[SpardaSon21]

Much less political intrigue than I have been led to believe, mostly it's just all kinds of people trying kill each other.

And that's different from Ancient Rome how?

[Pred the Penguin]

I'm not even sure what I was expecting... But I guess everybody was at each others throats back then. 

[Fury]

Spartacus: Vengeance (second season to Blood and Sand) finale aired. And my god, was it awesome beyond belief. I can't remember when was the last time I saw a season finale this good.

I highly recommend watching Blood and Sand, Gods of Arena and Vengeance.

[The E]

Seconded. Bloody great television, that.

[mjn.mixael]

I watched it for a while. While indeed Rome was a very violent city and they are trying to capture that.. some of the violence is downright unlikely to the point that they did try too hard. Two examples that stick out from episodes I saw.

Two guys cannot pull a chain (that is wrapped around someone's neck) so hard that his head is literally ejected from his body.

There is no way a woman can beat another woman's head against the floor so hard that her head essentially becomes nonexistent.

It had interesting plot lines, but the violence is often very clearly a "faster and more intense, forget about realism" type of violence.. which just pushed me right out of my suspension of disbelief every time. I kinda got bored of reminding myself that it's just a TV show. I don't want to be thinking about the fact that it's TV while I'm watching it, I want to be sucked into the narrative and storytelling. At some point I just stopped watching though.. so I didn't see the finale. Heard it had a huge body count though.

[BlueFlames]

Any show that tries to sell itself  with phrases like "The bloodiest show on TV" earns negative points from the very start.
It stinks of cheapness and trying to get attention by being contraversal...darker and edgier.

We're talking about a city that, at one point, had blood running through its streets because of the degree of political butchery going on.

That kind of makes me yearn for a show about the French Revolution.  After all, the only thing more entertaining than the French being wiped out is when they provide the courtesy of doing it themselves. 

[samiam]

I watched it for a while. While indeed Rome was a very violent city and they are trying to capture that.. some of the violence is downright unlikely to the point that they did try too hard. Two examples that stick out from episodes I saw.

Two guys cannot pull a chain (that is wrapped around someone's neck) so hard that his head is literally ejected from his body.

Depends on how fat he is, you just need an anchor.

There is no way a woman can beat another woman's head against the floor so hard that her head essentially becomes nonexistent.[/i]

Depends on how fat she is, refrigerators crush people all the time.

[Fury]

Third season of Spartacus has begun and did so with a bang!

NSFW
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYHY6JpYkVA

[Ashrak]

allready watched first ep on weekend, it was awesome

[The E]

Really liking the new bad guy. Finally someone who isn't cartoonishly evil.

[newman]

I tried to give this a chance, but really couldn't get past the first episode. I get that this can be fun to people who don't have expectations of it actually having a look and feel of the historical era it's supposedly happening in, but for me this is Lord of the Rings, direct to DVD cheap version directed by some Quentin Tarantino wannabe. I know it's a bad idea to judge a show based on the first episode alone - lots of them get better as they move on - but when you hate the first episode so much you'd rather have a sex change operation performed with a rusty tea spoon then watch another episode, it's probably best to leave it at that

[Gray113]

I miss the old drinking game from the first series. What you needed would be to get some mates round and a large quantities of alcohol. Then every time that John Hanna's character shouted cock everyone would have to drink. Sometimes you didn't get a chance to finish your drink