Spartacus: Gods of the Arena on Netflix

[catsclaw227]

For those that didn't get a chance to watch the Starz series Spartacus: Gods of the Arena, it is now available on Netflix for streaming.

Spartacus: Gods of the Arena

This is the prequel to Spartacus: Blood and Sand, the series run last year.

Spartacus: Blood and Sand

It is only 6 episodes long, but worth it. If you have the time, I recommend you watch the first series and then the prequel. It was great to watch how Crixus became the champion, Ashur got his limp, Oenomaus became Doctore, and how Solonius and Batiatus became enemies.

There's lots of sex and blood, and it has a 300 feel to it, but if you can get past the crazy in-your-face stuff, there is some real depth to it.

If you watched these, what did you think of them? What were your favorite parts?

 

[Jon_Dahl]

For some reason I liked Dagan the most. Oh man that Aramaic sounded sweet from his stiff lips! I'm such a sucker for exotic languages. The whole mini-series could've just depicted Dagan receiting vulgar poems and I still would've loved it. A show that has a "Maori speaking Aramaic with Kiwi accent" does have appeal to me.

The depth, the explosive dialogue and the soap opera elements were just great, but the violence and sex got really boring. Overall good entertainment.

 

[wolff96]

The depth, the explosive dialogue and the soap opera elements were just great, but the violence and sex got really boring. Overall good entertainment.

As a friend of mine and I were discussing last week, Spartacus is a very, very rare show. It's primarily based (and advertised) on sex and violence. If you took the sex away and massively toned down the violence -- it would be silly to have a Gladiator-based show with NONE, heh -- it would *still* be an amazingly good show.

And that's pretty awesome.

 

[catsclaw227]

As a friend of mine and I were discussing last week, Spartacus is a very, very rare show. It's primarily based (and advertised) on sex and violence. If you took the sex away and massively toned down the violence -- it would be silly to have a Gladiator-based show with NONE, heh -- it would *still* be an amazingly good show.

And that's pretty awesome.

Yes! And that is exactly what I felt too. Even if can't you let yourself enjoy all the blood and lust, just for fantasy sake, the stories are really strong, the acting excellent, and each episode had it's own strong, individual arc; even though the whole story has it's own overarching story.

 

[Mark CMG]

When this first came out, I gave it a chance and couldn't get into it. But I recently gave it a second chance and watched it the wrong way around, opting to view the six episode prequel series first. I enjoyed both thoroughly and hope that another season is produced (and also hope Whitfield's health improves!). The violence, blood, and sex is completely over the top and doesn't bother me in the least. I could see, however, how some (many?) would have trouble with it.