Re: ROME Season Finale (spoilers only if you\'re retarded)
 

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Moral: guy who sells out gets ruined; guy who stays true to himself and murders girl's fiance by repeatedly slamming his head into a post gets the girl in the end.

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Well, Pullo is a thug. At least he did not compromise his beliefs to become a prefect and eventually a Senator.

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let's remember that Vorenas becamse Senator by saving Pullo -- in direct defiance of an explicit order from Caesar -- from certain death in the arena after Pullo was condemned to death after cold-blooded murder-for-hire (an act that Vorenas earlier refused to perform when faced with similar dire straits).

don't get me wrong, i like Pullo as much as the next guy but let's not be so quick to cast him as Vorenas's moral superior. Pullo doesn't compromise his beliefs because he has very few to compromise ... throughout the series, Pullo makes it clear that believes in little more than himself (and loyalty to the 13th Legion). He doesn't believe in gods nor the Republic, and only begins to believe in love after spending time with Vorenas and his family.

in the end, two people who couldn't have been further apart end up influencing one another's actions and beliefs.

Re: ROME Season Finale (spoilers only if you\'re retarded)
 

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I thought they made many efforts to be historically accurate. (As accurate as possible for a narrative series anyway). What were some of the inaccuracies?

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I could care less about the writers taking a few liberties with the historical accuracy in order to create an enjoyable story.

However, since you asked...despite what last night's episode would have you believe, Octavian was not in Rome when Caesar was asassinated. He was in Illyricum and set out for Rome in order to avenge Caesar's death when he learned of the asassination. However, he discovered on his way back to Rome that Caesar had secretly made Octavian his heir. The whole scene with Octavian and his mother being threatened by Servilia would have never happened. Octavian was a grown man with a fair bit of power and influence by this time. He wasn't a young boy who would have been tagging along with his mother. In reality, he returned to Rome and formed an alliance with Marc Antony and Marcus Lepidus before becoming Emperor a couple of decades later after both Antony and Lepidus were killed.