That was fucking epic smoothdick. I'd never seen anything from the Rome show before...guess I'll have to check it out now.
HBO makes the best shows. Rome is a BBC/HBO co-production, thus "BRITmy old friendS NOT SPEAKING PROPER CLASSICAL LATIN" or whatever these complaints are about is kind of silly.
Rome is only 2 seasons long too, it sadly was ended prematurely because HBO didn't think a show as expensive as Rome was worth it. Eventually they realized their mistake, because Rome was amazing, and still very popular in DVD sales and with critics. Game of Thrones was their attempt to return to this kind of epic storytelling, and has succeeded beyond their highest expectations.
Suffice to say, if you think Game of Thrones is good, you will not be disappointed by Rome. It follows the events of Caesar's Civil War to the rise of the Roman Empire, from the perspectives of the senators, Caesar, Cleopatra, Augustus, Marc Antony, etc along with the two dudes in that pro clip, regular soldiers in Caesar's elite personal legion. There you get to see family, military, and civic duties from a more common-man perspective that is lacking in lots of historical dramas. Tremendously entertaining and funny the entire time too, a true epic. A++ would watch again
