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"Rome" Philippi (2007)
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18 February 2007
(Season 2, Episode 6)
Plot:
Cicero is finally undone by his duplicity in the form of Titus Pullo, acting upon Octavian's request to assassinate all supporters of Brutus in Rome...
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Disappointing.
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Cast
(Episode Cast overview, first billed only) | Kevin McKidd | ... | Lucius Vorenus |
 | Ray Stevenson | ... | Titus Pullo |
 | Polly Walker | ... | Atia of the Julii |
 | Tobias Menzies | ... | Marcus Junius Brutus |
 | Kerry Condon | ... | Octavia of the Julii |
 | Simon Woods | ... | Gaius Octavian Caesar |
 | Zuleikha Robinson | ... | Gaia |
| David Bamber | ... | Marcus Tullius Cicero |
| Guy Henry | ... | Cassius |
| Allen Leech | ... | Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa |
| Alex Wyndham | ... | Gaius Maecenas |
| Chiara Mastalli | ... | Eirene |
 | Camilla Rutherford | ... | Jocasta |
| Alan Williams | ... | Tevye |
 | Lee Boardman | ... | Timon |
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56 min | Argentina:60 min
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Factual errors: Brutus is shown as being killed by the soldiers of Octavius. In fact, he committed suicide.
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[On the field of Philippi, shortly before the battle begins]
Marcus Junius Brutus: Heavens, I entirely forgot! Today's your birthday, isn't it?
Cassius: Is it? I believe you're right.
Marcus Junius Brutus: [shaking Cassius' hand] Happy Birthday. Sorry there's no cake.
Cassius: Next year, eh? You bake me an extra big one.
Marcus Junius Brutus: I shan't forget.
Cassius: No cinnamon. Makes me sneeze.
[On the other side of the battlefield]
Mark Antony: If you need to urinate, now would be the time.
Gaius Octavian: I'm fine, thank you.
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Marcus Junius Brutus: Heavens, I entirely forgot! Today's your birthday, isn't it?
Cassius: Is it? I believe you're right.
Marcus Junius Brutus: [shaking Cassius' hand] Happy Birthday. Sorry there's no cake.
Cassius: Next year, eh? You bake me an extra big one.
Marcus Junius Brutus: I shan't forget.
Cassius: No cinnamon. Makes me sneeze.
[On the other side of the battlefield]
Mark Antony: If you need to urinate, now would be the time.
Gaius Octavian: I'm fine, thank you.
[...]
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Whilst I love 'Rome' as a series and have been able to live with the historical inaccuracies in the cause of creative licence up until this point their mauling of the battle of Philippi and rewriting of the deaths of Brutus and Cassius was a step too far. I mean if they were allowed to fictitiously go down heroically fighting why not have given Caesar a sword and let him take out a few conspirators before being overwhelmed? It's not as if their real deaths by suicide weren't dramatic/tragic/moving enough without ridiculously hollywoodising them and as for the battle itself, while I understand the constraints of cost even in show with such a healthy budget, a mere hint of it lasting two days during the first of which Octavion was essentially defeated by Brutus would have been nice.
Another problem I had was Pullo chatting nonchalantly to Cicero before murdering him, he came across as a completely unbalanced psychotic rather than the only mildly unbalanced psychotic we've all grown to love.
Great series, bad episode.