Rome - The series!

[Rulke]

Anyone else watched this yet? It's a new series in the states set in Rome at the end of the republic, 1st episode is just after Alesia.

Seems fairly accurate (if you care!) otherwise it's still good

Only 3 eps available so far, but its something to watch til Lost starts again

 

[Draylor]

Yup, seems pretty good so far. Apparently BBC will show this later this year if anyones interested.

A warning to anyone using bittorrent etc: HBO love playing silly games sending folks bad data and throwing fake files around. Dont be surprised to see 'odd' things if your trying to obtain this

 

[adams901]

thanks for making me aware of this series, it is definatly worth watching and I cant wait for ep 3.

Definatly one I will buy on DVD.

 

[Clown]

Looks good. I'm not downloading them though because public trackers have aids. Looks like I'm waiting for BBC to show them.

 

[Yaka]

im enjoying it, every second either some its getting gutted :eek2: or boobs are flashed about :eek2:

 

[Ch3tan]

Aseries in the true spirit of HBO then

Bring back Oz!

 

[Whipped]

A solution for the bad trackers. Get something called PeerGuardian2 (Opologies if this is a very well known peice of software). It sits between your internet connection and torrent app and blocks connects from bad seeders. Worked a treat for Rome for me and boy does it block a lot of connections.

There's a manual list that needs adding, but I'll let you find that on your own.

 

[Escape]

The SafePeer plugin for Azureus is easier to manage and uses the same IP blocklist as PeerGuardian.


How historically accurate is the series?

 

[Cyradix]

Hmmm.... I'll have to try that cause my torrent of episode 3 is stuck at 99.8%

 

[inactionman]

Having no difficulty getting them off emule, already have 1/2 of episode 4.

A friend of mine is telling me the series is fairly historically accurate so far, in terms of the political events that are happening, as for the rest, well it's a tv show isn't it!

 

[Draylor]

How historically accurate is the series?

That probably depends how much detail you know of roman history.

For me its good enough: so far theres nothing that leaves you screaming 'thats not right ...'. Reasonably accurate historical dramas are not what you normally expect from US TV, but so far this is damn good.

And Ch3tan, the traditions of HBO and Oz are alive and well: theres too much male nudity in this too Either the BBC will edit this or it will be hidden away late night on BBC2. Shame really.

 

[Chilly]

lol, dray loves teh cock

 

[Yaka]

Spoiler

was laffing me arse off when cesar suffers a fit, and his nephew and slave have to hide him, and the screaming makes the cook think they are having 3 some gh3y fest

 

[Clown]

How many episodes are out? What are these DVD rips going around?

 

[Draylor]

Chilly:

Clown: 4 so far. DVD rips depends what your seeing, probably just the result of someone recording it from TV->DVD.

 

[Clown]

I got 4 last night, usenet rocks. The HBO website is showing episode 5 though?

 

[Draylor]

Either a trailer, or they are showing 'next weeks' episode on their on-demand thingy: in a similar way channel4 do with C4/E4. They did that at the start (ep2 available immediately after 1 was shown), dunno if they still are.

 

[Escape]

I've yet to try usenet. Do you just search the usergroups your ISP links you to, or is there a need to subscribe to a usergroup service?


Rome is definately an entertaining show, though the nudity is mostly unecessary.

 

[Clown]

I don't have an ISP usenet server, so I'm corrently subscribed to Eurofeeds.

 

[Yaka]

hehehe that kids fucking mental

Spoiler

kid: youve never Tortured a man before?
man: no they have specialist for that.......
kid: cut his fingers off!

 

[Chilly]

Aye octavius is a top geezer. He knows whats going on. I liked it when...

Spoiler

his mum hired a whore for him to lose his cherry, wish my mum was so generous

 

[inactionman]

Of course I assume everyone knows that he becomes Emperor Octavius...

HBO seem to have been up to some funny business about downloading Rome, so much so that I had to finally start using IPFilters on emule!

 

[Talivar]

ppl probally know him better as Augustus or however its spelled

 

[Escape]

What spoilers! I thought he had something to do with spiderman 2

 

[Talivar]

He does but we didnt wanna ruin that twist for you !

 

[Yaka]

Of course I assume everyone knows that he becomes Emperor Octavius...

HBO seem to have been up to some funny business about downloading Rome, so much so that I had to finally start using IPFilters on emule!

aye, cesar never had his own kid so took his nephew under his wing.
i wonder if they will go the whole hog with this series as its got fuck loads to cover even after cesars death

 

[Clown]

Lesbo Action

 

[Whipped]

Cesar Dies!!!! spoilers!!!

Spoiler

Not just lesbo action, but a nice bit of self pleasuring from the cute girly

 

[Chilly]

oh aye, they turned up the smut-rating this week

Romans knew how to do it.

 

[Yaka]

Spoiler

just hope with pompeii dead there will more blood in it