Happy anniversary to me!

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Well, 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 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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Happy Anniversary to you. I loved Rome - thought it was very well done. Was completely convinced by Kevin McKidd myself, even though the only time I'd ever seen him on TV was in an episode of Father Ted.

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Oh, don't get me wrong - he's a very good actor. But seeing him among that cast is like a game of "one of these things doesn't belong," lol. They hung a lantern on it at one point (when he's running for magistrate?) where he admits he looks Gallic, but is in fact Roman.

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It's true. He doesn't look terribly Roman, but then none of them do, except perhaps Indira Verma, who played Kevin McKidd's wife, though she's actually Indian.

Just a bunch of Brit thesps - good actors, but also very cheap to hire. :)

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

Rome was lots of fun, if historically shaky. And the second Season is even more fun with Simon Woods taking over the role of Octavian, plus you have all the drama of Antony and Cleopatra.

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Awww, but the younger Octavian was so cute. He didn't seem like emperor material, though, lol, so perhaps it's for the best.

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

Awww, but the younger Octavian was so cute. He didn't seem like emperor material, though, lol, so perhaps it's for the best

Not to mention the graphic sex scenes...

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Ah. Right. :\

Maybe I'm just not used to it on American TV, but the sex scenes in Rome seemed particularly gratuitous.

[menomegirl.livejournal.com]

Happy anniversary , sweetie!

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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Hahaha, I didn't realize there was a Xena version of events. I've never seen it.

[menomegirl.livejournal.com]

O-o

Hee!

The episodes that included Caesar are among my top favorites.

[silverusagi]

On Xena, the guy who plays Eomer on LotR plays Caesar.

[slaymesoftly.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you had a good fourth of July weekend. Long weekend, I presume?
A whole year? Wow.

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Yep, long weekend. (Not long enough! There should be a law that no one has to work if it's over 100 degrees. The pool is the only appropriate place for me.)

[jongibbs.livejournal.com]

Happy Move-to-DC-versary :)

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Hee! Thanks! :)

[dragonflylady77.livejournal.com]

Happy Anniversary!

60 days of posting, wow!

I remember Polly Walker from the movie Emma with the yummy Jeremy Northam. :)

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Thanks! I am somewhat impressed with my streak, although it's possible my flist is getting tired of me, lol.

[dragonflylady77.livejournal.com]

Never!

[mikeda.livejournal.com]

Happy Anniversary!

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Thank you!