Rome Times Three
The one and only good thing about being without an ISP for two weeks is having 2 episodes of Rome waiting for me. I have very mixed feelings about tonight being the last episode but unless TPTB make a swerving U-turn I love the journey that they have taken these characters on and I can't for the life of me imagine that they won't survive it.
Death Mask
For me Death Mask was all about the women of Rome and especially Servilia. I feel a little like Atia in that the phrase, "I call for justice", will ring in my head for a very long time.
I love how this scene was shot from overhead with just Eirene and Pullo and the bed. As much as I'm always rooting for Pullo/Vorenus I do wish that Pullo and Eirene had had more happier moments like this.
Nothing says, I love you, like a little canoodling and a nice swat on the ass. I'm serious.
And some toe sucking.
I've really been enjoying Octavia this season especially since she's not so put-upon and does her best to roll with the punches. Still, I didn't know whether to laugh or cry for her when she was blindsided by a marriage to her mother's lover. Octavian really must of been a sadist.
Strange bedfellows making the best of it on their wedding night.
A Necessary Fiction
I know that Vorenus doubts the nature of his being but he is capable of devotion and holding vigil the same as Pullo.
The inevitable fight that should have taken place when Vorena the Elder was first brought home.
Pullo almost whispering his name and the sight of Pullo and his children bring Vorenus back to his sanity and the aftermath is sickening.
Again, I'm part of Team Pullo/Vorenus, but there's no denying that there's some powerful chemistry between these two and it's not a shared disease.
"Tell them I tried." And he did. Although I don't believe it's over for them yet.
The adoration is, I think, finally mutual.
::squish!::
Pullo and Vorenus exchange kisses and a little tongue to remember each other by. I love this show.
It's obvious that Pullo wants to go with Vorenus but he can't this time and that Vorenus looking back feels the absence, too.
Pullo trying to shore up for Vorenus but it doesn't hold for long.
Deus Impeditio Esuritori Nullus
Yes, yes, I know the show is about the Roman Empire but it's also about these two men raising each others children. Granted, Pullo has a more deft hand at it ...
... while Vorenus proves he is no one to be toyed with and beans Caesarion (aka Pullo Jr) with a ball.
I love how when Caesarion asks about his father Vorenus doesn't miss a beat lovingly describing Pullo.
Asking Posca to ask Pullo to kiss his children for him. I am a puddle of goo. A happy/weepy puddle of goo.
Vorenus has that not-quite-surprising moment when he realizes he's working for idiots.
Although I do love the eyeliner, Antony and Cleopatra's debauchery illustrates that too much of anything makes everything seem like not enough.
No eyeliner, but Vorenus confides that he and Antony share the same disease of the soul. Antony's fate is already written down :/ but there's still hope for Vorenus.
I loved seeing Pullo taking care of business with no problem but having a harder time collecting kisses for Vorenus. I can only hope that he just lies and showers Vorenus with one kiss after another.
I have so much love for Pullo acknowledging that Vorena has been wronged by her father by simply saying, "I hear you." I think that kind of acknowledgment is more powerful than any kind of apology or amends.
Who hasn't been there? Knowing something is wrong but unable to tap into the personal resources to change it.
Is it any surprise that the final episode is titled, De Patre Vostro (About Your Father)?
Death Mask
For me Death Mask was all about the women of Rome and especially Servilia. I feel a little like Atia in that the phrase, "I call for justice", will ring in my head for a very long time.
I love how this scene was shot from overhead with just Eirene and Pullo and the bed. As much as I'm always rooting for Pullo/Vorenus I do wish that Pullo and Eirene had had more happier moments like this.
Nothing says, I love you, like a little canoodling and a nice swat on the ass. I'm serious.
And some toe sucking.
I've really been enjoying Octavia this season especially since she's not so put-upon and does her best to roll with the punches. Still, I didn't know whether to laugh or cry for her when she was blindsided by a marriage to her mother's lover. Octavian really must of been a sadist.
Strange bedfellows making the best of it on their wedding night.
A Necessary Fiction
I know that Vorenus doubts the nature of his being but he is capable of devotion and holding vigil the same as Pullo.
The inevitable fight that should have taken place when Vorena the Elder was first brought home.
Pullo almost whispering his name and the sight of Pullo and his children bring Vorenus back to his sanity and the aftermath is sickening.
Again, I'm part of Team Pullo/Vorenus, but there's no denying that there's some powerful chemistry between these two and it's not a shared disease.
"Tell them I tried." And he did. Although I don't believe it's over for them yet.
The adoration is, I think, finally mutual.
::squish!::
Pullo and Vorenus exchange kisses and a little tongue to remember each other by. I love this show.
It's obvious that Pullo wants to go with Vorenus but he can't this time and that Vorenus looking back feels the absence, too.
Pullo trying to shore up for Vorenus but it doesn't hold for long.
Deus Impeditio Esuritori Nullus
Yes, yes, I know the show is about the Roman Empire but it's also about these two men raising each others children. Granted, Pullo has a more deft hand at it ...
... while Vorenus proves he is no one to be toyed with and beans Caesarion (aka Pullo Jr) with a ball.
I love how when Caesarion asks about his father Vorenus doesn't miss a beat lovingly describing Pullo.
Asking Posca to ask Pullo to kiss his children for him. I am a puddle of goo. A happy/weepy puddle of goo.
Vorenus has that not-quite-surprising moment when he realizes he's working for idiots.
Although I do love the eyeliner, Antony and Cleopatra's debauchery illustrates that too much of anything makes everything seem like not enough.
No eyeliner, but Vorenus confides that he and Antony share the same disease of the soul. Antony's fate is already written down :/ but there's still hope for Vorenus.
I loved seeing Pullo taking care of business with no problem but having a harder time collecting kisses for Vorenus. I can only hope that he just lies and showers Vorenus with one kiss after another.
I have so much love for Pullo acknowledging that Vorena has been wronged by her father by simply saying, "I hear you." I think that kind of acknowledgment is more powerful than any kind of apology or amends.
Who hasn't been there? Knowing something is wrong but unable to tap into the personal resources to change it.
Is it any surprise that the final episode is titled, De Patre Vostro (About Your Father)?