Artificius wrote:
I've apparently got a low tolerance for the blood, so I'm slowly working through the early part of the series, but I kind of like it. I'm really looking forward to Crassus turning up. It's a shame filmmakers and scriptwriters focus on the time right around Caesar and the formal transition to empire though, or the later imperial corruption. They really ought to do a series that focuses on the politics and intrigue of the middle Republic, particularly right around the second Punic war. You'd get blood, and much less of it Roman-on-Roman, comradery, a greatness of spirit, and a truly epic conflict, though it might be too big and foreign this far in the future to do it justice even on the big screen.
I'd like something about the Migrations Period, and the split&fall of the Roman Empire as well. There is not much about medieval or early medieval on film or as tv series. Discounting legendary stuff like King Arthur or Beowulf.