Rome

I watched the first episode of Rome's first season last night. The show originally aired on HBO, but I watched it on a DVD that Netflix mailed to my apartment. I am not very good at remembering history, and part of me wants to believe that Rome is really in Greece, but I think it is not. I layed on the couch after feeding the cats and pressed play on the DVD remote control.

I have mixed emotions about the first episode. I was a little confused about who was who, and I had a hard time paying attention to the dialogue when everybody was fully clothed and/or not killing someone. There weren't a lot of times when people weren't being violent and/or naked, so I had a basic idea what was going on. To sum up episode one, a young Octavian (who is J.C's nephew) likes spying on his mother in a bath, but he does not like spying on her when she is having cow's blood poured on her. He also doesn't like when people tell him what to do and he sure doesn't like when people touch him. He has no problem slapping women or beating people to death with 2 x 4's. Also in the episode, there were a bunch of people who were crucified, a couple of people were beheaded, and a bunch of blue naked dudes killed a bunch of guards and stole J. Caesar's beloved Golden Eagle. The blue naked dudes were apparently Spaniards. "They were blue and naked"..."Oh, that's the Spaniards." I'm sure episode 1 is just a brief introduction into the series, I'm sure I'll be able to understand more what is going on a little bit later.

After episode 1 ended I was a little bit disappointed because I'm not sure who a bunch of characters were, but now that a day has passed, I can see myself getting hooked on this show. And thankfully I haven't a clue what happened in Ancient Roman days, so I have no clue if Octavian is going to die or if he is going to become a Spaniard, so it should make for good drama. I need to blow my nose.