vaznetti | Rome: Triumph (Reply)

Wah! A rift! I don't want there to be a rift! Pullo and Vorenus are supposed to be best friends forever! with benefits! Wah!!!

OK, but note that even when Vorenus is chucking him out, Pullo doesn't tell him about Niobe's affair. He's such a gentlemen, except when he succumbs to sudden violent rages and beats someone's head in. You could kind of see that something was going to go wrong, but I didn't realize it would go that wrong. Poor Pullo. Poor Eirene and, of course, poor anonymous slave boyfriend.

At least we got to see Cassius. Yay, Cassius! And I rather like that Servilia wrote the pamphlets about Cato. And that Caesar mentioned his need to respond (he did write an "Anti-Cato" as a response to Cicero's laudatory pamphlet on Cato.) Brutus us still kind of a pain in the ass, but that's very much in character and (I believe) historically accurate.

I liked the triumph, and Vercingetorix. I would have liked to see the temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus. I loved the exchange between Caesar and Antony -- the way Caesar completely overrode Antony's mockery. No, it's not a game to Caesar.

There were other things I liked here, but I'll write about them later. Maybe. The senatorial politics are still confusing me.

ETA: And on a totally unrelated note, I turned on that "Category 7" disaster movie. And I realize that I may well get kicked out of the Krycek-fan club for this, but Nick Lea is looking kind of skanky these days.