Sorry about the spoilers. I should have thought about the show airing in other countries on a different schedule. The same thing happened to me, in reverse, with "Spooks" (which aired in the U.S. as "MI-5"). Someone blew the whole third season for me. Then again, the third season pretty much blew in itself.

Yes, I remember the graffiti. That was Atia it referred to. Now there is one red-hot Roman mama!



>Damn you Mike
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>We're only on episode 4 here and you've just ruined it for me! :-)
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>I had great hopes for this series, in the 1st episode, but now it's just descended into a soap. I couldn't give a damn whether the centurian's wife got pregnant by another man, or whatever, I expected to watch an historical romp through the emperors, but we've still got JC chasing Pompey around. I expected some more "sword & sandal" but all we're getting is "pork sword".
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>I read that it lost 49% of its US audience after the 1st episode.
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>It didn't pass the "dormice" test, i.e. how long it takes before the 1st person, in an implausibly uncomfortable reclining position, is offered dormice as a snack. It took 40 minutes and, as such, didn't do too badly on that score.
>I do enjoy the Latin graffiti though - you've got to be quick - like " [somebody] FELAT [somebody else]"
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>Also, they want to get their latin right. OK the slaves address the mistress as "Domina" but the master as "Dominus", whereas we all know that the vocative is "Domine" :-)
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>Terry