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bedlamsbardGod damn.
See, I was never a Mark Antony girl before, and am still not, but I almost became one at that scene, you know the one I mean, the one in the courtyard.
Rome kind of wavers for me on its tell, don't show stance, because it usually doesn't work for me as well as the PTB would clearly like it to. (See: blew all their budget on the scenery, couldn't get fight choreographers. I think "nonexistent" is the best way to describe the fight scenes.) Sometimes it works; I think it split fifty-fifty in this ep. Well, maybe sixty-forty. This is the one point of the show that really puzzles me; why can they not pull this off? I haven't seen enough HBO to know if it's typical for the network, but it bothers me. (Scenes in this ep that used it: Caesar's funeral/the talk in the tavern about what happened didn't really work for me, Vorenus and Pullo on their revenge mission in the house of Erastes did. One major omission that really, really doesn't work for me in S1 was the battle, I can't remember which one, but you know the one I mean, with the vague blurry fighting and then later, "Hey! Caesar won the battle!" Seriously, what is with the tell, don't show?)
See, I was never a Mark Antony girl before, and am still not, but I almost became one at that scene, you know the one I mean, the one in the courtyard.
Rome kind of wavers for me on its tell, don't show stance, because it usually doesn't work for me as well as the PTB would clearly like it to. (See: blew all their budget on the scenery, couldn't get fight choreographers. I think "nonexistent" is the best way to describe the fight scenes.) Sometimes it works; I think it split fifty-fifty in this ep. Well, maybe sixty-forty. This is the one point of the show that really puzzles me; why can they not pull this off? I haven't seen enough HBO to know if it's typical for the network, but it bothers me. (Scenes in this ep that used it: Caesar's funeral/the talk in the tavern about what happened didn't really work for me, Vorenus and Pullo on their revenge mission in the house of Erastes did. One major omission that really, really doesn't work for me in S1 was the battle, I can't remember which one, but you know the one I mean, with the vague blurry fighting and then later, "Hey! Caesar won the battle!" Seriously, what is with the tell, don't show?)