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This pretty much never happens, but this ep maxed out my angst tolerance. If this kept on for more than an ep, I'd have bailed because I couldn't take it. Our protagonist is going insane from all the violence he is doing and that is done to him and probably would be better off dead and...seriously. I think he is officially the most damaged TV protagonist I have ever seen. Yup, even more than Crichton.
I think ep 4 broke me a little - you see Spartacus descend slowly and inexorably into bloody insanity, with hallucinations and nightmares and despair (that nightmare of him finding his wife is horrifying, and he keeps having conversations with her, disassociating from the present), due to the things he is forced to do and that are done to him and it’s horrifying to watch, it’s horrifying to watch how someone so strong is destroyed by pieces - when he asks Batiatus to find his wife in exchange for dying in those pits, I can’t say it broke my heart because that phrase is inadequate to the horror I felt - it is someone who has nothing left and just wants to do his best to save his one precious person with his life, before he dies in the pits or goes so insane he will die before the pits claim him. Even though he knows how unenforceable any promise he will get is - that shows how little belief he has left in the value in his own life or hope. He wants to die not just to save his wife but to stop the pain, and was holding on only to protect her.
Seriously, it gutted me. Thank God for Varro. I am glad this storyline seems to have done, because I don’t think I could have borne more than one ep of this.
Now somebody give Spartacus a nuke - I want him to take these people out. Now.
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OK, that was so screwed up, I have no words. Naevia has to stand guard and see Crixus be made to have sex with Lucretia (who seriously freaks me out 10x more than her husband). Hello there, Theater of Supreme Dysfunction! I think my eyes just bugged out of my head.Also, that cannot be good for his back. Plus, Lucretia ended up with Naevia’s necklace. Boooo!!! Clearly compelled regifting is popular with Team Evil.
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But this makes me so giddy! Almost as much as Naevia makes Crixus giddy. Even if this is going to end up so badly for them, I can tell.
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And now, have some insanity and pain.
This pretty much never happens, but this ep maxed out my angst tolerance. If this kept on for more than an ep, I'd have bailed because I couldn't take it. Our protagonist is going insane from all the violence he is doing and that is done to him and probably would be better off dead and...seriously. I think he is officially the most damaged TV protagonist I have ever seen. Yup, even more than Crichton.
I think ep 4 broke me a little - you see Spartacus descend slowly and inexorably into bloody insanity, with hallucinations and nightmares and despair (that nightmare of him finding his wife is horrifying, and he keeps having conversations with her, disassociating from the present), due to the things he is forced to do and that are done to him and it’s horrifying to watch, it’s horrifying to watch how someone so strong is destroyed by pieces - when he asks Batiatus to find his wife in exchange for dying in those pits, I can’t say it broke my heart because that phrase is inadequate to the horror I felt - it is someone who has nothing left and just wants to do his best to save his one precious person with his life, before he dies in the pits or goes so insane he will die before the pits claim him. Even though he knows how unenforceable any promise he will get is - that shows how little belief he has left in the value in his own life or hope. He wants to die not just to save his wife but to stop the pain, and was holding on only to protect her.
Seriously, it gutted me. Thank God for Varro. I am glad this storyline seems to have done, because I don’t think I could have borne more than one ep of this.
Now somebody give Spartacus a nuke - I want him to take these people out. Now.
OK, that was so screwed up, I have no words. Naevia has to stand guard and see Crixus be made to have sex with Lucretia (who seriously freaks me out 10x more than her husband). Hello there, Theater of Supreme Dysfunction! I think my eyes just bugged out of my head.
But this makes me so giddy! Almost as much as Naevia makes Crixus giddy. Even if this is going to end up so badly for them, I can tell.
