Hee! We have just finished episode 4 of the second season, in which Vorenus and Pullo have just rescued the kids, and we've just met the older version of Octavian. I enjoy it a whole lot! I have a real love for series which pay attention to people in different strata of society. Also, the brothers-in-arms thing Vorenus and Pullo have going hits me right in the Sutcliffian kink.
And of course the historical aspect (with the annotations by the consulting historian) is quite interesting to me. In between S1 and S2 I listened to Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcasts, and shored up my knowledge of the factors behind and the events leading up to the fall of the Roman Republic, and so I am feeling a bit better educated than I was before (and no longer have to say that everything I know about classical history I learned from HBO).
I am ordinarily much more of a book person than a visual-media person, but with Mansfield Park I had so much confusion as to who was who in the book, and got so bored with the play part, and the movie did a good job of ironing these things out. Fanny is really presented as being a Good Person, and one can't help but like her and want things to go well for her.
Also, if you need more incentive, there is a bit of Mary/Fanny subtext (er, Mary coming on to Fanny, who is oblivious) in the movie. I don't know if that was in the book! And there are a number of actors I recognized from other things, not just the two I mentioned. Sometimes it feels as though there are only a dozen actors who do BBC costume dramas (just as it felt as though there are only a dozen Canadian actors, back when I was in the Greater Canadian Fandom), but they are all good.
And of course, just as in Rome, there are women with elaborate hairstyles and drapy clothes, and there are horses. (There is considerably less nudity, though.)
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Date: 2012-08-10 09:22 pm (UTC)And of course the historical aspect (with the annotations by the consulting historian) is quite interesting to me. In between S1 and S2 I listened to Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcasts, and shored up my knowledge of the factors behind and the events leading up to the fall of the Roman Republic, and so I am feeling a bit better educated than I was before (and no longer have to say that everything I know about classical history I learned from HBO).
I am ordinarily much more of a book person than a visual-media person, but with Mansfield Park I had so much confusion as to who was who in the book, and got so bored with the play part, and the movie did a good job of ironing these things out. Fanny is really presented as being a Good Person, and one can't help but like her and want things to go well for her.
Also, if you need more incentive, there is a bit of Mary/Fanny subtext (er, Mary coming on to Fanny, who is oblivious) in the movie. I don't know if that was in the book! And there are a number of actors I recognized from other things, not just the two I mentioned. Sometimes it feels as though there are only a dozen actors who do BBC costume dramas (just as it felt as though there are only a dozen Canadian actors, back when I was in the Greater Canadian Fandom), but they are all good.
And of course, just as in Rome, there are women with elaborate hairstyles and drapy clothes, and there are horses. (There is considerably less nudity, though.)