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Gaussian posted:The recent activity in this thread has inspired me to do a rewatch of the show. I forgot how good season 1 was: great characterization, tight plotting, no plots that go anywhere, etc. 
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Crixus smashes a Roman in the face with the eagle standard and the eagle goes cawww! Julius Caesar introduces himself by doing a DDT! Spartacus throws a rock fastball so hard it knocks the top of someones skull off! they're really ramping up the awesome ridiculousness in war of the damned EDIT: five minutes after typing, Spartacus does a hurracanrana and in the middle of the hurracanrama stabbed a separate man in the face!!! Eau de MacGowan fucked around with this message at 17:32 on Jul 29, 2014 |
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Jul 29, 2014 17:15
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Eau de MacGowan posted:Crixus smashes a Roman in the face with the eagle standard and the eagle goes cawww! Yeah, to me War of the Damned was the point where the cinematography/effects/budget caught up to the choreography, and the results can be pretty spectacular.
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Jul 29, 2014 18:02
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Eau de MacGowan posted:Crixus smashes a Roman in the face with the eagle standard and the eagle goes cawww! 
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Jul 29, 2014 19:21
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Syndication censorship update, courtesy of the AV Club:quote:Syfy Slice-And-Dice: This is one of the most re-edited episodes yet, with many scenes reframed or edited to remove female nudity. For example, during Licinia’s mask selection, CGI tunics are added to some of the slaves and Mira’s scenes with Spartacus are reframed and feature CGI-heightened shadows. Lucretia’s milk bath scene is reframed similarly, the slaves preparing Spartacus for his rendezvous with Ilithyia are cleverly cut around or have CGI breast bands added, and in their encounter, Ilithyia’s hair is lengthened to cover her nipples. An extra curtain is added across the reveal of the golden Spartacus, to obscure the episode’s only full-frontal male nudity, and their sex scene is chopped up considerably, with a commercial break added after Ilithyia’s walk towards Spartacus; the entire sequence edited down considerably, greatly diminishing its effectiveness. Batiatus’ rape of his slave is also cut entirely, as are a few other lines of dialogue, mostly for swearing.
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Aug 23, 2014 21:50
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Are there any clips online of these? Words leave my imagination to think that the CGI coverings are done by 4 year olds and I'm not sure if that's the case or not.
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Aug 23, 2014 23:10
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They got the guys from episode 1 back to just put CGI blood over all nips and hoo-ha's.
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Aug 24, 2014 05:15
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Meanwhile Hannibal on NBC is allowed to show a totem pole of mangled human bodies.
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Aug 24, 2014 08:31
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Naelyan posted:They got the guys from episode 1 back to just put CGI blood over all nips and hoo-ha's. Mu Zeta posted:Meanwhile Hannibal on NBC is allowed to show a totem pole of mangled human bodies. This is about nudity though, which Hannibal also isn't allowed to do. They initially weren't allowed to show the scene of the 'angels' in episode 5 because you could see their buttcracks, and they got out of it by obscuring the buttcracks with CGI blood. Just as ridiculous.
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Aug 24, 2014 08:35
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Mu Zeta posted:Meanwhile Hannibal on NBC is allowed to show a totem pole of mangled human bodies. Well obviously being able to see a naked body would immediately and instantly corrupt an innocent young child's mind, but letting them watch all kinds of violence and gore and clothed sex scenes is fine because
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Aug 24, 2014 10:38
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I just marathoned through the whole of Spartacus in the past week or two and it was so good! I wrote it off years ago as a bit cheesy and silly, but wow I really really loved it. Really sad that there's no more episodes to watch now  Apart from Rome - is there anything similar in style? I loved the combat, flowery language, awesomely cool goodies and horribly villainous baddies.
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Aug 24, 2014 20:27
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Banshee has been mentioned a few times as a recommendation but I still haven't watched it yet.
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Aug 24, 2014 22:17
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Bloodbath posted:I just marathoned through the whole of Spartacus in the past week or two and it was so good! I wrote it off years ago as a bit cheesy and silly, but wow I really really loved it. Really sad that there's no more episodes to watch now Banshee I wouldn't recommend, but if you're looking for flowery language and amazing baddies Deadwood is pretty undeniable. Less combat though. Lots of drinking and loving though!
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Aug 30, 2014 14:05
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Banshee for sure, the bad guys are amazing, the fighting is amazing and the women are amazing. Whole show is amazing basically.
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Aug 30, 2014 21:22
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Bloodbath posted:I just marathoned through the whole of Spartacus in the past week or two and it was so good! I wrote it off years ago as a bit cheesy and silly, but wow I really really loved it. Really sad that there's no more episodes to watch now Game of Thrones, The Tudors, I Claudius, and The Borgias.
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Thanks guys. I've seen all of those shows, which I guess confirms my fears that I have to accept Spartacus is finished and move on with my life.
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Aug 30, 2014 23:12
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There's another show called Borgia from the creator of the Oz prison show.
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Aug 30, 2014 23:15
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I've always considered Spartacus S1 to set off similar endorphines as Prison Break's opening effort.
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Aug 31, 2014 00:50
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Bloodbath posted:Thanks guys. I've seen all of those shows, which I guess confirms my fears that I have to accept Spartacus is finished and move on with my life. Human Target season 1? (Do not watch season 2) Great fight scenes. God the second season is donkey balls.
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Aug 31, 2014 01:49
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Arrow has Manu Bennett and gets really good after a few episodes.
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Aug 31, 2014 23:14
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Arrow is nothing like Spartacus and is not a good show unless you are super into comic books. Manu Bennett is not in it enough.
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Sep 1, 2014 03:20
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Wachepti posted:Arrow is not a good show The saddest post on this entire subforum.
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Sep 1, 2014 05:09
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Wachepti posted:Arrow is nothing like Spartacus and is not a good show unless you are super into comic books. Manu Bennett is not in it enough. This is a wrong post.
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Sep 1, 2014 05:21
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Wachepti posted:Arrow is nothing like Spartacus and is not a good show unless you are super into comic books. Manu Bennett is not in it enough. Sorry about your cat.
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Sep 1, 2014 05:23
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Wachepti posted:Arrow is not a good show What a silly thing to say. Also I was looking back at an article when they were still casting the replacement for Whitfield and apparently it came down to McIntyre and Amell? Which is kind of crazy. I want to know what an Amell Spartacus would be like.
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Sep 1, 2014 05:34
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You have failed this rebellion.
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Sep 1, 2014 05:40
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Mu Zeta posted:There's another show called Borgia from the creator of the Oz prison show. It's so much better than the Showtime one too. A couple other shows that dude might like are Vikings and Black Sails. They're both historical dramas with badass characters doing badass things, although they're both slower paced and lower key than Spartacus
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Sep 1, 2014 06:20
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savinhill posted:It's so much better than the Showtime one too. Black Sails made me watch trough an entire episode about scrubbing a boat and it made me like it. 
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Sep 1, 2014 06:35
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Xoidanor posted:Black Sails made me watch trough an entire episode about scrubbing a boat and it made me like it. It has similar rude fun humor like the blackbeard joke.
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Sep 1, 2014 07:44
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Zaggitz posted:The saddest post on this entire subforum. HUGE SPACEKABLOOIE posted:This is a wrong post. ded posted:Sorry about your cat. dreffen posted:What a silly thing to say. Nope, he's pretty much right. Arrow is not good if you don't like comic books. Its made for the same people that think The Avengers was a triumph of modern film.
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Sep 2, 2014 05:06
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Solice Kirsk posted:Nope, he's pretty much right. Arrow is not good if you don't like comic books. Its made for the same people that think The Avengers was a triumph of modern film. I'm not huge into comic books and thought The Avengers was kind of a mess, and I enjoy Arrow.
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Sep 2, 2014 05:31
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I don't like comics or superhero stuff in general which is why it took me so long to watch Arrow. It did take quite a few episodes to get into though. Black Sails was really good, definitely watch that one.
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Sep 2, 2014 13:03
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dreffen posted:I'm not huge into comic books and thought The Avengers was kind of a mess, and I enjoy Arrow. Seconding this opinion. I don't read comics at all, and never even heard of the character until watching the show, and it owns pretty hard, IMO.
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Sep 2, 2014 13:43
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Arrow turned into generic cringey CW garbage this last season, I'm not sure I can safely recommend it to anyone anymore.
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Deakul posted:Arrow turned into generic cringey CW garbage this last season, I'm not sure I can safely recommend it to anyone anymore. I felt like that happened around 12 episodes into the first season which is why I dropped it.
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Sep 2, 2014 18:06
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CODChimera posted:
This I can get behind. Its like Deadwood with pirates. I can't wait for the second season.
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Sep 2, 2014 21:05
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Arrow's first season was good (except the Huntress arc early), but I stopped watching in the middle of the second season.
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Sep 2, 2014 21:38
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Arrow is like Spartacus in that it typically doesn't waste time and cuts right to the point, while trying to make as much awesome as possible happen at the time. It's like the anti-Smallville. And, of course, the shared actors. It's nowhere near as good; it's basically the pulpy, light fun, you THOUGHT Spartacus might be when first watching. But it's still in the 'second tier" of television right now, as far as entertainingly watchable goes. Also, Avengers sucked.
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I started Arrow because I liked Nikita and people in there recommended it. If you aren't a superhero fan, it's just okay and actively bad at times. Overall, it's a good semi-realistic superhero series (and it made Amazing Spiderman 2 look even more like garbage) but not good enough to recommend. It also has the super annoying Lost thing where people act out of character to make fake drama. Nikita on the other hand, is awesome. Despite still needing some suspension of belief, it's a pretty great spy show. It's similar to Spartacus in that after almost every episode, it feels like things have really shaken up. It might have the longest stretch of "holy poo poo was that a season finale?" ever. Also has an enclosed training environment like the ludus with similar dynamics and politicking. No boobies, but pretty ladies galore and Maggie Q lounging around in lingerie for no reason all the time.
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Strike Back is good, just started it. The banter between the main characters is really well done.
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