Subj : Re: Rome
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Jim Larson
Date : Mon Oct 03 2005 16:12:55

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Tyler Trafford wrote:

> Trouble wrote:
>> 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"
> 
>  "and their mothers"

It's the little extra touches that count.

-- 
Jim

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