Subj : Re: Rome To : alt.tv.farscape From : Trouble Date : Mon Oct 03 2005 10:49:40 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape Trouble wrote: > RR wrote: > >> Jim Larson wrote: > >>> Just what a teenage boy needs to hear from his mother to keep him >>> well balanced: "You will penetrate someone today or I will burn your >>> wretched books in the yard." > >> I'm so far behind on this show it's pathetic. What am I missing out >> on? Sounds like it's gone ~way~ camp - which isn't necessarily a bad >> thing. > > Its not camp, Atia just thinks her boy Octavian is too much boy, and > layabout bookworm, she wants him to be a man, real man, manly man, > because that's the only kind of thing she respects, and knows her > house attracts enemies and he won't be able to survive unless he > becomes a man. > Although if someone had quoted Pullo on hearing how much the whore would cost... you might have been thrown off the series altogether. "One thousand duckets/dubloons/whatever" "One thousand, I could have half the whores in Narro for that" "Were not in Narro... wherever that is" "She better fuck him like Hellen of Troy with her ass on fire, or I'll know the reason why" -- "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought." --Basho .