Rome > Game of Plebs

>>81953666

Pullo was a better Tyrion and Vorenus was a better Stannis and Octavian was a better Joffrey.

>>81953717
tbqh

true

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True but also Borgias>Rome

>>81953717
utterly shit comparison

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>>81953666
Trips confirm, but why not just start a thread saying that water is wet?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd_kh3V1aTM

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TRVE ROME THREAD, FOR TRVE ROMANS

>>81953717
Wait, was Joffrey the hero?

Octavian did NOTHING wrong.

>>81954025

Joffrey was stupid. That was his only problem.

>>81953962
fuck off

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>>81953666
>>81954000

>>81953666

Starts turning to shit the minute you start noticing that Pullo and Vorenus get away with breaking da rulez every time and the 500th time Antony throws a bitch-fit when Vorenus asks for permission to do whatever, only to let him do it anyway, but I assume that was when they got the cancellation notice. y they do this

>>81954278

If I let the leader of the opposing faction in a civil war go, you can bet there would be consequences.

At least compare it to a historical series like Deadwood or something.

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>>81953666
>>81954000
>>81954022
>>81954044

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>>81954420
We have powerful gods on our side

Rome confirmed for patrician show

>>81954588

Et tu?

>>81953666
BTFO true patrician is comming, I Claudius

Is Rome consistently good? I love the setting and don't want to start something that becomes frustrating to finish.

>>81953666
The shit on my shoe is better than current GoT

>>81955649
Yes. There's great moments throughout up to and including the final episode. Nothing is perfect, of course and I have my quibbles, but my greatest annoyance with the show was its cancellation.

PullI and Vorenous were shit characters that brought the whole show down.

>>81955649
There's only two seasons, and though some say that they don't like the second one , the quality is still pretty high all the way through

>>81955649
it never gets bad, but midway through the second season it feels rushed because the show got cancelled and they had to cram a lot of stuff in it

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I, Claudius > Rome > GOT

What are some other good shows from this time period?

>>81956417
>>81955800

>hello my name is moark anthonayyy
what did they mean by this?

The thing that bothers me about Rome is that they skip over virtually the entirety of the civil war in favour of the fictional Pullo/Vorenus bromance.

>>81956479
>Pullo
Is there a dumber character?

>>81953666
Game of Thrones:
>1 great season, 2 decent, 3 shite

Rome:
>1 majestic season, 1 utter fucking garbage

>>81953666
Watching it now. Around episode 9 of the 1st season.

In some aspects it's a weaker show, at least in how some episodes are directed, even if GoT indeed has some terribly directed ones.

Vorenus is a great likeable character, nothing of the sorts in GoT. However, I feel that Pullo is a bit weak because sometimes he's literally the deus ex machina making the plot continue. His role as evanescent mediator is a bit too obvious sometimes, even if I understand that's something like that is needed if you want to be faithful to History in a short number of episodes.

What about I, Clavdivs?

>>81956479

Well that was the purpose of the show to show the events of the time through the eyes of some regular legionries

>>81956479
this bugged me too

the battle of pharsalus, one of the most significant battles in the civil war is 5 blurred seconds of people swinging their swords about. it would've been amazing if all the battles more attention. philippi's was great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exI45AnLBRc

>>81956417
Spartacus is pretty good.

There are hardly any battle scenes, and second season was rushed as fuck.

>>81956525
Rome's second season was better than 90% of shows at their best. It was rushed, but it was still good.

>>81954025
Augustus really was a great ruler, so this is largely true.

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>>81953666
Spartacus was good too. They went crazy overboard with the historical accuracy down to using latin grammar and sentence structure for the dialogue. If you could find any flaws it's that everyone is just too damn too sexy for Ancient Rome.

>>81955800

Too bad only me and you have seen I, Claudius

>>81954022
in which episode reads he about the jews ? why no webm(eme) from that yet

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>>81953962
>Jerememe Irony
opinion discarded


btw pic relater über alles

>>81953962
unironically true

>it's a titus and pullo find something they would in reality have very little chance of finding
>they find the standard
>they "find" the gold but walk past it
>they find Octavian
>they find his children

There was definitely like two other things they found. Grain? or something.

Seriously it was absurd. good show even still.

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pic related is /ourguy/ right?

>>81958899
They found Pompey after the shipwreck

>>81957905
>token nigger character

>>81957905
spartacus is for kids with low attention span
effects are tacky as fuck as well
rome is miles ahead of spartashite

>>81959153

actually no, its a really imporant character. they had token faggots tho.

>>81959153

>token retard post

Read a fucking book

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>>81959153
There's a lot of black people around the mediterranean. Especially slaves.

>>81953666
best bromance

>>81953666
So are you just turning 14 or something? Do you think this somehow is news, you dumb faggot?
Just fuck off and don't come back, you little shit.

>>81958899
The "they have powerful gods on their side" line is an acknowledgement of this.

>>81958908

Mr. "I'm not rising from this bed until I've fucked someone"? Nah.

>>81958681
You're a loser, are you aware of that?

>>81953666
Second season was shit

>>81953962
This was also a great show, won't lie

>>81959455
>>81959433
>>81958899
>>81956566
>>81955800
>>81954588
>>81954044
>>81954022
>>81954000
>>81953666

CHEQUED!

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>>81959522

Well no shit. A well-written and superbly casted series about Caesar and the conditions in Rome is going to trump some fatass' shitty War of the Roses fantasy fanfic. It's a real shame that Rome only got 2 seasons because we don't get too much depictions of Roman history nowadays.

HBO

WHERE ARE MY SEASONS

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>>81953962
>>81958835

when you read the GoTs books and hear GRRM talking about it you realize it's supposed to be a lot closer to the Borgias in terms of look and feel then the stupid HBO show.

>pic related is supposed to be heir to one of the wealthiest families in Westeros.
>looks like an extra from Vikings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guWDCXPCxGc

This short conversation between Pullo and Octavian has better writing that anything i've seen in GoT. Still enjoy GoT though.

>>81953666
HE WAS A

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>>81961590
GOOD FRIEND.

>>81955741
This is the final redpill and most people here don't dare to swallow it.

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>muh republic

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>>81961533
That kid was so fucking good as Octavian.
>tfw don't live in the universe where Rome got to run its full course
>tfw live in the one where shitty faggot GoT did

>>81958681
5:39
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIMGmbbx37A

>>81954025
>turn your best friend into a cuck
>nothing wrong

>>81961260
>HBO
BBC you ameriturd. Just because we sell you rights to view it doesn't make it fucking yours

>>81959215
Oenomaeus was a fucking gaul.

>>81961717
meh...Pullo was actually a pretty good representation of what a legionarie would have been like.

Vorenous had pretty accurate attitudes re a member of the minor nobility.

they fucked with some stuff for the sake of drama (muh mafia subplot, Vorenous breaking his client/patron relationship with Antoni) but the characters were pretty good representation of Romans.

>>81961898
HE WAS A CONSUL OF ROME

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>>81961925
>but the characters were pretty good representation of Romans.
>All citizens, be aware that the vassal, Prince Herod, Tetrarch of Galilee, has come to the city. By order of the triumvirate, during his residence here, all mockery of Jews and their one god shall be kept to an appropriate minimum

>>81961747
Cato was younger than Caesar. He was an alt-right while Caesar was a fucking pleb loving bolivarian socialist. Fuck Caesar. SPQR, not panem et circenses ok?

>>81958820
The war scenes in this show made me feel feels i have never felt before in tv or films.

Everyone should watch it.

>>81961855
GoT is an HBO show you brain-dead limey cousin fucker.

>>81961855
Please tell me euro's aren't *this* retarded.

BBC contributed 15 million of a show that cost 100 million, that doesn't make it the BBC's either.

The creators pitched a show to HBO, BBC agreed to co-produce.

>>81953666
grass is green

>>81962031
heh...I kek'd at that part.

>>81955800
I,Claudius is God-tier

>>81961925
The problem was that they shoved them into every plot line, the characters were fine, but should have been minor ones in a great ensemble.

>>81962046
Caesar wasn't a socialist, so much as he was a populist.

>>81959950
neat

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PULLO!

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>>81961975
>consul
>not CONSOLE

>>81962725
(that guy)

you're right...or have the big events in the background while Pullo and Vorenous do everyday Roman things.

It's too bad that they fucked up so bad with Octavian. Antony was the best part of the show. Also too much of Pollo and Vorenus,

>>81961771

I wonder how far Octavian and Joffrey would have gotten in a conversation before one of them tried to have the other killed?

>>81961853
What do you mean, Agrippa ? How did he turn him into a cuck ?

>>81963345
GET

rome was too good, now i just miss watching new episodes of it.

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Yeah. Rome wasn't bad. GoT is just a gay British soap opera.

------ Hey we're gonna spend a full season marching two the capital, fighting major battles along the way.

Cool. Gonna show any of the battles?

No! lol -------

Finally showed a little fighting last year and used the gayest cheapest trick by having fag under a pile of bodies so they didn't have to pay for the production of a battle scene.

Rome was pretty bad in this regard as well, but you didn't have to listen to retarded children talk about it like it's not the worst thing on TV everyday for years. And it was just better all around.

Game of Cliches.