I'll play Manius and Servius, Servius will be the defence for Manius only.
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I'll play Manius and Servius, Servius will be the defence for Manius only.
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That's fine, I'll serve as prosecutor.
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Calling all Rome fans!
Check it out, starting tonight BBC4 are doing a "Visions of Rome" season. They're showing every episode of I Claudius at 9pm on consecutive nights!
They're following that every night with Up Pompeii, and a few other documentaries thrown in as well!
[monty burns] excellent [/monty burns]
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/cinema/...claudius.shtml
Starts tonight at 8 with Togas on TV
"I request permanent reassignment to the Gallic frontier. Nay, I demand reassignment. Perhaps it is improper to say so, but I refuse to fight against the Greeks or Macedonians any more. Give my command to another, for I cannot, I will not, lead an army into battle against a civilized nation so long as the Gauls survive. I am not the young man I once was, but I swear before Jupiter Optimus Maximus that I shall see a world without Gauls before I take my final breath."
Senator Augustus Verginius
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Thanks for the heads-up - I remember watching that as a kid; it made a big impression. It made the recent "Rome" series look tame by comparison. I guess because the Emperors were able to get away with so much compared to the men of the Republic. I wonder how it fares by today's standards?Originally Posted by Mount Suribachi
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Just one note.. (Going through all the posts you hyper-actives make is hard along with everything else I need to do :P )
Make Publius seem as a victim.. Please. (Me and him share the first name)
"Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be moved when the birds of his land are singing, nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much."
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton.
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I have the DVD at home. You can take all my stuff, just leave me that DVD.
I, Claudius is the best series about Rome ever made in my opinion and I think it will not be surpassed ever (and I think I watched every Rome-related thing ever produced and I am working on the books).
The absolutely brilliant thing about I, Claudius is the acting. Derek Jacobi and Brian Blessed and all the other actors (including Patrick Stewart) give such a brilliant performance that you stay glued to the screen, starving, untill you watched the whole 10 hours of it.
And you never even notice it is almost completely played out indoors !
Apollo must have visited earth as an avatar. Surely Robert Graves must have been that avatar when he wrote I, Claudius and Claudius the God. I was forced to buy a new set of the books as the originals were disintegrating after been read dozens of times.
I think this rant expresses my opinion quite well
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Just a little heads-up, I will be going on vacation tomorrow for three or four days and will not have any internet access at the time.
Marcellus isn't supposed to do anything, but if he gets into any spats during that time, I give my permission for somebody else to fight the battle.
(or you could autoresolve and have a know-it-all 19-year-old go on trial next)
"I'm going to die anyway, and therefore have nothing more to do except deliberately annoy Lemur." -Orb, in the chat
"Lemur. Even if he's innocent, he's a pain; so kill him." -Ignoramus
"I'm going to need to collect all of the rants about the guilty lemur, and put them in a pretty box with ponies and pink bows. Then I'm going to sprinkle sparkly magic dust on the box, and kiss it." -Lemur
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Well DDW, having seen the first 2 episodes, I must agree, I Claudius is brilliant. Like you say, the acting is first class. Kinda weird seeing Brian Blessed as Augustus tho - I'm so used to seeing a rather puny but scheming Octavian! ~:D And Livia is eeeeevil!!!
Shame about "TV and Togas" though. Trust the BBC to make a potentialy interesting program into a piece of trendy revisionism and leftist propaganda. I was expecting Tribesman to be one of the interviewees in that last 5 minutes spent slagging off America
"I request permanent reassignment to the Gallic frontier. Nay, I demand reassignment. Perhaps it is improper to say so, but I refuse to fight against the Greeks or Macedonians any more. Give my command to another, for I cannot, I will not, lead an army into battle against a civilized nation so long as the Gauls survive. I am not the young man I once was, but I swear before Jupiter Optimus Maximus that I shall see a world without Gauls before I take my final breath."
Senator Augustus Verginius
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*hoping my portrayal of Manius the mad is meeting expectations*
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I enjoyed it thoroughly. Crazy enough to entertain, coherent enough to work.
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This looks like fun. I'll need to figure out a gaming comp here sooner or later.
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." -Einstein
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Even if you can't play DA, you can still join as an upper house senator. This means you get to debate whats going on and propose and vote on motions in the Senate Deliberations thread.
"I request permanent reassignment to the Gallic frontier. Nay, I demand reassignment. Perhaps it is improper to say so, but I refuse to fight against the Greeks or Macedonians any more. Give my command to another, for I cannot, I will not, lead an army into battle against a civilized nation so long as the Gauls survive. I am not the young man I once was, but I swear before Jupiter Optimus Maximus that I shall see a world without Gauls before I take my final breath."
Senator Augustus Verginius
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- I've had many weeks of fun just debating and making laws in this campaign. I highly recommend it if only for its ability to include even those unable or not willing to actively play the in-game campaign.This looks like fun. I'll need to figure out a gaming comp here sooner or later.
My Steam Community Profile - Currently looking for .Org members I know with NTW for MP stuff (as I'm new to that...lol)
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Braden if your cd doesn't work I have a single file format for each of the mods you need, eliminating the headache of those seperated zip files.
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