Isolde's Idle Thoughts
Wanderer. Lost Girl. Horror Freak. Hazardous Drinker. Sometimes I write. I believe in mult-fandoms and multi-ships.
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I’M GOING TO HAVE TO START MENTALLY PREPARING MYSELF NOW FOR AGRON’S DEATH … I’M ALSO GOING TO BE VERY DRUNK THROUGH EACH AND EVERY EPISODE CAUSE IT’S THE ONLY WAY TO DEAL
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Link reblogged from Crimson Hall
Spartacus’ final battle is coming sooner than you think.
Starz is set to announce that the next season of its historical drama Spartacus will mark the show’s final outing.
The upside: Creator Steven S. DeKnight promises the remaining episodes will be spectacular (see the final season poster here). “This season is bigger than anything we’ve attempted,” DeKnight says. “The scope and scale is just amazing. We’re dealing with massive battles between thousands of people. We hope to leave people feel satisfied.”
DeKnight says he’s been 90 percent certain for months that the upcoming third season — subtitled “War of the Damned” — would be the last for Spartacus. Creatively, the writer-producer assures that the timing will result in a strong tale. The historical foundation for the rebel leader’s journey, he says, lends itself to wrapping up the show sooner rather than later.
“Looking at the story in the history books, it’s wave after wave of Roman senators going after Spartacus who are defeated until [Roman general Marcus Crassus] comes in,” DeKnight says. “So let’s pick out the most interesting moments in this struggle and lay out a clear narrative for Spartacus and his rebellion. I wanted to lay out a strong forward narrative with a strong antagonist.”Spartacus has had a wild and difficult run since it launched on Starz two years ago. The show’s first season was a phenomenon. Its violent comic-book imagery may have been inspired by the hit film 300, but Spartacus‘ operatic computer-assisted visual style and profanely quotable Shakespean-esque dialogue quickly established the show as singularly unique. Ratings started modest, then climbed with nearly every episode, eventually hitting about 6 million viewers when including all encore airings and viewing platforms.
Tragedy struck after the first season when the show’s breakout star Andy Whitfield was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Pre-production on season two was halted. A short-order prequel sans Whitfield, Gods of the Arena, kept the show functioning while producers and the network hoped for the actor’s recovery. Eventually, the role of Spartacus was turned over to newcomer Liam McIntyre, who led the show’s recent second season.
“This show has always been a challenge,” DeKnight says. “I’m particularly thankful to Starz. Any other network, if the show’s lead actor had fallen ill and eventually passed away, they would have canceled the show. Starz felt like we owed it to the audience and to Andy to finish the tale.”
In the most recent season, Spartacus led his rebel band of slaves to victory against the Romans at Mt. Vesuvius and defeated his longtime nemesis Gaius Claudius Glaber. As first reported on EW.com, the new season adds Todd Lasance as an ambitious young Julius Caesar and Simon Merrells as Crassus.
DeKnight says Crassus will introduce a truly formidable enemy to help drive next year’s drama. “Crassus is kind of like the Roman boogieman we’ve been talking about for the last three seasons,” he says. “We meet him in episode one and you totally get that this is a guy who — maybe he can’t equal Spartacus in a one-on-one fight, but he’s just as shrewd and smart and dangerous as Spartacus.”
Spartacus will leave behind a legacy of having stretched the boundaries of series television, between expanding the use of green-screen technology (the show has never shot one frame outdoors) and proving hard-R sex and violence can draw an audience when mixed with compelling storytelling. There was, and remains, nothing quite like the show on TV.
“I would much rather end a series with the audience wanting more than limping to the finish line, with only the die-hard fans sticking around for the wrap up,” DeKnight says. “We want to make the 10 best episodes we can. I can’t wait for everybody to see it.”
THIS IS HORRIBLE NEWS TO WAKE UP TO. TEN EPISODES AND THEN NO MORE AGRON? NO MORE NASIR? NO MORE MALE ON MALE LOVING AND NUDITY AND AWESOME SLO-MO AND GORY VIOLENCE???? NO MORE GANNICUS AND HIS FABULOUS HAIR OR CRIXUS IN LOVE? NO MORE AGRON??
I REPEAT - NO MORE AGRON??????
*WEEPS BUCKETS*
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Photoset reblogged from Chasing the endless path
Apparently this is an actual thing Jeremy Renner does to warm up for a scene. Tom Cruise saw him doing it and made the director put it in the movie.
Oh, and reblobbing for ASS.
(Source: lawyerupasshole)
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Post reblogged from me & my fangirlism
I did comment kinda a lot in the begging but now i don’t . B/c well i given up i guess.
Don’t give up - you will get a tweet back. Have faith.
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Photoset reblogged from Remnants Of Nonsense
SO this just happened ^^^ (x)
Dan plz, I don’t want to know about your sexapades if I am not the one getting it, thank you very muchI don’t wanna know that sort of thing… my poor heart :(
I feel the same way. don’t want to know about “scoring a chick”
Haha, of course he’s scoring chicks! He’s a good-looking, single guy, so more power to him. The only thing I’m jealous of is that he’s having sex while I’m not. Boo.
If he wasn’t scoring…I would be worried … It means he’s a healthy virile male…and it feeds my delusions of possibilities.
I like to think that one day I might possibly have a chance … to be scored with
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Photoset reblogged from
best first kiss ever ♥
FOREVER REBLOG!
Oh and because I didn’t mention this on my last tumblr reblog post of doom - look at how he’s bending over to get to Nasir’s height. He’s basically folding himself in two, people! I don’t know why, but I find that insanely sweet and hot
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Post reblogged from My Shadow Gallery
My favourite Nagron moment - their first kiss. This is why I started to watch Spartacus. And their happy meeting… I just love them.
Ahem, it’s too big for Tumblr. I just can’t make gifs small enough for Tumblr. :D It’s hosted by Photobucket.
And here only the first kiss (300 px wide and in color). Enjoy. ;)
This kiss is the entire reason I got into this show. It appeared on my tumblr dash and I got curious about the pretty boys kissing. And it’s such a sweet, almost tentative kiss too. I wanted to know the backstory behind it - especially Nasir’s reaction to it because he seemed to almost be conflicted about it.
Now I understand, of course. But back then it was a mystery. I started following Nagron tags and in doing so, inadvertently started following Season 2 of Spartacus. And after reading so many “THIS SHOW IS THE BEST THING EVER” posts, I felt like I had to find out for myself.
Funny thing is, when I first saw these gifs, I was completely focused on Nasir. I found him absolutely beautiful and my eyes were pretty much on him. Then I was like, “well, lets look at the other guy more closely.” And I did, and even though I thought he was alright, he wasn’t really doing it for me. Just a generic, sort of cute, white guy.
BOY, HAVE MY FEELINGS CHANGED! LOL. I think a huge part of that change is basically falling in love with Dan himself through his twitter. He does himself all kinds of favors by being as adorable as he is and talking to fans like that. His personality won me over and pretty soon that translated into loving, and lusting for, his character.
Now, of course, I’m all Dan, all the time. lol
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Post reblogged from My Shadow Gallery
My favourite Nagron moment - their first kiss. This is why I started to watch Spartacus. And their happy meeting… I just love them.
Ahem, it’s too big for Tumblr. I just can’t make gifs small enough for Tumblr. :D It’s hosted by Photobucket.
And here only the first kiss (300 px wide and in color). Enjoy. ;)
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Photo reblogged from To set eyes again upon your heart,
The way he look at Nasir…It’s like his whole world is on the verge of disappearing in front of his eyes…..again :(
(Source: ljinnq)
