Blood and Sand

[czeri]

I’ve managed to tear myself away from Gods of the Arena long enough to re-watch Blood and Sand.

Damn, I miss Andy Whitfield. I forgot what a great character Spartacus was when Andy played him. Everything else seemed worse than I remembered, though:

• Lucretia’s obsession with Crixus made her unpalatably pathetic. I much prefer 2nd season Lucretia.



• Batiatus was also much better in the 2nd season, when he and Lucretia were a team rather than him doing all this stuff behind her back and against her will.



• The special effects were awful, particularly the CG fatal wounds during fights.



• The ‘inside the helmet’ cam during fights was silly.

Some other things I’ve noticed:

• Agron really was gay from the beginning, wasn’t he. I was snickering when Illythia was selecting her gladiator by the size of his cock and Agron was the only one who stared at her choice as opposed to looking straight ahead. I guess he was lucky in that he got two traits for his character (protective of his brother and gay), which gave him layers compared to poor Duro who only got one – eager to prove himself.



• Why didn’t Batiatus have a Crixus bust in his champions room? I haven’t really looked at them all closely, but Batiatus said those were all his father’s and grandfather’s champions. Or maybe he had one made, but Lucretia moved it to her chambers…

I haven’t really explored the special features too much other than the fact track (although I’ve only noticed it and turned it on from episode 5 onwards), which I really enjoyed. Gladiator trade unions FTW!

I’m not going to bother with a proper re-watch of the third season until the blu rays come out. I still remember the plot fairly well, so all I’m concentrating on is the eye-candy. Which brings me to my major gripe with Vengeance - what the hell were they thinking choosing Gannicus’ wardrobe?! I get that as he’s no longer a gladiator he wouldn’t really be running around in just the subligaria; and that they wanted to show via his clothes that he’d been travelling, but covering him up with all that ugly fabric is unforgivable. Why couldn’t he just keep his outfit from the arena?! That, I thought, worked very well in episode 6. Someone better steal his current clothes, or burn them, by the beginning of the 4th season…

Comments

[fififolle]

Heee! Awesome comments.
And I suddenly realise that maybe Gannicus' wardrobe is what makes me not like him as much as the others, LOL!! Because he's a pretty boy, but my god he wore silly clothes *g*

[czeri.livejournal.com]

Yes, those clothes are an abomination. They almost make me look forward to Gannicus hooking up with Saxa on the off chance he'll take a page out of Agron and Nasir's book and give them to her ;-)

[fififolle]

*snort*