Tusen og ett liv

Day 28 - Given a choice, would you rather be a gladiator or a body slave? Neither! Guess it would have to be body slave, though - since my chances of surviving very long as a gladiator would be slim. .

Day 27 - What do you think the life of a gladiator was like? Uhh - what an extremely silly question!! For further answers - look to historypages like SPQRonline ore something. It is enough known about this that I don't have sit and speculate..

Day 26 - Which season is your favorite? The seasons are all good, but in very different ways. Gods of the Arena was a very good explanation of many of the things going on in the later seasons. Venegance was just great, but I must say I thought the first five episodes were much stronger than the last five. My favourite is Blood and Sand. It really stands on its own in many ways. The character development and each character's journey is really well thought out. The attention to detail was overwhelming. Each story and detail quickly made me see that this show was so much more than the sex and violence that follows along with it as well. 

Warning: Here be spoilers for the entire book! Now - who the hell picks these titles anyway? They are just horrible. I already commented on "The North Remembers". "The Night Lands" and "Garden of Bones" are both very much out of context and "What is Dead May Never Die" has lost all meaning when the ironborn don't baptize people by drowning and resuscitating them. Then there is the issue of this episode spending almost all time inventing story-lines that weaken the plot. Fart-jokes? Really? I expected a bit more - even if they were from Lannisport. I guess we open with the battle of Oxcross, and Robb meets Talyssa from Volantis. Do we really have to watch this? Robbs marriage to Jeyne Westerling happens off-screen in the books - and for good reason. These books are dark and full of terror - not sweet kisses and whispers of love. This love-story just doesn't feel like anything Martin would write. It only ends up grabbing focus from pl...

 Day 25 - Compare Andy and Liam I really don't like that people compare them. This wasn't an actor being replaced because of creative differences . The show was affected by a tragedy, and no one wanted this. I don't want to compare Liam to Andy. I it just really diminishes and disrespects both actors. Andy's illness and subsequent death was incredibly tragic. Liam has stepped into an impossible situation. He has constantly been compared and sometimes been disrespected - not because of his actual work, but because many fans of the show feel that liking Liam would betray the memory of Andy . But the fact is Andy wanted the show to continue. He wanted his colleagues to have the jobs they were counting on. I can only imagine how painful it must be for those who actually knew him in real life. Liam is brilliant. He brings his very best effort to this role. I have no complaints about him playing the role.

Day 24 - Team Romans or team Rebels? There is no question here really! The rebels have done awful things and that is of course not to be ignored. But the Romans institutionalize maltreatment of other human beings. Dionna, Sura, all of the gladiators killing each other for sport or in training, the phenomena of the pits, the way every other sexual encounter the Romans engage in is rape, the way they don't understand that non-Romans are also people - not animals, the crucifixions, killing and backstabbing each other, government subsidized torture, and killing each others' children. Team Rebels all the way!!

Day 23-Which cast memeber would you want to meet? Hm.. They all seem like nice people. I'm not the kind of person who craves to meet styars of a show. Any one would do, I think..