"violent but basically well-adjusted Pullo and his BATSHIT CRAXY FRIEND Vorenus." Also want to watch Octavian grow up again.

Basically well-adjusted. Heh. He may be an amiable stone killer, but not someone to turn your back on unless you're someone he loves, and then, you're probably still dead, possibly by his hand. I liked Vorenus even to the end, a guy the gods had chosen to crap upon from a great height. He can't even run away from home without it all ending in shit and blood, but does what he sees as his duty to the bitter end.

I think Max Pirkis spoiled Octavian for me. He was too likeable. The guy playing the wooden megalomaniac Augustus just never clicked for me as the same person.

One other weird point, Pullo's son did look a lot like Gaius [gesture] Julius [gesture] Caesar. Clever little joke there.

Basically well-adjusted. Heh. He may be an amiable stone killer, but not someone to turn your back on unless you're someone he loves, and then, you're probably still dead, possibly by his hand.

Well-adjusted in a relative sense.

Well-adjusted in a relative sense.

Sure, if your relatives are people like Atia ... erm, fair enough.

I loved Atia's "much better women than you" speech to Livia. Unapologetic horrible cow to the last. Fantastic.

I'm sad that it is over, but I'm not sure where it would go next. If anything, the show was Antony's story, (on the Big People half) and with all the great personalities, well, dead, I think it would suffer. I did think that after Caesar left the stage (with Ciaran Hinds' epic turn), the show would be immeasurably diminished, but the scrabbling of those left behind was at least as entertaining in its own way.

I loved Atia's "much better women than you" speech to Livia.

And I loved Octavia's total 'Heh. Snerk. Nice job, mom.' look afterwards. In fact, I laughed so hard that we needed to pause and rewind.

Honestly, that entire episode was far more hilarious than something involving that much death and destruction had any right to be.

I loved Atia's "much better women than you" speech to Livia.

I was cheering so hard at that! After she'd spent the previous few eps looking so broken and defeated, it was fabulous seeing her get her bitch on again. (The evolution of the Atia/Octavia relationship, there's another I want to rewatch from the beginning.)

Season 4 is my favorite, -t. Wow, there is life after McNutty. I didn't expect to feel that way. I'll have to wait forever for Season Five, though. (Speaking of economics getting in the way of the love.)

the Wikipedia page on the characters of Rome all have comparisons to their historical counterparts.

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No more Rome! Nooooo! Loved the entire series. Poor Atia got everything she ever wanted and it ruined her life. The series totally should have ended with Atia staring out and reflecting.

The evolution of the Atia/Octavia relationship, there's another I want to rewatch from the beginning.

Seriously!

I was worried that it would end in much more pain for Pullo. Vorenus had to die, I think, but he was mortally injured while they were fighting together and he made it back to Rome and his children forgave him. And Pullo didn't have to kill his own son (I really thought that was what would go down). so, kind of a happy ending in Rome terms.

Rewatching Season Three of The Wire. Bunny Colvin's speech about there being no paper bag for drugs changed me, when I read the extended version in Simon and Burns' The Corner I swear when I started reading that book, and for about halfway through, I was pretty much your standard suburban Democratic cliche(I suppose I was reluctant to consider the ways that I might have to struggle to become a "citizen", right?) Anyway, I spent half the book waiting for Deandre to go back to school and straighten up and fly right, and I suppose I was at least a nominal supporter of the War on Drugs. But about halfway through, there was a click of recognition, and there was no going back.