Happy anniversary to me!
Jul. 5th, 2010 03:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
next_to_normalWell, this is quite a landmark weekend for me. First, July 3rd was the one-year anniversary of my move to DC. Yay! Second, obviously, was the 4th of July. I celebrated by going to the pool, then heading to a friend's house for a barbecue and watching fireworks on the Mall, which was pretty awesome.
And today marks the 60th day of my posting streak. Yep, I have posted every single day for two months, with nearly 100 posts in that time. This is the longest unbroken string of posts ever on my journal. Go me!
I also need to express Epic Woe at the lack of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
penny_lane_42 lately. WHERE ARE YOU LAUREN??? YOU ARE MY TV TWIN! COME BACK!
Speaking of TV, I finished season 1 of Rome. I liked it, but I have very little to say about it. I will admit, I had a lot of trouble following it in the beginning, because I couldn't tell the characters apart. The only people I recognized were Polly Walker (from Caprica), Suzie from Torchwood (whose real name I don't remember), and Kevin McKidd (whom I completely can't buy as an ancient Roman. He's just so... Scottish). Everyone else was a jumble (too many old guys, mostly), and so I had to follow along with the Wikipedia episode summaries to know what was going on. After a while, it got easier, once they used people's names enough times to match them up with faces. (Am I the only one who thinks that the guy playing Caesar looks like Alan Rickman, lol?)
Pretty much my entire knowledge of Roman history comes second-hand from my college friends who were classics majors (um, I remember Catullus), so I don't know how historically accurate it is, but the costumes and sets sure look spectacular.
It seemed rather rushed at the end there - when Cassius finally appeared in, like, the third to last episode, I thought, "He kinda came out of nowhere. He's rather important, and we're just meeting him now?" And I felt like they were trying to make Brutus sympathetic, but didn't really spend enough time on it, so it comes off as kind of half-assed. I did think the assassination scene (um, spoiler? Everybody knows Caesar dies, right?) was (gruesomely) well done, though. Happy birthday to me? lol
And today marks the 60th day of my posting streak. Yep, I have posted every single day for two months, with nearly 100 posts in that time. This is the longest unbroken string of posts ever on my journal. Go me!
I also need to express Epic Woe at the lack of
penny_lane_42 lately. WHERE ARE YOU LAUREN??? YOU ARE MY TV TWIN! COME BACK!Speaking of TV, I finished season 1 of Rome. I liked it, but I have very little to say about it. I will admit, I had a lot of trouble following it in the beginning, because I couldn't tell the characters apart. The only people I recognized were Polly Walker (from Caprica), Suzie from Torchwood (whose real name I don't remember), and Kevin McKidd (whom I completely can't buy as an ancient Roman. He's just so... Scottish). Everyone else was a jumble (too many old guys, mostly), and so I had to follow along with the Wikipedia episode summaries to know what was going on. After a while, it got easier, once they used people's names enough times to match them up with faces. (Am I the only one who thinks that the guy playing Caesar looks like Alan Rickman, lol?)
Pretty much my entire knowledge of Roman history comes second-hand from my college friends who were classics majors (um, I remember Catullus), so I don't know how historically accurate it is, but the costumes and sets sure look spectacular.
It seemed rather rushed at the end there - when Cassius finally appeared in, like, the third to last episode, I thought, "He kinda came out of nowhere. He's rather important, and we're just meeting him now?" And I felt like they were trying to make Brutus sympathetic, but didn't really spend enough time on it, so it comes off as kind of half-assed. I did think the assassination scene (um, spoiler? Everybody knows Caesar dies, right?) was (gruesomely) well done, though. Happy birthday to me? lol
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Date: Jul. 5th, 2010 07:57 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: Jul. 6th, 2010 01:41 pm (UTC)Just a bunch of Brit thesps - good actors, but also very cheap to hire. :)
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Date: Jul. 5th, 2010 08:23 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: Jul. 5th, 2010 10:41 pm (UTC)Not to mention the graphic sex scenes...
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Date: Jul. 6th, 2010 04:29 pm (UTC)Maybe I'm just not used to it on American TV, but the sex scenes in Rome seemed particularly gratuitous.
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Date: Jul. 5th, 2010 08:54 pm (UTC)I haven't watched any Rome. I did hear it was very good but ... I kinda liked the Xena, Warrior Princess version of events so ... that's my story and I'm sticking to it. :)
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Date: Jul. 5th, 2010 11:06 pm (UTC)Hee!
The episodes that included Caesar are among my top favorites.
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Date: Jul. 6th, 2010 03:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Jul. 5th, 2010 09:42 pm (UTC)A whole year? Wow.
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Date: Jul. 6th, 2010 01:07 am (UTC)60 days of posting, wow!
I remember Polly Walker from the movie Emma with the yummy Jeremy Northam. :)
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