10-20-2006, 10:39 AM
I think I enjoyed this episode the best so far. Perhaps Robert and Aitor et al are getting me more interested in the later empire.
(Robert, as a freedom loving Christian Dutchman your favorite speech by Churchill should be the one he gave on 18th June 1940 to the House of Commons. I think he had redeemed himself by then.)
Matthew wrote:
There were plenty of arrows flying around hitting faces, perhaps that is easier to do with cgi, someone even lost their head!
It is possible to see in the 300 Spartans a Persian immortal extra being hit in the face by a spear, he didn't look to pleased!
I think I agree with everyone else it would have been nice to see some cataphracts!
I wonder what RAT's very own Galla Placidia will think of next weeks imposter?
Graham.
(Robert, as a freedom loving Christian Dutchman your favorite speech by Churchill should be the one he gave on 18th June 1940 to the House of Commons. I think he had redeemed himself by then.)
Matthew wrote:
Quote:No Pila in earlier battle scenes either, if I recall correctly. Safety and insurance issues I would imagine!
There were plenty of arrows flying around hitting faces, perhaps that is easier to do with cgi, someone even lost their head!
It is possible to see in the 300 Spartans a Persian immortal extra being hit in the face by a spear, he didn't look to pleased!
I think I agree with everyone else it would have been nice to see some cataphracts!
I wonder what RAT's very own Galla Placidia will think of next weeks imposter?
Graham.
"Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream" Edgar Allan Poe.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
