08-09-2011, 05:49 PM
Quote:But thinking back, I'm not sure which ending was worse... :lol:Well, for me there’s no question about it – this one I would have preferred to the one they eventually used! I mean, think of it, in the book the eagle was buried under the floor of Marcus’ uncle’s villa in Calleva, after receiving the final ‘thumbs down’ (yeah I know, but that’s from the book) about the resurrection of the legion. The ditched ending seems a LOT closer to that than to the haughty dumping of the eagle on the desk of an arrogant governor (or whatever they made of him)!
Of course, the whole ‘last stand of the Biker Men’ in the stream was idiotic however you look at it, and the death of Guern the gazillionth break with the original text, but at least the eagle was ‘spared’ that Rambo-like ‘heroic’ dump on the desk of the army.
At least this ending was less horrid than the one they used (or the ‘kill the survivors’ ending of Centurion).
Robert Vermaat
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FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
