>tfw you remember HBO cancelled the best TV show of all times

I love Rome, but GoT wasn't even on the radar then.

Rome was cancelled because it was too expensive.

Stop perpetuating a lie you son of a circus-whore.

>>86454615
>to make GOT
I doubt it

>>86454615
Rome didnt have the fanbase GoT does to hold it up

>>86454688

James Purefoy literally went on record saying that. Thats why he will never appear on got

>thus ends the era of good historical dramas
>instead we get (((History))) channel Vikings

>>86454816
>James Purefoy belongs to the inner circle of HBO executives who decide what shows get cancelled and what shows get picked up
The more you know.

>>86454615
imagine if they made it about an interesting time period

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>>86454615
THIRTEENTH!!!

>>86454858
>Leading actor knows why his show was cancelled

STOP THE FUCKING PRESSES

>>86454820
arent they both dramatizations?

>>86454890
>ancient rome is not interesting
PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT

>>86454808
>Rome didnt have the fanbase GoT does to hold it up
Fanbase and ratings mean jack shit. HBO is a subscription-based business.

>>86454918
GoT has mde HBO millions of subscribers though shitjacker. Millions purchase the dvds and blurays and millions buy GoT merch. Think about it... Bigger fanbase more slavebucks.

>>86454912
ancient rome is the kenny g of time periods

>>86455035
I'd be up for a Byzantine Empire show with all the politics and intrigues, but they'll never make it.

>>86454615
It's scheduled for release shortly after the Deadwood movie premiers

>wwn have S 3-4-5
>wwn have Rome ending with the birth of our lord

Why live?

>>86454858
You are a very, very stupid person

>>86455106

Because normies will have literally never heard of Byzantine Empire.

>>86455469
Normies never read ASoIaF, that didn't stop the show from being really popular.

>>86454858
>even daring to criticise James Purefoy

This is a fag post. You're a fag.

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Just finished this today.

>tfw never got to see Augustus crowned emperor

>>86454688
>the budget for Season 1 exceeded $100 million, or $31 million more than GoT's second season

So why does every image I see on google from this show looks shitty?

>>86455688
It looks significantly better than GoT's recent CGI shitfest.

>>86455759
Dragon looked good in some scenes.

>>86455641
Im glad they ended it before that. There were no characters left. I guess it would have been very different if they had greenlighted a new season. Even keeping Verinus alive reeked of plot armour

>>86454615
That's not Carnivale

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>>86455106
>tfw no series about Belisarius' life or the last Roman-Persian war
fucking normalfags would rather have fantasy bullshit about muh dragons instead of dramatizations that were based on real-life events

>>86455881
>ywn see Nika massacre given the justice it deserves
>ywn see Justinian cowering in fear while his wife advises him to be a fucking man and wear the purple like a true emperor
>ywn see punished Belisarius goint to the hyppodrome and shouting the signal to his soldiers
>ywn see bodies of 30000 people killed in a single day thrown into a river
It's a shame that real history has so many great moments that get ignored in favor of mediocre fiction.

I don't know where it could have went. Augustus pretty much was the greatest emperor of all time.

>>86454816
nah, Game of Thrones wasn't even pitched to HBO several years after Rome ended

I'm sure Purefoy thinks that but he's probably sour

>>86454816
>James Purefoy literally went on record saying that. Thats why he will never appear on got]

>>86454903
>>Leading actor knows why his show was cancelled
>STOP THE FUCKING PRESSES

Oh really?

>[Kevin] McKidd and I had lunch the other day, and I said to him, “Have you been asked to do Game Of Thrones?” And he said, “I’d never do it. Because they stole our fucking show.” He worked out that if Rome had run for the entire seven seasons that it should have run, we would only have finished it last year. And he feels that HBO did Game of Thrones instead of us, so they stole our show. I kind of agree with him. I won’t be doing Game Of Thrones, even if they ask me.

>UPDATE: James Purefoy responded on his official Twitter and said this was nothing but “light-hearted banter”.

>>86455035

Trve plebery

Hey what month is it again?

>>86456876
They would have introduced new characters. They wrapped up the series nicely but they clearly rushed during the Cleopatra rebelion. I would have love to see that taking 1-2 seasons before Jesus

>>86457101
Vnderrated post.

>>86457116
It would be honestly better if they started season 1 before where they did, they obviously wanted to end the season with Caesar's assassination as an interesting plotpoint but the whole first Triumvrate was interesting, its kind of sad Crassus was dead before the show even began. Not to mention the whole Spartacus thing.

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>>86454615
Anon, have you penetrated anyone yet?

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Excuse me, can anyone explain this to me? Aren't they already speaking Latin throughout the series? So would this scene be like... Double Latin?

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>>86454615
Wrong. Best show was pic related

>>86458791
Nah, it's like they turned off the universal translator and let you hear how the aliens really talk for the sake of the atmospere.

>>86454615
still the best show HBO had made.
That final scene of Vorenus and Antony was pure fucking kino as fuck

>>86458863
SNIVELRY

GAIVS.

JVLIVS.

CAESAR.

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A

FVCKING

ROMAN!?

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Please settle this argument once and for all:

Was Cleopatra speaking in another language or does Marcus Agrippa suffer from hearing impairment?

>>86461631
she was probably speaking greek

>>86455688
It was real not cgi. Stop watching cape shit and go outside more and maybe you'll appreciate it.

>>86461812
WE

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>>86456728

man reading that post after reading up a bunch of stuff about the Roman Empire really raises my blood pressure anon

>>86461812
Why wouldn't Marcus Agrippa also speak Greek?

>>86462081
Agrippa was a commoner I think

Greek was something nobles learnt

>>86454688
IIRC BBC pulled their funding for future seasons, making HBO take the whole of the huge budget.

>>86462113
They became friends by going to the same school together. What were they learning there if not Greek?

>>86456728
>It's a shame that real history has so many great moments that get ignored in favor of mediocre fiction.
The problem is a lot of people prefer shitty fiction.

>>86462980
Warfare? Even if its not Greek, it could have been Coptic, Augustus would have learned most of the languages of the realm of Rome

>>86454615
damn good show, roman history plays out like a spanish soap opera

>>86459512
Pretty much every Antony scene in the last couple of episodes was kino. That shit was heartbreaking

>>86454615
Why was season 2 Augustus so shitty? He ruined the entire season.

PULLO
FORMATION

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Why'd they have to suffer so much, bros?

>>86466366
because one was a cuck and the other one a meathead that wasn't a master of his urges

>>86454902
>Let's rile up a 6 foot 4 Caesar army veteran, what's the worse that could happen?

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>>86466558
>Vorenus got cucked
>Pullo cucked Caesar

>>86466677
Pullo was a cuck himself
Caesar was a fag

>>86464575
He didn't exactly ruin it but he certainly fucked a lot of things up. Vorenus's boring whore of a daughter plotline also went nowhere, mandatory Jewish plotline was predictably awful, in fact the entirety of S2 plots other than Brutus's death was shit.

>>86466754
t. senate

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>not liking the most 4chan-inspired historical period of all

>>86466875
79AD was an inside job

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>>86466875
Shit gets me everytime.

>>86467123
>Defecator, may everything turn out ok so that you can leave this place
Gets me everytime

>>86467123
Man, Romans sure had a lot of problems with defecators.

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>>86454615
That's not Carnivale though

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>>86456728
>ywn see how Heraclius turned a thirty year war against the Persians from a defensive full of struggle to a great offensive and ending the war with a victory, while retrieving the True Cross to its rightful place and then everything he achieved becomes undone by the Arab invasions
Seriously how can people prefer shitty fiction to be adapted over marvelous things that you'd hear in legends

>>86466677
>Vorenus got cucked
>Pullo works along with Octavian to find Veronus' wife's lover and kill him
Why was Pullo such a bro?

BBC cancelled Rome, not HBO

>>86455203
Wasn't the birth of our Lord and his threat to the empire the next next season?