Subj : Re: Rome
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Ken McElhaney
Date : Sat Oct 15 2005 08:51:09

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape


Tyler Trafford wrote:
> Ken McElhaney wrote:
> > rstapp wrote:
> >
> >> It was also a good way to explain to the audience how Pompey lost the
> >> battle since what showed on the screen was pitiful and would probably
> >> have been better if it hadn't shown anything at all.
> >
> > Ah, budget limitations. Still, Pompey's situation needed no further
> > explaination. He was abandoned by his compatriots, no further
> > "digging" was needed.
>
> I think I prefer the way they handled the battle.  The "in the trenches"
> view would have looked much like what we saw in the first episode
> (probably less interesting, since both sides would be doing that
> line-advance line-retreat rotating thing), and the strategy &
> troop-movement view would have been nothing more than what Pompey was
> able to sum up by drawing in the sand.

And he could've related the "battle" story to anyone...

> Washing up on Pompey's beach: probably just filler + Vorenus character
> moment.

I call it a "contrivance", but unnecessary filler is also appropriate.

I don't know if USA Today's Robert Bianco & I were seperated at birth,
but yesterday his column echoed my complaints about the series quite
nicely;
http://tinyurl.com/c6b4t

Ken - who's looking forward to Cleo's wig to see if it is as bad as the
photos suggest.

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