I still want to know under what legal system Octavian has control over his mother, who surely married his father sine manu.
Hahahahahahaha! Surely you don't think the writers actually care about Roman law? They don't appear to care about anything else aside from really nice sets.
At the moment I think the writers want to have their cake and eat it too; there's the prurient issue of women out of control and then the advantage of showing Octavian to be sexually a bit odd and obsessed with controlling women.
Yes, I think you're right. It's all a bit gratuitous, and frankly is the kind of attitude I don't mind so much in Tacitus but find more than a little off-putting in my own contemporaries. And Octavian comes out of it all seeming rather a comic book villain, except with less personality.
I was thinking this morning that they could have done the Livia thing rather neatly -- if she hadn't been there as a prospective bride, but as a chaperone, but he saw her and decided all at once, "That's the woman for me."
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Hahahahahahaha! Surely you don't think the writers actually care about Roman law? They don't appear to care about anything else aside from really nice sets.
At the moment I think the writers want to have their cake and eat it too; there's the prurient issue of women out of control and then the advantage of showing Octavian to be sexually a bit odd and obsessed with controlling women.
Yes, I think you're right. It's all a bit gratuitous, and frankly is the kind of attitude I don't mind so much in Tacitus but find more than a little off-putting in my own contemporaries. And Octavian comes out of it all seeming rather a comic book villain, except with less personality.
I was thinking this morning that they could have done the Livia thing rather neatly -- if she hadn't been there as a prospective bride, but as a chaperone, but he saw her and decided all at once, "That's the woman for me."