They should recast, I think Andy will understand.
Aye there is plenty, PLENTY of stuff to draw from history regarding Spartacus and the whole Servile War. Throughout it, the Romans kept backstabbing eachother and fighting for the honour to be the one to crack the slave army.
Only question I got is how they'd work with showing a moving army, with all the locations and people it would need for the set. In the first season, they worked with quite a few number of sets because they didn't need more for the brilliant plot.
The worst episode of season 1 were imo the first where they tried to show the Roman army on the move in Thrace and it just didn't click well with me at least. Hopefully they can pull it off better with the roaming slave army.
300 managed it with CGI and 50 hairy arsed blokes. It can be done and the next season will definately have a bigger budget as they have sold the show globally.
Just hope Andy gets well, He's no worse than Sam Worthington who's pulling in top dollar in Hollywood!
In case you've all forgotten, the prequel starts in a couple of days
Loving the new series I was dissapointed the random cuts to the cheering crowd had no random girls with their tits out tho!