"I wanted to wrestle him in the water."

[lonelybrit]

Okay, so I've watched three things recently. I am going to attempt to take my own advice and only talk about the positive - more easy for some shows than others. Ahem.

House of Saddam - brilliant. Sublime. Superb. Bring out what you will, I loved the first ep. The writing, the acting. 10/10.

Gladiators - a really fun ep actually. Forget about the contenders, it's the Gladiators who are being whittled down, and I think it's pretty clear now who is the star of them all. *waves foam hand in the air* Atlas continues to be the endearingly slightly-useless blonde braincell of the men, Oblivion is oddly starting to grow on me, Spartan, er, I'm shallow enough that I find enough compensation in the pure visuals for the fact that he spent far too much time in the pool this week than was good for his ego. Pretty man in a skirt swimming strongly through the waters is not the nastiest sight in the world. It helped that both he and Tom were good sportsmen and very gracious in defeat, and you can't begrudge what was a fantastic win :)

At the other end of the scale... Oh Panther. What a gladiator.

Bonelickers - *bites tongue* I must remember my own rule. And to be fair, it probably did suffer from my watching it after House of Saddam. Er, the good:
x. It ended.
x. To some extent Matt Rippy. He was pretty, and his opening scene was brilliant in its sheer absurdity as the 'plot' kicked off with the usual mindblowing coincidences/strokes of good luck barely 3 minutes in.
x. The fact that, for once, they managed to make it to the credits without destroying vast swathes of priceless archaeology as they've done the previous eps.
x. Gillian's boss dude and his prancing around in the Roman gear. That was amusing.

Comments

[cyberducks.livejournal.com]

How much is Matt Rippy actually in this?

[lonelybrit]

In it a fair bit although not as continuously as the main guest star and the cast regulars. Basically his character is the one they're effectively trying to track down all episode, so he has his little B-storyline going-on whilst they attempt to be even vaguely competent. If you're fond of Matt Rippy, definitely worth watching for him :)

I can't say if it's just because it came after House of Saddam that this just felt so clunky to me. When not only is Matt Rippy struggling, but even Dolly is failing to raise the usual smile, things are bad.

But next week is Burn. I'll probably watch that and then maybe leave this show to career off the rails on its own.

[darkhavens.livejournal.com]

There's only one more after next week. How can you not want to see the grand finale? You should be taking bets on what priceless historical artifact they destroy this time. *g*

I was rather stunned by the fact that the little girl was the key to it all. That's going to go down really well in Iraq. :P

[lonelybrit]

This is very true. I think my main disappointment this week was that it just wasn't bonkers enough. Previous eps have had Rome torched due an illicit love affair between a Celt and a Roman, not to mention the accidental destruction of the cross itself. This week... nothing. Not really. I be miffed! ;)

Since it got a mention, maybe they'll wind up the season with the complete annihilation of stone henge?