When in Rome...

[platypush]

Non-spoilery thoughts on tonight's episode: Where is the naked Marc Anthony? I demand more naked Marc Anthony.

Spoiler thoughts on tonight's episode:

Comments

[lesbiassparrow]

Naked Marc Antony needs to be about 50% of the show.

I think the portrayal of Brutus is fairly accurate (BTW, did you know that Caesar was rumoured to be his dad?). he was moral but with odd Roman quirks - such as lending money to the Island of Rhodes with some huge interest rate (50% I think). And it was his remote ancestor that was the guy who killed the last king of Rome and made Rome into a republic, so I think the patrician pride is rather natural - and that was what ended up being the angle that was used to push him into killing Caesar.

Cato was bonkers. A total nutter.

Despite the lack of nude Antony I thought this was the best episode yet. All we had for the unerotic sex was one shot of Atia's nipples so that's an improvement.

[platypush]

Well, we also had unerotic foreplay between Octavia and Glabius - or it might have been unerotic afterplay. Hard to tell.

[lesbiassparrow]

The unerotic foreplay was still nothing compared to the unerotic sex of previous episodes! But you're right, you would think parted lovers could manage a bit more passion (still, I was sad that ex-hubby died as he was rather noble at the end. Plus I suspect he was the last person who actually loved Octavia and she needs a little love.)

[shipperx]

Green with envy. I don't have HBO (too cheap) and have only had time to download the first episode. :(

[nutmeg3]

I loved the humor in this ep. "Every woman has one." Hee. And yeah, the suicide scene had me rolling. It was like "Who's on first," only, you know, with death.

[platypush]

I've really come around since my first lukewarm reaction to the pilot. I'm not as hooked on this as I am on The Sopranos, or as I was on Six Feet Under, but I am enjoying it immensely so far.