Comments on: Friends, Romans, countrymen!

By: Younghusband

Younghusband — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 03:55:26 +0000

FK200,

Alexander sucked, Rome is good so far, and Lawrence of Arabia rules them all!

Haven’t seen BoB yet… it’s on my list.

By: Cullen Masterson

Cullen Masterson — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 02:19:50 +0000

Well, the image didn’t work … no matter, it’s at the Wiki article posted below it.

By the way, I like the new links: Fellow Travelers, Thinking Contrarians, Japanophiles, Boots on the Ground (!), and so on. To heck with Yahoo, Msn.com & the other “portals” … Coming Anarchy is far more rewarding.

By: Cullen Masterson

Cullen Masterson — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 02:13:28 +0000

I’m not sure Bruno Heller is correct when he says:

“… They had no prosaic God telling them right from wrong and how to behave. It was a strictly personal morality …”

Mithraism was popular, particularly with soldiers.

Wikipedia article

By: Younghusband

Younghusband — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 22:51:50 +0000

Just watched the first 2 episodes. Pretty impressive so far. The surgery scene was excruciating! And all the pagan sex and bulls blood, oh my! The Victorian side of me is appalled! Wot wot!

By: FK200

FK200 — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 20:17:24 +0000

I watched three first episodes of Rome and that’s all I’m gonna watch. To me it’s a huge miss from HBO! Not even close to quality of Band of Brothers, and to be honest – I don’t think it should mentioned in the same sentence.

The movie Alexander is great, Rome from HBO is brilliant, what next? Lawrence of Arabia sucks??