He is not Spartacus, actually
Feb. 14th, 2011 01:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ivyficI have started watching Spartacus: Blood and Sand. Everyone told me it was bad. And it is. Really, really bad. It's like a porn director got hold of a pulp gladiator script and a big visual effects budget. Or it's like Rob Tappert finally got a show on a channel where he could show naked, oiled, writhing women to his heart's content. (And naked, oiled, writhing men, too.)
I mean what can you really say about a show that, every time it shows a crowd, there's a woman baring her breasts? Where the Vis FX guys use CGI spurts of blood the way the sound designers on Xena used whooshes? Where it has an episode titled "Whore"? And by the way, so amused that Michael Hurst directed that episode (if you don't know who that is, see icon).
I know, I know, I shouldn't nitpick this show because that way lies madness, but no way would anyone mistake Spartacus for Crixus, even with a mask.
1 - Crixus is enormously bigger than Spartacus. He has that I-can't-lower-my-arms-to-my-sides type of build.
2 - Crixus has large, noticeable, recently healed (plot point) scars on his chest and back. Spartacus does not.
3 - Crixus has a scar on the back of his head that is very visible through his hair.
In conclusion, I recognize it would be a bit awkward, when you are presented with a naked, gilded man who is there to service you, to ask the proprietress if this is really the man you asked for, because you thought he'd be bigger. But really.
I mean what can you really say about a show that, every time it shows a crowd, there's a woman baring her breasts? Where the Vis FX guys use CGI spurts of blood the way the sound designers on Xena used whooshes? Where it has an episode titled "Whore"? And by the way, so amused that Michael Hurst directed that episode (if you don't know who that is, see icon).
I know, I know, I shouldn't nitpick this show because that way lies madness, but no way would anyone mistake Spartacus for Crixus, even with a mask.
1 - Crixus is enormously bigger than Spartacus. He has that I-can't-lower-my-arms-to-my-sides type of build.
2 - Crixus has large, noticeable, recently healed (plot point) scars on his chest and back. Spartacus does not.
3 - Crixus has a scar on the back of his head that is very visible through his hair.
In conclusion, I recognize it would be a bit awkward, when you are presented with a naked, gilded man who is there to service you, to ask the proprietress if this is really the man you asked for, because you thought he'd be bigger. But really.