My dysfunctional OTP moves further down its path, Team Evil loses a member (yay!), and I end up wondering why Batiatus and Lucrezia don't just set up a brothel instead of a gladiatorial school? They might as well, seeing they do that sort of thing more often than actually showing off their gladiators' fighter skills and with little result.
Also, I don't mind nudity and sex and whatever, but this is the first ep I thought overdid it. Now that the makers got an orgy out of their system, let's hope they keep to one orgy per season thing.
Because Crixus.
I love that you see Gannicus simmer with rage this whole episode. You know, that's another problem with turning your place into bordello, dudes - it's one thing if you run the place as a fair if homicidal gymnasium. It's another if you turn your honed killing weapons into sex slaves and generally throw the entire training/performing regimen off-kilter.
Those two totally kill me because they both know they shouldn't be attracted to each other but they are.
And when she is making love with Oenamaus, she is picturing it with Gannicus. Everybody is ending up dead, aren't they?
That was pretty much the most awesome thing ever - when he goes on to fight like a berserker, totalling his opponent, and she is watching and he is watching if she is watching. Why do I ship doomed OTPs, why?
First off, I love Barca. Why do I love any character in this show? They are all going to die gruesomely, aren't they? Secondly, I love this scene with Barca and Crixus - in his first bout, Crixus killed Barca's partner, but the oddly appropriate bonding they have here is pretty amazing. (Also, finally Crixus' initial freezing over Averni-style spears is explained seeing they offed his family when he was too young to know how to fight them. Thanks, backstory!) Also, I know I keep saying it, but the actor for Crixus is ridiculously intense.
Gaia gets her head bashed in by Tullius but whatever - one member of Team Evil down, is all I think. Seeing she was the Grand Mistress of the Rape Olympics, permit me not to care.
OTP Crack. I swear!!!!!! (I do think Gannicus wouldn't push it as much if his masters didn't force him to lose to Tullius and get cut all over just for the sake of 'politeness' and so his control is not at its best.)
And in the 'Mousie's brain goes into bizarre territory' note - seeing the amount of male frontal nudity in this, do their casting calls specify circumcized guys need not apply or do they give them some sort of prosthetic or similar? Honestly, I am curious.