fluff.

Still not got round to watching the SG-1. It lurks in my downloads folder. I think at this rate I'll be watching my shiny new dvds before I do. And possibly even the entire season of Dr Who before I watch SG-1. Reminds me, need to watch S3 Entourage before new eps start.

Comments

[miniosiris.livejournal.com]

Is there any chance that you could put what episodes of Rome Season 2 you have downloaded onto disc for me? I am desperate to see the new season. Will be at the pub meet tomorrow. Are you going to Sloopy's party?

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

of *course* going to sloopy's party and pubmeet.

I think it'd be better if I wait before giving you the eps, since the last ep is this sunday (it being HBO, there's only ten) - can mail once burned.

[miniosiris.livejournal.com]

Thank you!!

[randomeliza.livejournal.com]

I think we've known from the beginning of series 2 of Rome that there wasn't going to be a third - budget issues were given as the reason, and all the cast have moved on to other projects. As much as I'd love them to go on... Actium works really well as a stopping point. I'm still mad that they've made a complete muck of the family tree, but not quite as mad knowing that they're not gonna have to go on with it as it is.

Octavian sex scenes? :falls over in drool puddle:

Um, yes. I had to rewatch this a couple times because I kept getting distracted by Octavian's fine, fine ass and vigorous fucking. And, y'know, I wanted to see if it was, um. Historically accurate fucking. Yes. That's totally it. *cough*

[celiaka.livejournal.com]

Livia is queen bitch in I, Claudius, played by Siân Phillips, and I sort have had that at the back of my mind while watching the lastest ep. Thinking about it I, Claudius picks up from the end of Octavian (Augustus) reign so is the sequel to Rome really. Less pretty and sexy though. You have to handle the fact that Octavian turns into Brian Blessed, John Hurt is an insane Caligula, and Patrick Stewart turns up with a head of curly hair!

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

Huh. How close to the books is the 70s series? I read the books in my early teens, and Robert Graves really starts to lose control of the voice/story/characterisation mid-way through Claudius the God.

[celiaka.livejournal.com]

I've not read the books, so I'm not sure. A brief google revels this website (http://www.anselm.edu/internet/classics/I%2CCLAUDIUS/) dissecting it.

[alysscarlet.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid this is the final series of Rome. They decided before they started that there would be no third series. :-( I've only seen the first couple of episodes of S2 (I don't do torrents and there's no LJ community I've found that has them to d/l, so I've been relying on a friend) but I'm looking forward to getting some quiet time to watch the rest.

My BSG viewing has also been curtailed by the removal of Sky One from my VirginMedia platform. I have a friend sending them over from Toronto instead.

The things I do for my fandoms!