Spartacus: House of Ashur

This is the effect of getting old. 15 years ago when Spartacus first aired, Lucy Lawless probably was the "much older lady" to most of us. Now, the character is probably in your prime dating range, but her character hasn't aged. So you still think of her as the older lady in your mind even though she's not.

Meanwhile she's pretty close in age to this other chick, Claudia Black who for some reason some of you remember as being hot. I think you all found her attractive from Farscape? Which was a quarter century ago. She's actually old, not the 20-something you remember.

i just turned 40 make it stop

I really enjoyed the first few seasons of this show. It's just violence, blood, and sex. Brainless, enjoyable entertainment.

I gave this season a shot despite all the clues suggesting some jogger Shanequa was going to be the star and never made it beyond half way through the first episode. Maybe it gets better, but what I saw was terrible. It was so bad that it felt like I was watching an SNL parody of the first couple seasons. Ashur was a perfectly fine, interesting even, supporting character, but the dude cannot carry this show.

Grabbit Allworth said:

I really enjoyed the first few seasons of this show. It's just violence, blood, and sex. Brainless, enjoyable entertainment.

I gave this season a shot despite all the clues suggesting some jogger Shanequa was going to be the star and never made it beyond half way through the first episode. Maybe it gets better, but what I saw was terrible. It was so bad that it felt like I was watching an SNL parody of the first couple seasons. Ashur was a perfectly fine, interesting even, supporting character, but the dude cannot carry this show.

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She's not in the first episode.

Bald Brah said:

She's not in the first episode.

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Never said she was, but she's all over the trailers and she's a huge part of the season -- right?

I don't understand the point of your post.

You're reviewing a show you admittedly haven't even watched. I'm up to episode 5 and there is very little if any girl bossery. Shaniqua is a minor part of the show with very little screen time. Most of the show revolves around Ashur and the political intrigue. The gladiators are not given the bulk of the screen time and the woman is treated exactly as she would have been. A side show. Granted her limited screen time is pretty bad. She obviously can't swing a sword to save her life IRL and her fight choreography is terrible. But everyone else is excellent and the show is leaning more into Julius Ceasar as the main antagonist.

Everything about the show is a continuation of what happened after season 3 so if you liked that this is more of the same.

Grabbit Allworth said:

Never said she was, but she's all over the trailers and she's a huge part of the season -- right?

I don't understand the point of your post.

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Also commenting without personally watching.. Randomfilmtalk has been reviewing them.

sortof. He asserts she starts off well.
Ashur is an atypical Domini. He doesn't care about tradition. only spectacle. He saw how profitable dwarves fighting was. so, picked her up and put her into the stable purely for the novelty of it.

She gets her ass kicked, is abused, nearly raped by the others. She ripes a dudes dick off to avoid rape. this only makes them hate her more. she is too weak to raise a shield. (which instead of just giving her a lighter shield... they give her 2 swords...)
Ashur, who is a shit gladiator, kicks her ass, repeatedly.

he does assert it all goes to shit though. epi 3 iirc? suddenly she turns into superman. Wins a 3v1 against 3 properly trained gladiators in a fair fight. which is just stupid.

Ep6 was another good one. Shaniquatus was unconscious the whole episode but we get some good intrigue and back stabbing. I haven't seen dwarf actors this good since Time Bandits. Fuck that little game of thrones idiot.