always been a Lucy lawless fan
she has aged well
always been a Lucy lawless fan
she has aged well
She's just a delight when she gets her tits flapping those scenes. Sorry to be crude.Originally Posted by sduyck_2000
She's go this Lady MacBeth type roll. Once she started to scheme, she was better than her husband and embraced the dark side whole-heartedly. I can't wait to see what happens to her... She's got a convert in illithea and did her "I am an oracle of the gods" for Seppia and Glaber. Man, what a manipulation that was. Seppia and her brother made me squirm. They were too close and I don't mean that in a nice way.
Currently there's that blond, German Amazon-type that fights like a wild-man and attaches herself to the most powerful man around, she's the fun.
Ancient Rome inspires such decadence in me...
“They also call it the Winged Isle. Some say it is because the island, if seen from above, would look like butterfly wings. And I do not know the truth of it.” Then, “ ‘And what is truth?’ said jesting Pilate.” From: The Truth Is A Cave In The Black Mountains by Neil Gaiman.
I was reading the TV schedule tonight to set up being in bed ready for the season finale.
Now STARZ repeats the 10pn show at midnight and the show at 10 pm is listed at 60 minutes and the repeat at 12 pm is listed at 65 minutes.
I doubt there will be 5 minutes of extra show.
I am certain there will be 5 minutes of extra commercials.
“They also call it the Winged Isle. Some say it is because the island, if seen from above, would look like butterfly wings. And I do not know the truth of it.” Then, “ ‘And what is truth?’ said jesting Pilate.” From: The Truth Is A Cave In The Black Mountains by Neil Gaiman.
And history repeats itself in a grand and glorious manner.
As history records, Spartacus and his men found a way off the mountain and defeated Glaber's Romans with a surprise attack from the opposite side of Mount Vesuvius.
The scorecard is bloody and emotionally satisfying. It is as the series is titled "VENGEANCE" ...
I came back to add that Lucy Lawless and the house of Batiatus gets her/their vengeance in a most startling and squeamish way. Navia gets her vengeance on Asher for selling her to the mines.
And we get to see the flaming fireballs once again.
“They also call it the Winged Isle. Some say it is because the island, if seen from above, would look like butterfly wings. And I do not know the truth of it.” Then, “ ‘And what is truth?’ said jesting Pilate.” From: The Truth Is A Cave In The Black Mountains by Neil Gaiman.
I will say one thing in criticism of the show...
In one scene the gladiators and filthy, bloody and unshaven and in the next, they are cleaned up by the makeup people.
“They also call it the Winged Isle. Some say it is because the island, if seen from above, would look like butterfly wings. And I do not know the truth of it.” Then, “ ‘And what is truth?’ said jesting Pilate.” From: The Truth Is A Cave In The Black Mountains by Neil Gaiman.
wow
what a ending
In any grand drama that I watch, I look for single images that are iconic. Images that let us see the story in one image that lasts forever.
As we look at any stage drama, we wait and maybe anticipate the moment when it all becomes one thought, one image, one memory.
I spoke of the movie NETWORK in another thread and in that is Howard Beal raging.
In the Original GODFATHER movie, there is the Baptismal sequence at the end and within the opening wedding sequence, the kissing of the Godfather's (Brando's) hands.
In Kurasawa's RAN (a retelling of King Lear) there is Hidetora leaving the burning castle, wild-eyed and blasted from his throne. It is Kurasawa's visual declamation of "Blow, winds! Blow until your cheeks crack! Rage on, blow! Let tornadoes spew water until the steeples of our churches and the weathervanes are all drowned."
The world is torn apart and rearranged forevermore... These image burn into our minds and stand in place of the drama.
-- Illithia standing, looking out over the edge of the cliff with lightning flashing behind her, blood covering her clothes and hands as the wrath of the Gods strikes.
-- Spartacus standing in the abandoned temple of Vulcan, covered in the blood of Glaber pronouncing war on Rome as a free man.
-- Navia in the arms of Crixus admitting that severing a man's head from his body with one blow is far more difficult than imagined.
And ending worthy of history and satisfying.
“They also call it the Winged Isle. Some say it is because the island, if seen from above, would look like butterfly wings. And I do not know the truth of it.” Then, “ ‘And what is truth?’ said jesting Pilate.” From: The Truth Is A Cave In The Black Mountains by Neil Gaiman.
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