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Apr. 3rd, 2009 11:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
froodleHah! Oh man, I had forgotten how much I liked that bit in the final episode where Vorenus finishes laying out Mark Anthony in state (is that a spoiler? I think everyone knows that Mark Anthony dies in the end) and Cleopatra walks in and Vorenus is all, *glare* and Cleopatra's like, "Lucius Vorenus has something he wishes to say?" and Vorenus is like, "No," and she's all, "Then he will stop looking at me!" and Vorenus sort of leans forward and super-glares at her in this really insolent way and I'm not describing it well but it's fucking hilarious, 'cause Vorenus is quite a glary character anyway but this is him dialling it all the way up to 11 and it's like - okay, you know that bit in Raiders of the Lost Arc where they open the Arc and the Nazi dudes' face melts off? The Arc could have contained the Level 11 Vorenus Glare. If the Care Bear Stare and Chernobyl had a baby, it would be Vorenus's glare at that moment.
And oh, Agrippa, I love you. That scene where Cleopatra dies and he asks Octavian what she whispered to him and Octavian's like, *visably shaken* "She said I had a rotten soul," and Agrippa just says "Ah," and you can tell that what he really means is, "Yeah, that's fair, you suck," and it's so understated and yet such an epicly harsh burn, I love it.
Also huge love for Atia's final scene, for this fucking beautiful exchange with Octavian's creepy-ass wife:
Livia: Oh, I don't mind really, but it is really I who should go first. If you consult the priests, I'll think you'll find the wife takes precedence.
Atia: I don't give a fuck what the priests say! I'll not let a vicious little trollop like you walk ahead of me. I go first.
Livia: I take no offense, of course. You are not yourself.
Atia: I know who you are. I can see you. You're swearing now that, someday, you'll destroy me. Remember that far better women than you have sworn to do the same. Go look for them now.
Anyway, I am now exactly in the mood to watch Alexander, so I'm going to do that. Please have Alexander/Hephaistion porn waiting for when I get back.
And oh, Agrippa, I love you. That scene where Cleopatra dies and he asks Octavian what she whispered to him and Octavian's like, *visably shaken* "She said I had a rotten soul," and Agrippa just says "Ah," and you can tell that what he really means is, "Yeah, that's fair, you suck," and it's so understated and yet such an epicly harsh burn, I love it.
Also huge love for Atia's final scene, for this fucking beautiful exchange with Octavian's creepy-ass wife:
Livia: Oh, I don't mind really, but it is really I who should go first. If you consult the priests, I'll think you'll find the wife takes precedence.
Atia: I don't give a fuck what the priests say! I'll not let a vicious little trollop like you walk ahead of me. I go first.
Livia: I take no offense, of course. You are not yourself.
Atia: I know who you are. I can see you. You're swearing now that, someday, you'll destroy me. Remember that far better women than you have sworn to do the same. Go look for them now.
Anyway, I am now exactly in the mood to watch Alexander, so I'm going to do that. Please have Alexander/Hephaistion porn waiting for when I get back.
