Okay, so I know I’m a bit late to the party, but as seems to be the case A LOT, I was recording this show and then never managed to get caught up with it, so now I’m devouring it via Netflix streaming.
WOOOOOOOO!!!!
Blood, guts, harsh language, full frontal male nudity! YEAH! Love the dialogue. Love the visuals. Love so much about it!
But one thing.
I totally get the visual appeal of the gladiators. I mean, hello, hotbodies! But the smell! OMG they must’ve smelled SO BAD!!!!! And please, I know that people did smell bad back then, but those Roman ladies bathed in milk, they used perfume, they at least bathed. Those gladiators, are all sweaty and dirty and bloody and blech!
So, while I’m thoroughly enjoying the show, loving it, in fact…I just can’t get behind all this “OMG I MUST TO MAKE TEH MONKEYLOVE WITH TEH CHAMPION!” I sort of just laugh and crinkle my nose when the ladies get all hotsy totsy for the gladiators.
Though I mean, yeah, I get it. They’re hot. But stinky!!!!
I’d make mine wash first.
M
August 17th, 2010 at 10:40 am · Link
There’s times when knowing too much about the grottier side of history, really spoils ones fun.
Armour smells SO bad. The leather padding under armour reeks to high heaven. No wonder ‘marriage by abduction’ used to happen.
August 17th, 2010 at 2:54 pm · Link
Sal, ewwwww!!!!! *HURK*
August 17th, 2010 at 1:19 pm · Link
I think that so often. Without even thinking about armour and stinky, sweaty fighting, think of people traveling on horses. No toothbrushes, no bathes, horsey smell, and the women don’t wash their hair for days. Yuch.
August 17th, 2010 at 2:54 pm · Link
Sue, girl, YES. though I guess if everyone smelled bad, nobody noticed?
August 17th, 2010 at 3:58 pm · Link
Well in Spartacus B&S remember when he has to go with the Roman woman they did pamper him up. I don’t get what the scrapping thing they did in the bath did?
August 18th, 2010 at 3:46 am · Link
@Angel – the Romans didn’t have soap. Their bath comprised some time in a steam room to get a nice sweat up, then a full body massage from a slave using olive oil mixed with essential oils to the customers preference, which was scraped off using that blunt curved metal blade. It does actually condition the skin really well and is a lot of fun to work into Roman-based historical novels!
The Celts invented soap, bless ‘em. Though I wonder who first thought “I’ll just mix this animal fat with wood ash, rub it all over my skin and jump in the brook to see what happe … ooh bubbles!”
August 18th, 2010 at 9:51 pm · Link
Sal: ewwwww! :0)