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Originally posted by ironweed
Ok. Here goes:
Lucius Vorinus, having become a popular hero after rescuing Pullo from the arena, is made a Senator by Caesar (as a part of Caesar's plan to stack the Senate with Kelts, Gauls and Plebs loyal to him). Caesar also thinks having such a legendary fighter around will discourage Cicero and the little band of plotters he knows are out to get him. Pullo wakes up in a hospital outside Rome, finds out he's famous and goes back to the city in search of poon. He collapses halfway there and ends up a Vorinus's house, where Irenie (the freed slavegirl whose boyfriend Pullo killed) nearly slits his throat -- but can't bring herself to do it (which struck me as slightly bullshit). Pullo sets out trying to win Irenie back over.
Brutus, Cicero and the other plotters are now ready to strike, but don't want to kill Vorinus due to his popularity. Then Brutus's maw (Servilia) remembers that her lesbian girl toy told her Vorinus's wife is a hobag slut and her dastardly plan is hatched. Servilia invites Attia to her house on the day that Caesar assembles the new Senate for the first time and has the pleasure of explaining what is happening while it's still going on. She tells Attia she will make her suffer, etc., and it's a bitch-off we haven't seen since the glory days of Dynasty.
Meanwhile, as Caesar, Vorinus and the entourage are making their way through the forum to the Senate, Servilia's slave calls out to Vorinus and whispers in his ear. His brown darkens (he's got a very good brow for darkening) and he strides off home before Caesar realizes he's gone. Caesar enters the Senate and is set upon by the plotters, with Brutus the last, reluctant stabber. Sic semper etc. Caesar does a bit of twitching and that's that.
Back at Vorinus's house, he confronts his wife in a rage and she admits the dirty deed. Vorinus slumps at the table, toying with a breadknife. Kill her? Kill himself? Kill the kids, too? His wife, seeing the state he's in, backs slowly to the balcony rail and tells him not to blame the boy before pitching herself over backwards and breaking her neck in the courtyard below. Vorinus runs to her and clutches her lifeless body, sobbing as the boy looks on. And that's that for the Vorinus family.
Last scene is Pullo and Irenie walking through the countryside hand in hand, which struck me as utter and complete bullshit. The finale was a bit of letdown all told, except for the suicide bit, which I did not see coming. But then I'm slow.
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Well said. I agree with you on the bullshit part, the bitchfest part, and the didn't see it coming part, the last of which broke my heart. I thought that the guy who played Caesar did a pretty good job dying.
I should have watched Curb before going to sleep because it might have lightened my mood; I had the worst nightmare of my life last night and I attribute it to the violence of
Rome and realizing that I didn't know what worrying was until about month ago.
