A week later, and the episode has been on my mind since. I was seriously considering not watching the finale, because who wants to see all that badness happen? But now that it’s over, I think it’s one of the more satisfying season finales I’ve ever seen.
Spartacus leaping into battle, I actually pumped my fist, clapped, and said, “YEAH!”
When Crassius broke out that grab-the-sword movie, I died a little inside. Like, “NO, THIS CAN’T BE IT!”
And the credits thing at the end, so great. The show not only killed dozens of good characters, but always came up with worthy replacements.
Liam Mac did a great job stepping into the role of Spartacus. Now that his second season is over, when I look at him & the late great Mr. Whitfield side-to-side, I don’t see one as better.
Steven S. DeKnight’s twitter feed has been a steady stream of readable tidbits. Plenty of amazingly dumb questions and complaints from viewers, but it’s worth catching up:
https://twitter.com/stevendeknight
If hell exists in the Sparta-verse, I hope Ashur is the demon in charge of Tiberius.
