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This is the part of the series that doesn't come off very well: the final episodes where they were forced to crunch down the story because the series got cancelled.
This results in very odd pacing. Caesar's assassination took the better part of a season to set up. Octavian vs Antony should have been a full season on its own.
It's part of the historical record that Romans turned against Antony because of his relationship with the "foreign witch" Cleopatra, rejecting his wholesome (hah) Roman wife, Octavia in the process.
But that's all handled in an info dump via awkward dialogue when it should have been an evolving storyline. Just as Antony and Cleopatra's relationship should have been depicted evolving, not just "Hey there, let's jump into the sack and have two kids and be madly in love now."
Pullo and Gaia's storyline was similarly shortchanged. Once again, it was handled in dialogue rather than via unfolding events. Pullo should have learned the truth by discovering it, not by being told.
This results in very odd pacing. Caesar's assassination took the better part of a season to set up. Octavian vs Antony should have been a full season on its own.
It's part of the historical record that Romans turned against Antony because of his relationship with the "foreign witch" Cleopatra, rejecting his wholesome (hah) Roman wife, Octavia in the process.
But that's all handled in an info dump via awkward dialogue when it should have been an evolving storyline. Just as Antony and Cleopatra's relationship should have been depicted evolving, not just "Hey there, let's jump into the sack and have two kids and be madly in love now."
Pullo and Gaia's storyline was similarly shortchanged. Once again, it was handled in dialogue rather than via unfolding events. Pullo should have learned the truth by discovering it, not by being told.