Monte51Coleman Posted December 2, 2006 Share Posted December 2, 2006 For fans of this series: The season premier is scheduled for January 14th. A short trailer is available for viewing on the website. http://www.hbo.com/rome/?ntrack_para1=leftnav_category0_show7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G.A.C.O.L.B. Posted December 2, 2006 Share Posted December 2, 2006 Good show. I wasn't sure if it was coming back or not. Oh and I still can't belive they killed off my baby Niobe. That sucked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@DCGoldPants Posted December 2, 2006 Share Posted December 2, 2006 I thought the 2nd season would jump forward a decade or so. Interesting. I loved the show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dreamingwolf Posted December 2, 2006 Share Posted December 2, 2006 I love me some Atia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slateman Posted December 2, 2006 Share Posted December 2, 2006 Sweet. I was wondering if it was coming back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riggo-toni Posted December 3, 2006 Share Posted December 3, 2006 Yeah Baby!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost of Posted December 3, 2006 Share Posted December 3, 2006 I must say that this news is pretty on point. I was kinda expecting it later in 2007, so it's awesome that it's back already! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turtle Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 they're showing a repeat on hbo right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G.A.C.O.L.B. Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 they're showing a repeat on hbo right now. A repeat of what? The new one? Has the new season started already? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turtle Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 no when pompi and ceaser were getting ready to fight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bang Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 HBO is the best TV on TV. See, this is me,, anyone else? When Entourage is new, it's the best show on TV When the Wire is new, it's far and away the best show on TV When Deadwood is new, it's the best show on TV When the Sopranos is new I wonder "what the hell happened to this show..." I like Rome,, they waste NO time on extra junk,, they say "we're going to Thesaly", and boom, next scene Roman Legions in Thesaly. ~Bang Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nonniey Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 Great series, Atia and Sevillia are downright evil, I wonder if we'll get introduced to Octavians' future wife Livia, who could blow them both away in the nastiness department. BTW I recommend renting BBC's "I Claudius" which starts in the last years of Augustus's (Octavian) rule as emperor and covers the Julian Emperors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaron Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 *bump* First episode of season 2 was pretty good....... brutal as usual. Thoughts?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slateman Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 I wish my father would watch this show. I'd love to know how accurate it is. He majored in ancient history and is, obviously, a huge fan of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick86L Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 I watched one episode of this, im not sure if it was new but I saw an older sister rape her younger brother... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dreamingwolf Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 I watched one episode of this, im not sure if it was new but I saw an older sister rape her younger brother... ya I believe an enemy to her family convinced her to do that to retaliate for her mother having her lover murdered. the better scenes are atia's full frontals, any of the cleopatra sex scenes, and some of the common whore stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
War Paint Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 Episode 1 of season 2 was awesome. It picked up right where season 1 left off. This is a great series by HBO. I heard that this may be the last season. I hope not. I love gladiator type shows. The cinematography and acting are fantastic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost of Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 WP, this IS the last season. It's just too expensive to produce the show. Now, they could possibly make a 2 hour movie here or there but that's not what HBO does (though there is a possibility that Deadwood will return for a few specials) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G.A.C.O.L.B. Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 So is Octavius going to be fighting Marc Antony during this season or is it just going to be about Brutus? I saw previews that showed Antony meeting Cleopatra but that was it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HokieJ Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 Be happy we got a second season, when they first did it, HBO planned on only 1 season. The problem with HBO's shows is that they are so good that production costs go up and they can't afford the actors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turtle Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 great episode back. looks like a good season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMS Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 I wish my father would watch this show. I'd love to know how accurate it is. He majored in ancient history and is, obviously, a huge fan of it. All of the characters are real and lived. Verinous and Polo are mentioned in one of Ceasar's dispatches back to Rome. In this dispatch he describes these two friends and how during a battle they argue about tactics. Polo eventually disregarding Verinouses advise. The Gauls are closing in non them, Polo wants to leave the stockade and fight them in the open. Verenous wants to defend the stockade. As Pollo attacks the Gauls, he get's cut off from his troops. It looks like he's about to get killed, but Verenous leaves the stockade and comes to his aid... Together they kill like 8 Gaul's which along with the theme of friends defending themselves makes the event noteworthy to Ceasar. That's all we know of these two. So all the story lines involving them are what I call, historically possible, but not based in history. As for the rest of it, from what I can tell; it's spot on... One other slight exception to this. The events of season one took place over a decade period of time. So the time frames involved are seriously condenced. Sometimes this is obvious, like when Ceasar moved his army from Rome to Egypt in pursuit of Pompai between scenes. Sometimes it's not so obvious, as when Ceaser was besiged in Egypt for 18 months before he eventually broke out. In the show all this happenned in like 15 minutes. It's going to be fascinating seeing how Agustus is outmanuvering Brutus and the Senators with Mark Anthony as his ally. Knowing that in the end Agustus outmanuvers Mark Anthony as well. One person who hasn't made his entrance yet. Is Gripper. Augustas was a political genius, but he was no general. Gripper was the military mastermind behind Augustas and was also a boyhood friend of Augustas. Gripper is the guy who eventually out generals Mark Anthony, but we havn't seen him yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nonniey Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 0ne person who hasn't made his entrance yet. Is Gripper. Augustas was a political genius, but he was no general. Gripper was the military mastermind behind Augustas and was also a boyhood friend of Augustas. Gripper is the guy who eventually out generals Mark Anthony, but we havn't seen him yet. Just FYI - Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa (63-12 BCE) was a central person in the establishing of the principate. He was a close friend and ally of Octavian, the later Emperor Augustus, and the man behind most of Octavian's military triumphs. Interesting notes on Agrippa - He was the Grandfather of the future Emperor Caligula. Some think he was poisoned by Livia (Augustus's wife) in order to pave the way for Tiberius to assume the throne. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turtle Posted January 21, 2007 Share Posted January 21, 2007 new episode tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turtle Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 great episode. things are starting to heat up now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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