HBO going all out for "Rome" (1 Viewer)

[Justin Bauer]

Here is the updated HBO The Buzz segment with added character video.

http://jaybauer24.tripod.com/ThebuzzROME2.avi

 

[Qui-Gon John]

Too bad HBO didn't go to such lengths to get an audience for CARNIVALE!

 

[TravisR]

I think that's what HBO is trying to avoid with Rome, having a great show that not enough people watched like with what happened with Carnivale.

 

[JediFonger]

hate to revisit this but i didn't see any other recent threads.

what do ya'll think about the show? it takes place across a vast span of time very quickly!

i went to a private Catholic HS and had a lot of classics .edu tunneled into me. i did recognize a lot of the names/stories/myths. one of my friends from hs is now teaching the classics (Greek/Latin/Mythology) in a local HS. he's seen it and he affirms that the show is fairly accurate with a lot of obvious creative licenses where history doesn't record itself.

what surprised me wasn't the violence. what was surprising is the scope of the story from Casaer marching into Rome and his imminent finality. i never thought of it in the scope in which the creators made it =). i'll be renting the DVDs to watch the making of's.

didn't the gladiator scene kickass =).

 

[Yee-Ming]

There's a more fully developed thread discussing the series: http://www.hometheaterforum.com/htfo...hreadid=241070
which I see you posted in too.

If you haven't already read that entire thread, please do, some knowledgeable members have given the rest of us plebs a lot of interesting information as to the real life and times of Gaius Julius Caesar and the rest.