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Miers: Be Careful What We Wish For | 50 comments (50 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: It really sucked that their wasn't a new (none / 1)

NO kidding!

Well, Tracy, what would Atia do?

Hickok: "You know the sound of thunder. Can you imagine that sound if I ask you to? Ma'am, listen to the thunder."

by susanhu (susanhuatearthlinkdotnet) on Thu Oct 27th, 2005 at 11:06:17 AM EST
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She would sleep with Harriet (none / 0)

and ask personal questions about how and why George chose her and what did they mainly talk about, after she had paid several people to start a rumor that George had become recently alarmed because he had begun thinking that Harriet was total idiot. Oh yeah, and before Atia slept with her she would have thrown her a wonderful party to heal from the bumpy road and told Harriet how intelligent and stunning she was.

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by Militarytracy on Thu Oct 27th, 2005 at 11:11:26 AM EST
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Re: She would sleep with Harriet (none / 0)

Today, on such a sad day, do you she'd send Harriet one of her, um, gifts?

And what would her son Gaius Octavian -- i cheated and looked up the spelling at hbo.com/rome -- say about all this?

Titus Pullo would say, I'm just so sure, "Good riddance of that old bag."

P.S. True confession: I find the opening credits scenes to be utterly mesmerizing -- I stare, rapt, at those moving etchings and the guy with the wiggly snakes in his hair --

Hickok: "You know the sound of thunder. Can you imagine that sound if I ask you to? Ma'am, listen to the thunder."

by susanhu (susanhuatearthlinkdotnet) on Thu Oct 27th, 2005 at 11:20:57 AM EST
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This is kind of strange (none / 0)

and I'm still painting on the bedroom ceiling. But the walls look like the reddish orange background for the Rome logo. When my husband watched the first episode with me he said, "look honey, they copied you". I think it is about as accurate a portrayal of the Real Romans that we have thusfar. I love the opening credits too.

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by Militarytracy on Thu Oct 27th, 2005 at 12:11:47 PM EST
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Re: This is kind of strange (none / 1)

Kewl! WIll Tim and you join us on Sunday nights for a chat after the show? We did that with Deadwood, and it was a hoot.

Hickok: "You know the sound of thunder. Can you imagine that sound if I ask you to? Ma'am, listen to the thunder."

by susanhu (susanhuatearthlinkdotnet) on Thu Oct 27th, 2005 at 12:27:49 PM EST
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You bet!! (none / 1)

It's my Sunday treat for me. I run to my bedroom and shut the door and sink into the bed, it's like having a present to open.

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by Militarytracy on Thu Oct 27th, 2005 at 12:29:23 PM EST
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Re: You bet!! (none / 1)

Ohhhhh ...

I'm glad you give yourself presents. God knows you deserve them.

That's how I feel too. I turn off every light and lie down in bed to watch.

Rome hasn't won my heart like Deadwood did. But ... it's extraordinarily well done and, as you said, it seems to depict the Romans' lives far more realistically than we've ever seen.

I'm still bummed about Six Feet Under too.

We need more contemporary family dramas in a way that can be done as realistically as they can on censorship-freer HBO. Last Sunday, I tried watching 'Desperate Housewives" because there was no new Rome, but -- what a pale and tepid and faintly humorous contrast to something as poweful as Six Feet Under.

Say, have you watched "Weeds" on Showtime? It's a half-hour contemporary family drama that's also totally hilarious and makes fun of everything (a la South park). Its season is over now but it'll be rerun.

ALSO: "HUFF" is a brilliant contemporary family drama on Showtime. Blythe Danner just won an Emmy for playing Huff's mother. Huff, a psychiatrist, is Hank Azaria. The plots involve his patients and his troubled brother. Oliver Platt is Huff's best friend, clever attorney, and a mess. Darcy and I are crazy about it -- I think you can rent the first season DVD now.

Hickok: "You know the sound of thunder. Can you imagine that sound if I ask you to? Ma'am, listen to the thunder."

by susanhu (susanhuatearthlinkdotnet) on Thu Oct 27th, 2005 at 12:41:00 PM EST
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I haven't watched Weeds (none / 0)

I have enjoyed everything though that it seems that you enjoy televisionwise so I will give it a try. I have seen it on the guide list but I didn't know what it was about.

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by Militarytracy on Thu Oct 27th, 2005 at 12:46:12 PM EST
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Re: I haven't watched Weeds (none / 0)

I don't think that "Huff" and "Weeds" are replaying on Showtime right now, but they will. The acting alone is reason to watch both. But they're also quirky, touching, and wild like Six Feet Under.

I never got into "The L Word." Should i?

Hickok: "You know the sound of thunder. Can you imagine that sound if I ask you to? Ma'am, listen to the thunder."

by susanhu (susanhuatearthlinkdotnet) on Thu Oct 27th, 2005 at 01:01:56 PM EST
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Re: She would sleep with Harriet (none / 1)

That's actually my favorite part of the show - the title music also sticks in my head...

"History is ruthless, and will never flatter anybody." Zhou Enlai

by Other Lisa (redandexpert at that mega-ISP called yahoo.) on Thu Oct 27th, 2005 at 12:20:37 PM EST
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Re: She would sleep with Harriet (none / 0)

Okay! This does it! We'll have a ROME diary on Sunday nights ...

i tried one when it first began.

And that last episode, with Cleopatra and the boy king! omg!

Hickok: "You know the sound of thunder. Can you imagine that sound if I ask you to? Ma'am, listen to the thunder."

by susanhu (susanhuatearthlinkdotnet) on Thu Oct 27th, 2005 at 12:26:22 PM EST
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The only reason I continued to watch was (none / 1)

because you put the Rome diary up. I was bummed about 6 Feet Under going under, I didn't want to give the series a chance. I watched the first episode a little biased against it, but you put the Rome diary up and I thought I would hang out a little while longer to check it out.

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by Militarytracy on Thu Oct 27th, 2005 at 12:31:13 PM EST
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Between you and Tracy (none / 1)

talking about Rome, I'm going to have to suck it up and get HBO!

I loved the Deadwood series when I watched it on DVD...and it was the discussions here that got me interested in watching it.

by CabinGirl on Thu Oct 27th, 2005 at 12:35:37 PM EST
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Re: She would sleep with Harriet (none / 1)

Try dancing to the music! My cats find that really interestnig.

Hickok: "You know the sound of thunder. Can you imagine that sound if I ask you to? Ma'am, listen to the thunder."

by susanhu (susanhuatearthlinkdotnet) on Thu Oct 27th, 2005 at 12:28:22 PM EST
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