I’ve been amused by the way the numbers of slave army vacillates wildly. Its like the knights in “Monty Python’s Holy Grail”, sometime it shows tens of thousands of them, some times its just the main characters plus a few extras standing around. Its been especially egregious the last few episodes.
The show has been pretty impressive creating something epic with limited moneys (recall Rome and Game of Thrones had a tendency of just skipping battles since they were too expensive) so I shouldn’t make fun. But you can feel the show straining against its production budget sometimes, like with large groups of people.
Also, I was excited for the encore of “My Cock Rages On” last night.
So Junior has bought it, at the hands of the slave girl, thanks to Ceaser’s intrigue. The final battle is upon us. I really hope that the finale lives up. The first season and (especially) the prequel had awesome finales. If it can approach it, then we will be well served.
I wonder who we will see crucified along the Rome Capua road. I do not hold out much hope for the German Chick, the cute slavegirl, the Roman Lady and Nasir, especially since Agron has already been crucified (and survived). I suspect that they might give Sparty and Gannicus an out.
I really hope that they have somehow got John Hannah and Lucy Lawless as well as Peter Mensah back for the finale, even if it is for a cameo. I doubt it, but I can hope.
Ends. Sparty dies peacefully. The Romans crucify Gannicus. Agron and other survivors go off onto the Gallic sunset, toawait Ceaser in 20 years. Not highbrow, but a damn fine drama.
I liked that they had the “I am Spartacus” moment, even if it was different from the Kirk Douglas movie. And was Kore strapped but not nailed to the crucifix?
When Gannicus took the roman army from the back and started firing their own ballistae on them i figured they were going to pull an Inglorious Basterds kinda thing and have Spartacus win. Maybe to then lose to Pompei or something.
This was just pointed out to me, the very first episode of the first season was titled “The red serpent” and it contained this conversation between Spartacus and his wife:
Sura: “The gods came to me last night, in my sleep.”
Spartacus: “What did they show you?”
Sura: “My husband on his knees, bowing before a great red serpent. The life draining from his veins.”
Spartacus: “What meaning did you take from it?”
Sura: “A warning. If you go to war, you are destined for great and unfortunate things.”
And during the finale Agron shows up with a shield with a red serpent on it and Spartacus looks at it for a moment and says “great and unfortunate things” and when Agron asks what he is talking about he says “A warning from loving wife to a man who no longer exists”.
Yeah the credit sequence for the final episode was pretty cool, using images from all previous seasons and characters that we haven’t seen since the first year, like Barca & his boy, and Varo. I thought it a nice touch that the very last image at the end was Andy Whitfield shouting “I am Spartacus!” A fitting final end to the series.
I agree the final was well done and satisfying. I think they could do a spin off of Caesar’s rise to power with the same characters, and not wimp out on the battle scenes like HBO’s “Rome” did, and I would watch it.
