Spartacus - House of Ashur
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So long as it's good, I can wait.
dood she looks about 5ft tall, probably weighs about 50kg, but shes beating men in combat...Ermagurdz, there's a Black woman in it! Spartacus has gone woke
too much disbelief for my brain to watch this
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5' 9" and 60kg, apparently, although she may have bulked up for the role. Depends on how well they sell it I think - she needs to work on speed and skill rather than strength - but it's not like Spartacus has ever been a particularly grounded series so it gets a decent amount of leeway in my book.
in the trailer it looks like she has 0 muscles.
back in those days I bet everyone had muscles from doing house work and stuff even the women carrying heavy loads, stirring pots all day etc...
is she supposed to be a captured queen or something
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If you look at old pictures of farmers, or pictures of African tribespeople who still live hunter-gatherer lives, they aren't buff in the modern way: they look positively scrawny, in fact. The muscles you build from work just don't look like the muscles that you can build in the gym (and, in many cases, in the gym with chemical assistance). Hell, look at vintage photos of strongmen, body builders, and wrestlers and even they look nothing like modern beefcake. In terms of actual history, the bodies of the male gladiators in Spartacus are wildly unrealistic: apart from anything else, gladiators were actually usually pretty fat because the body fat meant they could take cuts and produce bloody spectacles without taking more serious injuries. The whole way gladiators fought was quite different from the modern idea of them fighting to the death all the time -- at the time that Spartacus fought the chance of death was about 10% per fight, according to the best historical estimates.
So, given that Spartacus is pretty much historical fantasy I don't particularly care about strict realism. If she's an interesting character, and they give her fun fight scenes then that's good enough for me. If she's arm wrestling Crixas and winning then that's going to feel stupid and detract from the show, but this has got a lot of the same writing and production team by the look of it so I have a lot of faith in them to deliver as well as they did before.
We shall see.
I can see the priorities here. haha
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Its a pity there was no other characters to do a spinoff. Ashur was pretty much the most hated character in the Spartacus TV Show..
I hope we get to see Laeta again, i loved her character.. not that i have a thing for Anna Hutchison at all...
I hope we get to see Laeta again, i loved her character.. not that i have a thing for Anna Hutchison at all...
Ermagurdz, there's a Black woman in it! Spartacus has gone woke
Na it will be
" Is it because I'm a woman "
But female gladiators did fight in the Arena, albeit this was rare and they were not trained like the new gen trailer shows
Warrior Women: Who Were the Gladiatrices of Ancient Rome?
The image of a gladiator in ancient Rome is traditionally male. However, female gladiators – known as ‘gladiatrices’ – existed and,...
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I figure that's what makes him a good choice.
Warrior Women: Who Were the Gladiatrices of Ancient Rome?
The image of a gladiator in ancient Rome is traditionally male. However, female gladiators – known as ‘gladiatrices’ – existed and,...
"Gladiatrices wore loincloths and fought bare-chested" -- I am disappointed by the lack of historical accuracy in that trailer.
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