ABC's Empire

TazFTW · 06-28-2005, 11:17 PM

It is a show(miniseries?) taking place during the Roman Empire. I've just started watching it and it is not bad. I like the casting of Brutus because they got the guy who played Paul in 24 and I hated Paul. This makes it easier to hate Brutus.

Easy Mac · 06-28-2005, 11:19 PM

I was planning on watching, except SWMBO wasn't too keen, so we watched a movie. I had my computer TiVO it, but I forgot, and in my haste to fix my ipod, I restarted the computer, so there went that plan. I'll just rent the DVD. I'm waiting for the HBO version coming sometime in the fall.

Peregrine · 06-28-2005, 11:23 PM

Yeah the HBO series Rome is what I am definitely looking forward to, they do some good stuff with those shows.

Easy Mac · 06-28-2005, 11:29 PM

i heard there'd be more sex and violence, always plusses in my book...

CHEMICAL SOLDIER · 06-28-2005, 11:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Peregrine

Yeah the HBO series Rome is what I am definitely looking forward to, they do some good stuff with those shows.

Not to mention the steamy scenes.

ISiddiqui · 06-28-2005, 11:40 PM

It was a definite MEH for me. Julius Caesar, friend of the people, wanting to 'take away from the influential few and give to the people of Rome' (yes, the guy playing Caesar basically said that). The Senate being a bunch of self-interested fools? WTF? I was hoping for a less "Hollywood" portrayal of the situation.

I'm hoping with him dead they won't reference Caesar being 'for the people'.

CHEMICAL SOLDIER · 06-28-2005, 11:44 PM

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Originally Posted by ISiddiqui

It was a definite MEH for me. Julius Caesar, friend of the people, wanting to 'take away from the influential few and give to the people of Rome' (yes, the guy playing Caesar basically said that). The Senate being a bunch of self-interested fools? WTF? I was hoping for a less "Hollywood" portrayal of the situation.

I'm hoping with him dead they won't reference Caesar being 'for the people'.

Gaius Julii for the people? Hello! He was the Douglas Mac Arthur of his day. Remember the decision he made to cross the Rubicon? If anything he was anti people's rights.

ISiddiqui · 06-28-2005, 11:50 PM

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Originally Posted by CHEMICAL SOLDIER

Gaius Julii for the people? Hello! He was the Douglas Mac Arthur of his day. Remember the decision he made to cross the Rubicon? If anything he was anti people's rights.

Yep, you'd never know it from ABC. Though the middle and lower classes did love him, to say he pissed off the Senators because he was planning on giving the common people more power (by taking it from the Senators) is just absurd.

06-28-2005, 11:40 PM	#6
ISiddiqui Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Decatur, GA	It was a definite MEH for me. Julius Caesar, friend of the people, wanting to 'take away from the influential few and give to the people of Rome' (yes, the guy playing Caesar basically said that). The Senate being a bunch of self-interested fools? WTF? I was hoping for a less "Hollywood" portrayal of the situation. I'm hoping with him dead they won't reference Caesar being 'for the people'. __________________ "A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages" -Tennessee Williams

06-28-2005, 11:19 PM	#2
Easy Mac Registered User Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Here	I was planning on watching, except SWMBO wasn't too keen, so we watched a movie. I had my computer TiVO it, but I forgot, and in my haste to fix my ipod, I restarted the computer, so there went that plan. I'll just rent the DVD. I'm waiting for the HBO version coming sometime in the fall.

06-28-2005, 11:23 PM	#3
Peregrine Pro Starter Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Cary, NC	Yeah the HBO series Rome is what I am definitely looking forward to, they do some good stuff with those shows.

06-28-2005, 11:29 PM	#4
Easy Mac Registered User Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Here	i heard there'd be more sex and violence, always plusses in my book...

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