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Spartacus: Vengenace season 2

Yeah, I mean, it's made for an audience that doesn't know a lick of German. If I were watching a show where it was made for a German speaking audience, and they used broken English as 'foreigner gobbledygook', I'm sure it would sound pretty ridiculous. I guess lucky for me so many people around the world speak English as a second language that they probably wouldn't do that. I'm sure it's easier to ape an existing language rather than try to reconstruct or invent an old one. Just throw the script into the Google translation site, and you're done!

As for whether the the Blood and Tits (seriously, that would be a better name than Blood and Sand IMO) detracts from the plots... I'd say no. This feels like a show that thrives on being over the top.

If you scaled it back to even HBO levels I think it wouldn't be nearly as interesting. The violence and sex plus the faux Shakespearean dialogue makes it unique and fresh compared to other shows out there.
 
I wonder if the writers were sitting around trying to think of a clever way for Spartacus to kill that big German and someone said, "Okay, what can we do for their faceoff?"

"Hey..."

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Love that series. We have to admit the series is pure 'sex and violence porn' unlike, lets say the series Rome which is more historically accurate and use sex and violence in a more controlled and appropriate way. Very entertaining.

It's obvious that the writers of Spartacus are thinking about ways to bring violence, vulgar languages and sex continuously into their shows no matter what is the storyline or what it brings to the stories. It's fun.

The dialogues and storylines are very original as far as I know. Like many recent historical (historical-like) series (like Rome, The Tudors, Game of Thrones), I like the way it shows us a different way of thinking (realistically or not). A bit like science fiction does when it is doing a movie/series about the future/aliens society.

My favorite episode this year: Libertus, but they are all great imo.
 
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The pieces are falling into place for the endgame, let the backstabbings commence! Or at least escalate since they never end. :)
 
This season they seem to need to have a scene in the brothel every episode to get the sex quota in.
 
That was some pretty awesome carnage. I was enjoying the slow motion nastiness, there was some real beauty in that (y'know, the big spoilery moment). I dig that crazy blonde slave girl, she always looks like she's having a good time.
 
It's certainly taking them long enough to get the actual war started.

Historically, Spartacus escaped the ludus with maybe 30-50 people, retreated to the defensible slopes of Vesuvius, built his army, defeated Glabor, and started marching out of Italy (or trying to) in rather short order. I really expected season 2 to get into the war, rather than just a bunch of directionless knocking around.
 
Ayelbourne said:
I had no idea ancient germanic tribes spoke broken modern day German.
Being able to understand what they were saying (or rather trying to say) took me a bit out of the narrative.

Otherwise good episode. Conan Stevens truly is a sight to behold. It's a shame they recast Gregor Clegane over at GoT.
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This is clearly an alternate universe where every human has a blood pressure of one million (to explain the exploding paper cuts) and Rome conquered New Zealand sometime before Spartacus' time. I can live with most of it and try to ignore it has much as I can. I can even appreciate the idea of turning the Servile War into more of a guerrilla war than a stand up fight to save money.

My wife likes the show and has me DVR it so we can watch together; but she has has an annoying habit of demanding that we watch it when I'm making dinner. Fortunately I can see the TV from the kitchen, but I have to put the subtitles to keep from having to deal with the deafening volume needed to hear it over my cooking. The subtitles were clearly written by some idiot who thinks that they are speaking some sort of made up language that he needs to transcribe--I think I follow the Schiesseduetsch worse when I'm reading what they are saying.
 
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I wonder if Ilithia will be wandering the ludus like a madwoman when the next season opens. She seems to be in exactly the same position as Lucretia was at the end of S1 - baby dead, belly sliced open, covered with blood.

Nice to see Asher FINALLY get his comuppance.

And holy crap, a Rob Tapert show actually followed known historical facts :lol:! Spartacus did indeed defeat Glabor by raiding his camp at night when the troops were asleep.
 
Oh, Asher you magnificent bastard. I thought maybe he was going to get out of there missing manhood. I didn't think this was quite as climatic and affecting as it could have been. I felt a bit detached from the proceedings. The business with Lucretia caught me off guard though. They really cleaned house on this one.
 
House cleaning does make some sense if they are pretending to follow history in any way shape or form. History says that Spartacus left Capua and Vesuvius behind after falling on Glaber's army.
 
Sparacus's chick getting killed off is a waste of a perfectly good piece of ass. I'd much rather she stick around than what's her face, Naevia... And Crixus has been boring dead weight all season. I'd have killed him and kept Asher.

I did think it was time for Lucretia's exit though, and she went out in style, so props to her.

Speaking of Lucretia and Asher, why did she give half a shit about being promised to him if she knew she was going to steal a baby and fly to the afterlife? Asher is just one of those evil bastards I like to see slither his way through every situation and survive. Oh well, I have faith that they'll come up with some good fresh new characters for season 3.
 
Some son of a bitch on Facebook posted screencaps of Glaber's death this morning before I had a chance to watch my DVR of the episode, so I went through and de-liked every last damn TV show I had listed. Fucking nerds.

The episode was great. I too noticed the similarities to the end of the first season, and marveled at how they basically killed off half the cast. It was good to see Ashur meet his end - of all of them, he was the most scumbag-y of the lot, and very clearly insane.

I'm excited that there's a new soundtrack album. I'm not excited that it'll be at least another year before we get season 3. Oh well.
 
Yoda said:
Sparacus's chick getting killed off is a waste of a perfectly good piece of ass.
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You must be inundated and overwhelmed with compliments of how charming you are.

Speaking of Lucretia and Asher, why did she give half a shit about being promised to him if she knew she was going to steal a baby and fly to the afterlife?
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I thought it was fairly evident that Lucretia hadn't intended to kill/take the baby until she turned around and saw Ilythia coming at her to push her off the balcony. That was when Lucretia snapped.
 
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