Spartacus: Blood and Sand eps 7-8
This show is written specifically for me.
If you think I am surprised Batiatus had Sura killed, think again. I wasn’t even surprised. DIIIIIIEEEE! The contrast between their first interactions (we never see Spartacus happy except in flashback, do we?) and their reunion - OMFG thanks for stomping on bits of heart ep 6 left me, show.
Varro’s wife is so tiny and pretty and loves him so much and they have an adorable blond kid and and…Varro is so going to die, isn’t he? I know how this show works. Every time someone gets a minute of happiness, something appalling happens. It’s written by a sadist, surely. Oh, and the look on Spartacus’ face as he sees his friend actually able to be with his wife, unlike himself - so much pain. I am going to need to watch My Little Pony on a loop once this show is done.
Well, that ended well. OTOH maybe he won’t die now, as he got his doze of misery? This show is making me crazy.
In the middle of all the misery, these two make me so happy…
I really love Spartacus in this episode - he grieves, he is angry, he is shattered - but he is still full of purpose and will and integrity. When he tells Batiatus that Pietros’ life had worth and Batiatus doesn’t even get it (because Spartacus’ idea that a person’s life has worth, slave or not, just because they are a human being, is so alien to him) - my heart! And he wishes he died in the Arena (when he told Crixus he wishes he killed him in the Arena - my heart. Because that way he wouldn’t have known his wife was dead) but not even the depths of his heartbreak will stop him from going on. Batiatus is an idiot. He killed Sura and that was the only carrot he could dangle in front of Spartacus - would else could ever contain him. A man full of rage and understanding of injustice, with nothing to live for and an iron will - you cannot stop him.
At the end of ep 7, Spartacus kills his old self, metaphorically speaking, and it’s horrible but not as horrible as it could be because I know he never does become a true Roman slave (hello, legendary rebellion!). It’s a dysfunctional coping mechanism, just as his belief in Gods and higher path that he decides to follow, as the one last thing left of his wife, but whatever gets him through to fight and live.
I have no idea how Crixus and Naevia manage to stay so functional (and right) together in such an utterly dysfunctional situation, but they are seriously the happiest, sanest thing about this show. Please don’t hurt them (worse) writers, please!
Ummm, I want Spartacus to win but I don’t want Crixus to lose? Dilemmas?
Things I want for my birthday - Ilythiya’s head on a platter. Pretty please? Though it says something about how messed up this show is that I was relieved she was cutting him and not having sex with him.
Only in this show would it be a proof of love for Naevia to ask Crixus to give Lucretia some exceptional sex so she could convince her husband not to sell him. (And proof of love that he didn’t want to). But then of course she gets to watch. Jesus H.
I am beyond obsessed...