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:
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