Spartacus: Vengeance - eps 9-10
I love Spartacus' speeches about justice and freedome being better than the Romans. Because it is about vengeance for him, sure, but not just about that.
I probably should have known it was coming, but it still broke my heart. Because she wants more but he doesn't have more to give. She asks for his heart and he replies "I have given you all that remains" and ohhhh, he knows it is not enough, and the look on his face when she says "it is not enough" and he replies: "no, it is not." I so want him to find a second chance at happiness, not just vengeance and justice. But I would have settled for his finding peace...
Bromance! I love it when BFFs interact.
I don't think anyone who wasn't into Battlestar Galactica is going to get this reference, but Naevia cheering for Crixus reminded me of Fighting Agathons :) (I.e. my last American TV ship). It is wonderful to see her so outgoing and functional and...
Speaking of bromance, I was so happy to see Oenomaus and Gannicus recover their friendship. I love the friendships in this show almost as much as I do the romances.
And Agron and Crixus are not at each other's throats! Miracles! Plus, about time, as their significant others get along.
Two monsters rediscover love? I was oddly pleased by that. I still want them dead but you know...
I seriously started screaming! Crixus and Naevia are another couple rediscovering each other, but while Glaber and Ilythiya are monstrous together, Crixus/Naevia are healing and loving and sane. It totally killed me when he stopped their make-out and apologized for being lost in the moment. And then she replied: "No, it's I who have been lost, and your touch that guides me home." And then - eeee! I could go all meta and talk about her reclaiming her sexuality (both of them reclaiming theirs, actually) or I could be all shallow and just say it's hot. Either way - !!!!!!
This is here because I love my BAMFs.
Even when they are not together, she understands him so well - as he puts it, she finds words to pull him from his darkest thoughts.
So, of course, since this show loves to torture Spartacus, she is killed. Damn!!!! You really can't let him have a scrap of peace, can you, show? He must have been a mass murderer in ten past lives in a row to get a fate like this!
Is it me, or is that blonde German lady (and awesome fighter) eyeing Gannicus? I'd kinda like to see that go somewhere...
Bromance! I love my bromance! I think Gannicus is still skeptical but he is being won over and his friends are here and he always loved mad fights and bad odds.
Crixus is ready to end Ashur and I cheer, cheer, cheer, cheer, die die die!!!!
But then! I have no words! Naevia steps in and says that Ashur is hers and she is the one who should get vengeance on him, and Crixus - Crixus - Crixus - seriously, no words. Despite his own need for vengeance, despite any qualms about Naevia's ability to take out Ashur, despite his need to protect her (you can tell he is terrified out of his mind and is not sure she can take Ashur out), despite everything - he steps back and lets her have her vengeance, lets her fight Ashur. Not just that, but he keeps Spartacus from interfering, despite how much he wants to help himself, and what it may cost him (he pretty much went insane when he lost her and here he is faced with another possibility of an imminent loss), because he puts what she needs above all else, and he knows she needs that. GUUUUUUH! Crixus = ultimate feminist boyfriend. (Also, couple who stabs their rapists together, stays together? Crixus did get to stab Lucretia in s1, so it's only fair Naevia gets her turn with Ashur).
But Naevia manages to win, and I love how proud he looks. And even more, I love that when Ashur tries to spread some last dying poison, saying that killing him won't erase what was done to her, Naevia pauses and says that not, it won't. "But it's a fucking start!" And beheads him, in a few tries.
I didn't think it could get more perfect, but it did. She tells him he was right, it's hard to behead someone in a single stroke, and I squeal at the callback to their first conversation in B&S. And he tells her "then I will teach you" and it is pretty much the most romantic thing I've ever heard. Also, clutching! There is clutching!!!
My OTP continues its insane awesomeness when he is about to go on a super-insanely-risky raid. He tells her that they will be reunited soon, in this life or the next. Crixus/Naevia = best OTP since B.C.E. I love how shining she looks!
I just love them. Seriously, I have no deep thoughts here, I just love them.
Noooooo!!!! Oenomaus :(
That was creeptastically perfect and a perfect ending to these two horrifying women.
Spartacus finally brings down Glaber and avenges his wife. I loved that he told Glaber he was free and when Glaber started ranting about Rome killing him and that a day will come Spartacus will be killed, his reply: "Perhaps. But it is not this day." God, could he be any more amazing? No, no, he couldn't.
And they are going to take on Rome!!! YESSSS!
