spartacus tv series is fantastic
I recently watched a few episodes of Spartacus “Blood and Sand” and “Gods of Arena” series. The episodes are full of blood gore and madness, but never lose the plots. I really admire the acting, dialogues and the script which always keep up the pace in the main story.
Both the series have fitting and meaningful endings in their final episodes. The TV series is based on the Spartacus, who led a short-lived Gladiators uprising against Roman empire in 70 BC.
The “Blood and Sand” series is about Spartacus finally killing his master “Quintus Batiatus” and beginning of the gladiators uprising. The “Gods of Arena” is the prequel re-lived by Batiatus in his final moments.
The main protagonists in both series “Spartacus” and “Gynaceous” have similar style of fighting; Killing a opponent is matter of seconds with the right movements. This is contradictory to fighting style of another gladiator “Crixus”; Fight with honor and then go for kill.
Batiatus is killed by Spartacus with the help of other gladiators in the final episode of “Blood and Sand”. However, Batiatus shared the same feeling of victimization, as did Gladiators, from his Roman superiors. He gained trust and honor from his gladiators by sharing his luxuries with them. He even went to extent of finding out and bringing back Spartacus’s wife, but got her killed on arrival. He deceived the Gladiators by plotting a lot of criminal schemes, killing them or killing their families to detach them for his purpose. When gladiators found out his schemes, brought a fitting end to the “House of Batiatus” in “kill them all” style and starting the uprising.
In short, the series is fantastic, inspite of nudity and blood-gore. The upcoming seasons look to be very promising as Spartacus leads Gladiators against entire Roman army.
Also deepest condolences to “Andy Whitfield” who portrayed “Spartacus” , died recently from blood cancer.
