http://breakinglight11.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] breakinglight11.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] breakinglight11 2010-04-01 05:36 pm (UTC)

I have actually! I enjoyed it overall, though there were parts I liked and parts I didn't. Some things I thought they nailed, and some they didn't. Their Mark Antony was really in line with my view of him (I believe his introduction into the series was his men waiting around on a hillside for him to finish banging a shepherdess against a tree so they can continue their march) but I hated their cold, spoiled Octavian. And some of the random gratuitous stuff (Octavia and Servilia? Octavia and Octavian? WHAT?) made me roll my eyes. In general, though, I liked their major characters and I thought they interpreted the history into story well.

And one thing I found kind of charming was that it also felt very much like an extremely well-written, fleshed out RP campaign in places. Vorenus and Pullo were the PCs against the backdrop of the historical characters! Especially when they were so clearly on "fetch quests" (go get the Eagle standard back!) or having "RP time" (Vorenus returning home to his family) or "that PC just did some screwy but kind of interesting thing I didn't expect" moments (Pullo trying to make the slave girl love him by killing her husband and taking her hostage).

Oh, what a geek am I. :-)

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