Rome on HBO

[Roderick Ponce Von Fontlebottom]

Did anybody else watch this excellent HBO series. It took place between Caesars crossing the Rubicon to his murder by the Senate. It was bloody excellent, but sadly I dont think there will be another season... Oh yae I havent posted in a long time so lol, how much longer till .08, and does that Roman UI patch for, .74 have all the new citie graphics, and newgrass by Prometheus or is that just in the pics.??? ttyaull

[iberus_generalis]

i've seen it, at least 5 times...it's awesome...
it shows Rome for what it really was, a place where the rat eats the cat, with agressive politics, and cultural values quite diferent from today's hipocritical values...far from the politically correct, with beautiful blonde maidens, of the american roman period movies of the 50's/60's that although were quite beautiful(loved ben-hur and Spartacus..), were uttely incoherent and inacurate...

but last time i checked the 2nd season was being made, and was to air on 3rd quarter 2007....don't tell me they cancelled it??? i see that historical stories can't be too acurate, otherwise, religious zealots, conservative ppl, and educated ignorants, start to whine about the language used by the ppl, and the attitute towards sex very well retracted in this series... at least here in my country some of this said pressure groups rebeled against this features, but fortunately the channel airing the series, didn't got bullyed, cuz they are a state cultural channel, who (fortunatly) doesn't give a damn about share, and still today pass good, educative and cultural (and not reality shows and hollywood movies) programs...=)

let's then form a pressure group, so that Pullo and Vorenus get into the second series, and we can see Pullo being promoted to one of Octavians centurions, and voreno following M Antony...and see this die hard friends face wich other at war...

therefore i am a:

[Orb]

In general:
I much preferred I, Claudius, myself, I thought Rome was good in its own way, but it doesn't really compare...

@Iberus:
Well, the nudity and sex was overdone too much. I think it actually weakened the overall quality of the production because of the excess.

And - how can you praise it, in that it wasn't 'inaccurate' yet complain about the complaints of history buffs who know what they are talking about. The people who complain about the historical accuracy (I'm not one of them) might well be right, but the intention of the series was drama/ratings rather than accuracy.

[EdwardL]

Yes it was a good series.. just checked HBO.com and reads that they are still shooting the second season

[-Praetor-]

Yea, I haven`t heard that they were going to cancel the series... for all I know, they were filming the second season as we speak.

Hope they show it up here in Chile, I`ve been waiting too long for the second season...

[Geoffrey S]

I enjoyed it; in particular, the episode in Egypt and the final episode were absolutely brilliant. The stabbing of Caesar by Brutus (oh, spoiler) at the same time horrific and sublime. There were historical inaccuracies, and I personally missed Pharsalus not being shown in full (budget constraints, probably), but I felt it gave a very atmospheric impression of what Rome may have been.

As for a second season, I heard they were filming a new season documenting the rise of Octavius, but that was a long time ago.

[Simmons]

As for a second season, I heard they were filming a new season documenting the rise of Octavius, but that was a long time ago.

This is what I heard as well I look forward to the 2nd season the 1st was quite enjoyable.

[Dayve]

It was absolutely brilliant and i bought it the first day it was released on DVD. There wasn't too much sex/nudity in it at all... Back in those days before christianity ruined the west, nudity and sex were normal things not to be frowned upon, so don't come in here whining about nudity and sex like they're bad things that spoil everything.

And for the record... Polly Walker (Atia) is so effing hot...