Oh, God. People at TWOP, just SHUT UP!

Yes, yes, JRM is not over six feet tall and Henry VIII was. OMG! Ohnoez. Horrors. OMG, not historically accurate. BLAH. I am one of ten people who didn’t love Rome (it was good but didn’t grab me) and am one of ten people loving The Tudors. Anyway, nothing wrong with thinking it’s boring, slow-moving, ( Read more... )

Watched more of The Tudors and really. How can people object to it when there is so much hot male (and female if that's your thing) flesh about, either in period clothes or verrrrry naked? Seriously. I know I sound shallow but oh well. Plus, all that carping about JRM not looking like Henry. I find myself not caring when I stare at the cheekbones. ( Read more... )

So, all the squee about Rome on my flist made me go digging for other movie/TV productions dealing with the time period.

So I turned to my trusted friend, wikipedia.

In addition to reminding me of my historical crush on Germanicus and of my glee at the nasty barbs historians loved even back then (sample quote from Tacitus on Agrippa Postumus, ( Read more... )

Finished first two episodes of RomeHmmmm. I am rather over the fact that have so many sex scenes. They don't seem to serve any purpose other than to go 'see, we are so edgy, and so daring, and so cool. And weren't those Romans a wicked bunch?' I am also a bit taken aback by the way they chose to portray Caesar: completely emotionless. Whatever else ( Read more... )

Twenty minutes in, I really really like it ( Read more... )

Yay! We went shopping in Target which for me was totally exciting. An orgy of consummerism. I live in a big city with no large stores but a lot of awesome small boutiques, so this was sort of exciting. It was sort of like 'eeee, that is what real grown-up married people do.' Yeah, I am five.

Bought the first season of Rome though, sight unseen, ( Read more... )

I will read or watch (or at least try to) anything involving ancient Egypt, Greece, or Rome. I couldn't help myself ever since I was 8, sick, and with my hands on a book of Greek Myths with photographs of statuary, pottery and bas reliefs ( Read more... )

I've only seen 15 minutes so far and am already laughing. Not that many movies can make me go "OMG, wrong!" in the first two seconds. But when they said that gladiatorial games only started with Caesar's time, or that Senate is wooing Romans with games (as opposed to Caesar), LOL ( Read more... )

Am rereading L.M. Bujold's "A Civil Campaign" and it's just as lovely as I remembered. Any author that can make me fall for a 4'9" hyperactive hunchback is something extra. Ahhh, Miles ( Read more... )